Jurisprudence and general issues

This volume offers a comprehensive examination of Hans Kelsen's legal and political philosophy, focusing on four central themes.

First published in 1980, but then out of print for several years, this collection, together with The History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages, presents a series of fundamental articles by the acknowledged master of medieval canon law studies.

In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth.

The verdict is in: this is the must-have resource for aspiring paralegals everywhere!

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826.

One of the greatest business philosophers of all time, Mr Jim Rohn, had this to say about the law: "e;Everyone needs to know a little law; you don't have to be a lawyer, but you do need to know the basics.

In recent years, legal studies courses have increased the focus on contemporary social issues as part of the curriculum.

State Trials, Volume I (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with treason and the freedom of press gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826.

This book analyses constitutional conventions as a powerful but largely neglected framework for studying the law and politics of constitutions.

This book represents a unique contribution to comparative legal studies by presenting the results of an empirical research project on the use of foreign precedents in constitutional interpretation in 31 jurisdictions worldwide.

The papers collected in this volume fall into three main groups.

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union.

This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg showed a definite penchant for stupidity while on the Supreme Court.

This book brings together leading experts in the fields of insurance and the law of obligations to consider how insurance law is attempting to deal with emerging risks.

Based on the texts of traditional Chinese dramas such as The Orphan of Zhao, Liang Shangbo and Zhu Yingtai, The Injustice to Dou E, and The Fifteen Strings of Cash, the book aims to broaden the scope of law and literature in China.

This volume presents a multidimensional analysis of the current operational law - both constitutional and customary - in Northeast India.

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal.

This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices.

This book challenges the common view that the Russian Constitution is a sham or a reflection of Russia's authoritarian past.

This book's essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law.