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This book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed, how it has been deployed in colonial and postcolon……続きを見る

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which fo……続きを見る

D'esprit anthropologique et pluraliste, l'ouvrage ne se limite pas aux sources françaises et s'intéresse à l'étude de la jurisprudence et de la doctrine à Rome, dans l'ancien droit, dans la common l……続きを見る

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all……続きを見る

Witnessing Stalin's Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations. Held between 1936 and 1938,……続きを見る

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as w……続きを見る

**A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely." ーLouis Menand, The New Yorker A fascinating and original history of an idea th……続きを見る

How four Supreme Court cases in recent yearsーall argued and won by one indomitable lawyerーare central to the pursuit of equal justice in America. Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause law……続きを見る

This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the q……続きを見る

This book addresses key questions around gender-sensitive legislation as a key output of gender sensitive Parliaments and explores practical ways to promote gender-sensitive ex-ante scrutiny of legi……続きを見る

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look princip……続きを見る

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a search that spans revelation, legal tradition, and the r……続きを見る

As torts and as crimes, champerty and maintenance were abolished by statute in England and Wales in 1967. They were considered to be obsolete and the product of a bygone age, when abuses of the cour……続きを見る

The second of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes a diversity of contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena. It presents various s……続きを見る

The first of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes diverse contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena. It presents various studies o……続きを見る

Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between “church” and state in Israel remains unresolved, resulting in a continuous legal and social conflict ……続きを見る

This book describes the constitutional law of foreign affairs, derived from the historical understanding of the Constitution's text. It examines timeless and recurring foreign affairs controversies-……続きを見る

The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost a……続きを見る

Prior to the twentieth century, international law was predominantly written by and for the 'civilised nations' of the white Global North. It justified doctrines of racial inequality and effectively ……続きを見る

A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. B……続きを見る

"Turner tells fascinating stories of unlikely heroes and explains difficult legal issues clearly and concisely, educating and entertaining at the same time." ーElizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour Rec……続きを見る

This third selection of articles by Robert Feenstra complements the two previously published, continuing his studies of doctrines of private law and of texts related to university teaching from the ……続きを見る

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight. The recommended approach recognizes that the citizen……続きを見る

Este libro expone, de forma general, las principales ideas y autores de los diferentes movimientos o escuelas del positivismo jurídico, en sentido amplio, entre el siglo XIX y la primera mitad del s……続きを見る

This book is about heroes of law. It provides examples of when judges have exercised courage, moderation, wisdom, and justice rather than blindly following the law. It also discusses the contentious……続きを見る

The definitive story of a South Carolina newspaper editor's murder at the hands of a 1902 gubernatorial candidate, and the dramatic trial that ensued. On January 15, 1903, South Carolina lieutenant ……続きを見る

True tales of trials and errors over the long, strange course of legal history, from the authors of Doctors Killed George Washington. Did you know . . . If a husband in ancient Rome caught his wife ……続きを見る

A short story that helps to set the record straight about two (2) courageous, hardworking, driven individual black families who lived in different times and different places. Distant relatives who e……続きを見る

A study of the life of a Maryland slave, his escape to freedom in New Jersey, and the trials that ensued. James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton……続きを見る

A Columbia Law School team's in-depth examination of one man's 1989 wrongful conviction and execution for murder. In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligen……続きを見る