Legal History 100

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea ……続きを見る

Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, hom……続きを見る

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision. In 1882, Elmer Palmer was convicted of poisoning his grandfather……続きを見る

Las Siete Partidas es una obra monumental que compila la legislación y doctrina jurídica del Reino de Castilla en el siglo XIII, escrita por Alfonso X el Sabio. Este texto, organizado en siete parte……続きを見る

Ancient Law is a legal treatise by Henry James Sumner Maine. It dives into the development of ancient Roman laws, bridging the ancient to the modern in a logical manner. 続きを見る

The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 6) is a comprehensive account of one of history's pivotal moments, documenting the proceedings that addressed the atrocities committed during ……続きを見る

The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 8) offers an exhaustive and meticulously documented account of the landmark legal proceedings held after World War II, which sought justice fo……続きを見る

In "The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports," Charles Grolleau meticulously reconstructs the dramatic court proceedings of one of literature's most notorious figures. This work is not m……続きを見る

The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 4) serves as an invaluable compendium of the landmark legal proceedings that marked a defining moment in international law and human rights. T……続きを見る

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities. It examines the under-researched aspect of whether and h……続きを見る

This book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, which are otherwise typically considered di……続きを見る

Este libro propone el análisis distributivo como alternativa para pensar el problema de la participación del derecho en la configuración del mundo y, en particular, en el papel del derecho frente a ……続きを見る

"La presente se trata de una obra de objetivo eminentemente docente, que intenta construir una historia del Derecho para el período conocido, a grandes rasgos, como la antigüedad, esto es, desde la ……続きを見る

Las dictaduras no rehúyen el Derecho. Siempre lo han utilizado. Emulando otros ejemplos de los totalitarismos europeos, la dictadura franquista no fue una excepción. Se dotó de un sistema institucio……続きを見る

Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750 is the definitive source book on the foundations of English public law. A companion to Baker and Milsom's Sources of English Legal History: Priva……続きを見る

This book traces the life and legacy of a German Jewish lawyer, F A Mann, who moved to the UK in 1933 fleeing racial persecution from Germany, and later became one of the best-known legal minds of h……続きを見る

Covering the precolonial period to the present, The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of Latin American law, revealing the vast commonal……続きを見る

Institutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism. It documents how the manipulation of truth and knowledge facilitated col……続きを見る

Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront……続きを見る

"The Commentaries on the Laws of England" is an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765–……続きを見る

Honorable Mention: Best First book in the History of Religions Responding to Vine Deloria, Jr.’s call for all people to “become involved” in the struggle to protect Indigenous sacred sites, Dana Llo……続きを見る

In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the ……続きを見る

Goldwater v. Carter tells the story of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld President James Earl Carter’s unilateral decision to nullify the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of ……続きを見る

Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of America’s foremost legal historiansーKermit Hall and Melvin Urofskyーprovide a compact and highly readable updati……続きを見る

In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Court’s controversial and much-debated stanc……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law sheds light on the relationship between the two fields and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected w……続きを見る

Silver Gavel Award, Honorable Mention Scribes Merit Award In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line of gr……続きを見る

While Brown v. Board of Education remains much more famous, Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947) was actually the first case in which segregation in education was successfully challenged in ……続きを見る

In a free society where it often seems nothing is sacred, many feel that one thing at least should be: that despite constitutional guarantees of free speech, it should be illegal to desecrate the Am……続きを見る

Este livro defende um conceito de objetividade que integre o fenômeno jurídico em sua existência empírica como um elemento conceitualmente necessário, mas não suficiente. O conceito de objetividade ……続きを見る