Legal History 24

La seguridad social -afirma el autor de esta obra- no es sino el pago de una prima de seguro contra la revolución. A partir de esta tesis, se remite a lo que, desde su perspectiva, son los orígenes ……続きを見る

La presente obra histórica jurídica tiene como propósito dar a conocer los problemas legales que enfrentó, durante aproximadamente una década de su vida, don José Miguel Ramos Arizpe, primero las ca……続きを見る

La estructura de esta investigación acerca de la querela está dividida en cinco capítulos, los cuales están interrelacionados por su temática, terminología y por un enfoque común que enlaza a los di……続きを見る

El presente libro nos muestra que el pensamiento del maestro Francisco de Vitoria, tanto en su fundamentación filosófica y en su aplicación jurídica, otorga importantes aportaciones ーcon sus debido……続きを見る

Esta obra ofrece al lector un sucinto panorama del estado que guardan el Derecho mexicano y las instituciones jurídicas en la actualidad. El autor comienza por hacer un recorrido por las fases que h……続きを見る

La hermandad entre política y derecho en México es producto de la tradición que por ambos caminos proviene de nuestros orígenes culturales. El derecho dio a luz en su oportunidad el monumento jurídi……続きを見る

Nuestro libro es un esfuerzo por comprender la naturaleza y la razón de ser de los foros de justicia de la Iglesia Católica en la Nueva España. De este modo, lo hemos dividido en dos apartados que s……続きを見る

Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core. In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut of……続きを見る

German constitutionalism has gained a central place in the global comparative debate, but what underpins it remains imperfectly understood. Its distinctive conception of the rule of law and the wide……続きを見る

Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America.……続きを見る

Fred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man follow……続きを見る

Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. Thi……続きを見る

The issue of international crimes is highly topical in Asia, with still-resonant claims against the Japanese for war crimes, and deep schisms resulting from crimes in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and East ……続きを見る

Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal ……続きを見る

Conservative Criminology serves as an important counterpoint to virtually every other academic text on crime. Hundreds of books have been written about crime and criminal justice policy from a varie……続きを見る

**Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next Door The incredible story of the most convoluted legal odyssey involving Nazi war crimes** In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expe……続きを見る

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution. Designed to be a central guara……続きを見る

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciatio……続きを見る

The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surpri……続きを見る

Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "War on Coal." As evidence of this supposed siege, they point to a series of rules issue……続きを見る

When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, th……続きを見る

The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Grea……続きを見る

This selection of lectures, essays and speeches by Lord Judge, nearly all written when he was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, brings together his analysis of a wide range of topics which un……続きを見る

The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fra……続きを見る

Few individuals did more to shape the political and legal landscape of twentieth century America than Earl Warren. Throughout fifty years of public service, Warren pursued a Progressive vision of et……続きを見る

For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of……続きを見る

Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George ……続きを見る

Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discriminationーbut ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the……続きを見る

"Poor Joshua!" lamented Justice Harry Blackmun in his famous dissent. "Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, obviously cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by responde……続きを見る

This book deals with the genesis, outbreak and far-reaching effects of a legal controversy and the resulting outbreak of mass violence, which determined the course of British colonial rule after pos……続きを見る