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Women in Solitary offers a new account based around the narratives of four women who experienced detention and torture in South Africa in the late 1960s when the regime tried to stage a trial to con……続きを見る

Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings. In 1951, Suzann……続きを見る

The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments, as w……続きを見る

On the night of March 1, 1932, the infant son of famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow, the daughter of a diplomat, was kidnapped from the family's hilltop estate in Hopewell, ……続きを見る

First Published in 1990. With the publication of this book, the author inaugurates a new series at the Institute of Jewish Law. In recent years there has been a growing interest in Jewish law in Ame……続きを見る

La trayectoria vital de Francisco Jerónimo de León estuvo marcada por su formación jurídica y su vocación de servicio a la corona. Desde estas coordenadas el letrado protagonizó un extenso 'cursus h……続きを見る

Too often, history and knowledge of Indigenous-settler conflict over land take the form of confidential reports prepared for court challenges. To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach……続きを見る

La Guerra de Sucesión supuso para el reino valenciano encadenar dos legitimidades diferentes 'austríaca y borbónica' en un brevísimo espacio de tiempo, que finalizará en la revolución jurídica, inst……続きを見る

This English translation makes available to anglophone readers a modern classic of German tort theory. It argues that modern German tort law is faced with doctrinal tensions based on problematic the……続きを見る

Inhalt und Konzeption: Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich vor allem an Studierende der Rechtswissenschaft. Es dient der Vorlesungsbegleitung im Grundlagenfach Rechtsgeschichte, kann darüber hinaus jedoch ……続きを見る

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field. The text features an empowerment approach ……続きを見る

This volume offers a critical and creative analysis of the innovations of Deathscapes, a transnational digital humanities project that maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locatio……続きを見る

Vida cotidiana, mentalidades sociales o aspectos económicos se conjugan con normas penales, procedimientos judiciales y la política de orden público para presentar un cuadro general de la delincuenc……続きを見る

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth just……続きを見る

An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons,……続きを見る

Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished sources, this unique history of international commercial arbitration in the modern era identifies three periods in its development: the Age of Aspir……続きを見る

Truth and Privilege is a comparative study that brings together legal, constitutional and social history to explore the common law's diverging paths in two kindred places committed to freedom of exp……続きを見る

In The Legality of a Jewish State, the author traces the diplomatic history that led to the partition of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel as a state. He argues that the fate of Palestine……続きを見る

The History, Evolution, and Current State of Female Offenders: Recommendations for Advancing the Field summarizes what the field has learned about females and crime; details the status of legislatio……続きを見る

The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of nations. However, no scholarly monograp……続きを見る

"Lov er lov og lov skal holdes", siger man. Men loven er blevet ændret hele danmarkshistorien igennem. I professor Ole Fengers utraditionelle retshistorie om lov og ret vises, hvordan reglerne hele ……続きを見る

In this book, Craig A. Leisy provides a concise history of weights and measures regulation in the United States from the early 20th century up to the present day. Written for academic and profession……続きを見る

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changi……続きを見る

This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-g……続きを見る

This book aims to contribute a single idea – a new way to interpret legal decisions in any field of law and in any capacity of interpreting law through a theory called legal dialects. This theory of……続きを見る

This is a book of papers and interviews about innovative law school courses developed by faculty of the Wisconsin Law School from 1950 to 1970 that forged a path from legal realism to law and social……続きを見る

Dans le monde actuel globalisé, plus de deux milliards d’individus vivent sous le régime de la common law. Le prestige des États (États-Unis, Royaume-Uni, Australie, etc.) qui utilisent cette procéd……続きを見る

Identité nationale, identité constitutionnelle, identité des États sont autant de termes qui suscitent débats au sein des institutions européennes et nationales, entre juridictions constitutionnelle……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre los Juicios de Núremberg, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: •……続きを見る

L’histoire de la construction des droits de l’homme a des racines bien au-delà de la très célèbre Déclaration française. On les aperçoit dès les plus anciennes civilisations connues, notamment en Ég……続きを見る