Legal history

Die hier vorgelegte Version des Glossars ist eine gering präedierte, buchstaben- und zeilengenaue digitale Volltextversion (pdf und xml) der Druckausgabe von 1895.

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel's Droit des gens (1758).

This is a comprehensive reference book on the subject of forensic mental health, looking at what forensic mental health is and its assessment, management and treatment.

Timely analysis of the rule of law and extradition in Hong Kong''s history through the legal case of Ho Chi Minh.

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

Corrections in the Community, Seventh Edition, examines the current state of community corrections and proposes an evidence-based approach to making programs more effective.

These cases, notes and statutes on Canadian Land Law comprise the first comprehensive collection on material from all the common law Provinces and bring together in an orderly fashion material which will not only be useful to the law student but will also provide the practising lawyer with a broad range of selected authorities, and provide him at the same times with analytical and critical approaches to problems falling within the limits of the author's treatment of the subject.

The history of criminal justice in the U.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law?

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences.

This volume follows one man's revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina's death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education.

In 1776, Thomas Paine declared the end of royal rule in the United States.

This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

Volume III of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales draws on archival sources and individual accounts to offer a history of penal policymaking in England and Wales between 1959 and 1997.

Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others?

«Ich höre 12 Stunden Pandekten bei Bruns», so schreibt 1870 der 24-jährige Eugen Huber nach Hause und rechtfertigt seine Grundlagenstudien im römischen Recht.

In The Arizona State Constitution, John D.

This book explores the challenges of transitional justice in West Africa, specifically how countries in the region have dealt with transitional justice problems in the last 30 years (1990-2020), and how they have managed the process.

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness.

A fascinating study of how elite white men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts incorporated the ethos of politeness into the law of criminal speech.

Reissuing seven works originally published between 1940 and 1997, this collection spans the time in which Criminology has been a recognised academic discipline.

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association.

The History, Evolution, and Current State of Female Offenders: Recommendations for Advancing the Field summarizes what the field has learned about females and crime; details the status of legislation and criminological research focused on female criminality; and provides recommendations for advancing the field.

What is the real meaning of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'?

The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation recalls Davis' early upbringing and education on two Indian reservations.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

The "e;Long Middle Ages"e; indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period.

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.

Esta obra, dividida en seis tomos, desarrolla la historia del derecho en Guatemala desde una visión analítica del jurista, es decir, a través de una lectura crítica de las normas jurídicas decretadas en el país en relación con el contexto histórico (estructuras sociales, políticas y económicas) y los procesos específicos circundantes al momento de su emisión.

Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools.

This book presents a comprehensive account of past and present efforts to introduce the jury system in Japan.

The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment.

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law.

In the 2016 Hamlyn Lectures, Chief Justice of New Zealand, Dame Sian Elias critiques recent changes in criminal justice systems.

The punitive prison currently dominates the practice of Anglo-American criminal justice, stigmatising its victims as perpetual 'offenders' and failing to change a majority of them for the better.

Das Buch wendet sich nicht allein an Studenten mit ausgeprägten historischen Interessen, sondern an die Rechtsstudentinnen und Rechtsstudenten überhaupt.

This book systematically explores the historical development, connotation, characteristics and cultural resources of Chinese rule of law path based on the combination theory and practice.

This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China.

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This volume examines the role of League of Nations committees, particularly the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) in shaping the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).