著者:Justin Crowe
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2012年03月25日
How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance? How did the Supreme Court move from political irrelevance to political centrality? ……続きを見る
著者:Barrington Walker
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. ;This collection demonstrates that the social h……続きを見る
著者:Michael Burger
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in thirteenth-century England. Bishops had few effective avenues available to them for ……続きを見る
For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism……続きを見る
著者:Jeffory Clymer
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls fo……続きを見る
著者:Kevin Morgan
出版社: Hardie Grant Books
発売日: 2012年05月01日
In the early morning of New Year's Eve 1921, 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's naked body was found in Gun Alley, a dead-end Melbourne lane. She had been raped and strangled. In an atmosphere of public f……続きを見る
著者:Lester Brickman
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book is a broad and deep inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance. Contingency fees are the way pers……続きを見る
著者:Randall Lesaffer
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The rediscovery of Roman law and the emergence of classical canon law around AD 1100 marked the beginnings of the civil law tradition in Europe. Between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, a highl……続きを見る
Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the……続きを見る
著者:Stephen M. Engel
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Politicians have long questioned, or even been openly hostile to, the legitimacy of judicial authority, but that authority seems to have become more secure over time. What explains the recurrence of……続きを見る
著者:Niklas Luhmann
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年10月30日
Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human ……続きを見る
From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme Court
For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has be……続きを見る
著者:James A. Brundage
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2008年11月15日
In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in W……続きを見る
著者:M. H. Hoeflich
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part legal history, part history of inform……続きを見る
著者:Nancy Kollmann
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmati……続きを見る
著者:Jeffrey Toobin
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年03月27日
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie Britton
The definitive……続きを見る
著者:Gerald M. Stern
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年01月26日
The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibilityーwritten by the you……続きを見る
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”ーMichael Beschloss
In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores ……続きを見る
Land Law Reform in East Africa reviews development and changes in the statutory land laws of 7 countries in Eastern Africa over the period 1961 – 2011. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 set……続きを見る
著者:Sadakat Kadri
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four……続きを見る
A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present.
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The uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that rape remains a word in flux, subject to political power and social privilege. Redefining Rape describes the forces that……続きを見る
著者:C. E. Brand
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2013年08月21日
Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness throughou……続きを見る
Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define……続きを見る
著者:Victoria Wohl
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law ……続きを見る
The sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Rehnquist’s engaging writing illuminates both the high and ……続きを見る
This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends wit……続きを見る
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It fo……続きを見る