Legal history

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

Looks at the early development of the federal income tax in the United States.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two 'Essays on Legal History' offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us.

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

The Criminal Justice System: An Introduction, Fifth Edition incorporates the latest developments in the field while retaining the basic organization of previous editions which made this textbook so popular.

An accessible, comprehensive, and high quality companion to legal philosophy written by a stellar cast of international contributors.

Almost 80 years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Europe and Latin America.

This book explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the west through historical and multidisciplinary frameworks, examining both how the criminal corpse was viewed as a repository of power and how it held significant cultural meaning as material relic.

Islamic legal theory (usA l al-fiqh) is literally regarded as 'the roots of the law' whilst Islamic jurists consider it to be the basis of Islamic jurisprudence and thus an essential aspect of Islamic law.

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone community.

Known as the "e;Great Dissenter,"e; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

]State trials reveal much about a nation's insecurities and shed light on important themes in political, constitutional, and legal history.

Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror examines the judicial response to human rights claims arising from the Bush Administration's war on terror.

Das römische Recht kennt Ersatzklagen eines Geschädigten nicht allein gegen dessen Schädiger, sondern in zahlreichen Fällen auch gegen Dritte, an die infolge der Schädigung ein Vorteil gelangt ist.

Emmanuelle Jouannet explores the concept of international law from the European Enlightenment to the post-Cold War world.

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

Crime in England 1688-1815 covers the 'long' eighteenth century, a period which saw huge and far-reaching changes in criminal justice history.

This English translation makes available to anglophone readers a modern classic of German tort theory.

Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period.

The essays in this volume in honour of Martin Brett address issues relating to the compilation and transmission of canon law collections, the role of bishops in their dissemination, as well as the interpretation and use of law in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

This ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR.

In Signposts, Sally E.

In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "e;We must not be afraid to be free.

McCulloch v.

The world is poised for another important transition.

Reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body.

Among the most infamous U.

On the 11th of March 2011, an earthquake registering 9.

Of all the written portraits of the delegates who attended the Federal Convention of 1787, few are as complete and compelling as those penned by William Pierce Jr.

First published in 1993, Crimes of Style investigates the politics of culture and crime through an in-depth case study of graffiti in Denver and the official response to it.

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years.

First Published in 1985.

In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760-1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change.

Each society that consumes alcohol has its own unique drinking culture, and each society deals with the drunken products of that culture in particular ways.

A history of the American international lawyers who strove to establish a world without war through their scholarship and activities.

This prize-winning book, first published in 1991, provides a detailed legal account of the development of the UK Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989.

From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada.

Germany has long been at the centre of European debates surrounding the modern role of national constitutional law and its relationship with EU law.

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and Marxist political thought.

This book outlines how odious debts are not legally binding under international or domestic law, contrary to widely held legal opinion.

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television.

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

In this volume, ownership is defined as the simple fact of being able to describe something as 'mine' or 'yours', and property is distinguished as the discursive field which allows the articulation of attendant rights, relationships, and obligations.

The early 21st century saw better prison conditions and a lower imprisonment rate however public worry over supposed increasing violent crime as perpetuated by the media in the 1930's led to a return to harsher sentences and fuller prisons.

In the immediate aftermath of the armistice that ended the First World War, the Allied nations of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to put the fallen German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial, in what would be the first ever international criminal tribunal.