Legal history

Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis.

This is the fifth and final volume in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

This concise book is an introduction to the role of international law in international relations.

In A Doubtful and Perilous Experiment: Advisory Opinions, State Constitutions, and Judicial Supremacy, author Mel A.

This volume explores the legal history of migration and the role played by legal theories, case law, practices, customary laws, and legislations in shaping and governing mobility between the 19th century and the Second World War.

In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most basically that of promise, most broadly the capitalist market order.

For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence.

First published in 1805, this work summarises the vast array of laws at the time on the relief of the poor in Great Britain.

This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application.

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

This edited collection presents an interesting and original series of essays on the roles of principle and pragmatism in Roman private law.

The second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sozialistisches Recht und Wissenschaft" verfügbar.

Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa.

The European Court of Human Rights has long held unparalleled sway over questions of human rights violations across continental Europe, Britain, and beyond.

Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens'' juridical discourse.

The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe.

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world.

Originally published in 1973 The Law Courts of Medieval England looks at law courts as the most developed institutions existing in the medieval times.

This is a history-though, intentionally, a brief history-of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.

An analysis of selective aspects of India's constitutional identity, this book provides an analytical account of the changing and changed texture of India's constitutional identity bearing in mind the historical context in which it is articulated.

An original analysis and in-depth historical examination of criminal responsibility in the context of Australian criminal law.

This, the second of two volumes of Liberty and Union, is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century to the most recent decisions of the Supreme Court on contemporary constitutional issues.

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E.

The extraordinary recent increase in rates of cohabitation and non-marital birth presents a major challenge to traditional family law principles, and the legal rules governing cohabitation are thus among the most hotly contested areas of family law and policy today.

Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.

Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala examines social relations in colonial Guatemala through the lens of incest.

Originally published in English in 1976, this book shed new light upon a dark aspect of a dark age in the social history of Europe.

This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework.

This is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the history of customary law in Hungary, from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries.

This is a study of the history and function of the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, the Sacra Romana Rota, from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences?

"e;A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?

Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century.

This book provides a thorough introduction to Roman property law by means of "e;cases,"e; consisting of brief excerpts from Roman juristic sources in the original Latin with accompanying English translations.

In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that 'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they must also have the right to take their seats in government'.

Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard.

This book explores the evolution of the shareholder in post-war Britain within the context of changing legal, political, economic, and social conditions.

The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy.

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing body of work on the history of British and European juvenile delinquency.

An eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address, impeccable social credentials, and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians, U.

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

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

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

This book celebrates the scholarship of Richard Baxter, former Judge of the International Court of Justice and former Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format.