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A scholarly study of how women’s executions were staged, interpreted, and recorded in Renaissance England A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England provides……続きを見る

Maintaining the importance of socio-economic issues in devising transitional justice mechanisms, this book examines the widespread practice of land grabbing in Afghanistan. On 3 September 2003, 100 ……続きを見る

Now in its second edition, Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England has been updated to include more texts about witchcraft, murder, and sexual deviance and discussions about the historical……続きを見る

This book details both the intellectual and social history of American legal rules, institutions, ideology, and culture that had a foreign component, either by import or after 1900 also by export fr……続きを見る

Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective. The book critically evaluate……続きを見る

Adherents of originalism often present it as a theory that constrains legal decision-making in a clear and objective manner that is based on the text and original meaning of the Constitution, in con……続きを見る

Dieses Buch erläutert die verfassungsmäßige Ausgestaltung der Gesetzgebungsverfahren im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Zusammenhang. Dadurch wird nach……続きを見る

Die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik ist maßgeblich vom Grundgesetz und der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts geprägt worden. In den Darstellungen der Historiker kommt das jedoch nur unvollk……続きを見る

Dr. Georg Beseler war ein deutscher Jurist, Mitglied der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung und des Verfassungsausschusses. In diesem Band hat er sich hauptsächlich zur Aufgabe gestellt, das Verhältnis……続きを見る

In Niederthann gärt eine dunkle Vergangenheit. Das beschauliche Dorf in Oberbayern war in den 1970er Jahren Schauplatz eines Verbrechens, das als Lehrstück für Alltagsrassismus und seine verhängnisv……続きを見る

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified b……続きを見る

Une genèse de notre droit pour mieux en maîtriser les changements à venir. Notre système juridique est le produit d'un amalgame. Ses composantes essentielles s'enracinent dans l'histoire. Du passé, ……続きを見る

Come si protegge la memoria di una nazione? Questo libro risponde ripercorrendo la storia d'Italia attraverso le norme che hanno dato vita agli Archivi di Stato. Dalle prime leggi post-unitarie alla……続きを見る

Payoffs in the Cloakroom is a spellbinding follow-up to Rubenstein and Ziewacz's critically acclaimed Three Bullets Sealed His Lips. Three Bullets brought to life new evidence on the 1945 murder of ……続きを見る

After being almost untouched for over 200 years, the contract law section of the French Civil Code was overhauled in 2016 and 2018. The New French Law of Contract describes, explains and analyses th……続きを見る

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia. Rottnest is also known as Wadjemup, or "the place across the water where the spirits ……続きを見る

El divorcio eclesiástico fue la vía legalmente institucionalizada en Chile para resolver los conflictos conyugales hasta 1884. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, el matrimonio era una instituci……続きを見る

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and correct……続きを見る

How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 'Russell Marks unravels a national tragedy. From the front line he delivers a first-rate, firsthand account of……続きを見る

The Science of Proof traces the rise of forensic medicine in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and examines its implications for our understanding of expert authority. Tying real life c……続きを見る

Der Verfasser hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, das im 19. Jahrhundert im deutschen Rechtsleben geltende "Volksrecht" zum wissenschaftlichen Verständnis zu bringen und das Wesen und den Wert des "Juris……続きを見る

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities. An issue that has long been the subject of much debate amongst feminists, ……続きを見る

How does a Parsi lawyer, deeply influenced by the principles of Roman Catholicism, fall in love with a Bahai and go on to become the Attorney General of India for a Hindu nationalist BJP government?……続きを見る

A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates. In the last past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term cons……続きを見る

In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry……続きを見る

The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency” Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure i……続きを見る

Bluntschli hat sich um die Staatswissenschaft in Deutschland unvergängliche Verdienste erworben. Er hat als Schriftsteller und als akademischer Lehrer, sowie in seiner parlamentarischen Tätigkeit au……続きを見る

Der Verfasser dieses umfassenden Referenzwerkes ist bei seiner Arbeit von der Ansicht ausgegangen, dass das Recht des natürlichen Wachstums der Völker und Staaten und das Recht der Entwicklung der M……続きを見る

An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion. Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a l……続きを見る

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray cur……続きを見る