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Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law. Ignoring early advice that……続きを見る

Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law. Ignoring early advice that……続きを見る

This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair at the beginning of the century, to the arguments over women and immigrants’ rig……続きを見る

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society’s most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English pri……続きを見る

Beverley McLachlin was the first woman to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Joining the Court while it was establishing its approach to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Mc……続きを見る

A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023 A Waterstones Best True Crime Book Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of local wives conspiring together, and one woman at the centre……続きを見る

Learn about the most important legal milestones in history in The Law Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format……続きを見る

Saudi Arabia has never commanded more attention and yet it remains one of the world's least understood countries. In The Normalization of Saudi Law, Chibli Mallat dives into the heart of Saudi socie……続きを見る

First Published in 1985. This Volume I, Part 2 of the History and Anthropology series and focuses as Law as a discourse, including essays on disputes of locals in Eastern Brittiany on the ninth cent……続きを見る

Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication. For those who turn to Beccaria's work……続きを見る

This book provides a long history of France’s infamous indigénat regime, from its origins in Algeria to its contested practices and legacies in France’s South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The……続きを見る

The first comprehensive examination of the US Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause, surveying its history and the critical role it can and should play in combatting the punitive tendencies of America……続きを見る

In 1997, complacency about the racial neutrality of a predominantly white judiciary was shattered as the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias for the first time. Th……続きを見る

Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom.……続きを見る

The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these bib……続きを見る

This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning. Based on a Congress held at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Univers……続きを見る

"An eminent writer on Constitutional law, one of the earliest of the commentators and one whose words are still cited as authority ... near enough to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to have re……続きを見る

¿Existe el diablo? En este libro no habrá conjeturas sobre su existencia, sino sobre lo que representa para nuestra vida su sola mención. Para algunos es el espíritu del mal y otros lo personalizan:……続きを見る

中国古代监察制度产生于中华民族文化土壤上，具有鲜明的特征。其发展历程充分体现了中华民族的智慧与创造力。中国古代的统治者不仅注重监察体制的完善，而且致力于监察法的制定，以保证监察效能的发挥。本书论述了……続きを見る

A unique introduction to the constitutional arguments for and against the right to abortion In January 1973, the Supreme Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade struck down most of the country's abortion law……続きを見る

This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the rela……続きを見る

This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the rela……続きを見る

In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family. C……続きを見る

In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family. C……続きを見る

The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period of 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars she……続きを見る

The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period of 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars she……続きを見る

This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also ……続きを見る

The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Constitution of Bangladesh. It traces the sociopolitical and legal context of its birth in the aftermath of a violent Independence War, through ……続きを見る

本书以生动的笔法对中国的法治历程进行纵深考察，将一系列重大法律事件和生动故事娓娓道来，脉络清晰，语言优美，极具感染力。它是一部浓缩的中国法治史，在波澜壮阔的宏大视域中，以史实解读和独特感受带领读者在……続きを見る

中国人民正在全面建设社会主义现代化国家、实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦的征程上奋勇前进。随着经济社会的又好又快发展，中国人民的各项权益必将得到更好的保障，法治中国建设必将取得更加丰硕的成果，法治中国新……続きを見る