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Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explai……続きを見る

In the antebellum Midwest, Americans looked to the law, and specifically to the jury, to navigate the uncertain terrain of a rapidly changing society. During this formative era of American law, the ……続きを見る

If one counts the production of constitutional documents alone, the nineteenth century can lay claim to being a 'constitutional age'; one in which the generation and reception of constitutional text……続きを見る

Le colloque ici rapporté achève une trilogie autour des thèmes de l’interprétation, du sens et du non sens des mots du droit (Interpréter et traduire, Bruylant, 2007; Le faux, le droit et le juste, ……続きを見る

This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining t……続きを見る

Events: The Force of International Law presents an analysis of international law, centred upon those historical and recent events in which international law has exerted, or acquired, its force. From……続きを見る

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley ……続きを見る

Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepren……続きを見る

Caryl Chessman was a car thief in the 1940s. From St. Joseph's, Michigan, many of his father's ancestors settled in DuPage County, Illinois. Chessman's father, Serl was born in Itasca. Caryl Chessma……続きを見る

Parler de l’effectivité d’une règle ou d’une catégorie juridique (par exemple d’un État, d’une nationalité ou d’un recours), c’est viser la situation de fait censée concorder avec la signification d……続きを見る

Pendant les vingt premières années de son parcours d’étude et d’enseignement du droit, l’auteur a côtoyé le pluralisme juridique sans l’identifier, fidèle en cela aux enseignements dispensés au cour……続きを見る

L’ouvrage rassemble une vingtaine d’articles que Jean Salmon a écrits au cours des années et qui se consacrent à la place et au rôle de l’argumentation en droit international. Ces réflexions se situ……続きを見る

Le présent traité propose une étude des normes, non écrites, de droit positif que l’on désigne par l’expression « principes généraux du droit ». Ceux-ci sont à présent reconnus en Belgique comme sou……続きを見る

Until the late nineteenth-century, the most common form of local government in rural England and the British Empire was administration by amateur justices of the peace: the sessions system. Petty Ju……続きを見る

Ohio Canal Era, a rich analysis of state policies and their impact in directing economic change, is a classic on the subject of the pre–Civil War transportation revolution. This edition contains a n……続きを見る

Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions ……続きを見る

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968. Brice Dickson studies the effectiv……続きを見る

Est-il possible de dire dans le langage du droit ce qui s’est passé à Auschwitz ou au Rwanda ? La guerre peut-elle être légale ? Les victimes ont-elles une place dans la procédure et dans le process……続きを見る

Este livro é fruto das anotações de aulas de História do Direito. Nele são feitas observações com intuito didático e sem pretensão de aprofundamento científico-filosófico em cada assunto tratado. Tr……続きを見る

On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Mur……続きを見る

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In 1880 the federal Parliament of Canada repealed the Insolvent Act of 1875, leaving debtor-creditor matters to be regulated by the provinces. Almost forty years later, Parliament finally passed new……続きを見る

In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutena……続きを見る

The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best……続きを見る

This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that coupl……続きを見る

A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to the Court Almost any Alabami……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT We shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politi……続きを見る

Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process, discipline, punishment and desistance, and incorporating case studies from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, the thirtee……続きを見る

This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It considers how crime has been conceived as problem and, by scrutinising the r……続きを見る

Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a……続きを見る