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This book, strongly grounded in primary sources, makes an important contribution to the intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It brings to light the complex interpenetration of diverse intere……続きを見る

This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histo……続きを見る

Este texto muestra la sólida influencia de la corriente doctrinal del profesor francés León Duguit (1859–1928), en la reforma constitucional colombiana de 1936, desde tres perspectivas: el sistema j……続きを見る

Este texto es un clásico para la enseñanza del derecho en el Perú. Es una introducción a los principales conceptos jurídicos y al conocimiento de la estructura del derecho. Es en esencia un manual u……続きを見る

El territorio como construcción intelectual siempre ha ocupado un lugar importante en los estudios realizados desde el Derecho y la Ciencia Política, puesto que este constituye al mismo tiempo un ám……続きを見る

This book describes how a social-norms model of taxation rose and fell in British-ruled Palestine and the State of Israel in the mid-twentieth century. Such a model, in which non-legal means were us……続きを見る

In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in th……続きを見る

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminaliz……続きを見る

Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western wor……続きを見る

First published in 1917 (Part 1) and 1918 (Part 2), with a second edition in 1946, this is the first English translation of Santi Romano’s classic work, L’ordinamento giuridico (The Legal Order). Th……続きを見る

These are the papers from the 8th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference held in July 2016. In the usual manner, these papers have been selected from an oversupply of proposals for their interest and ……続きを見る

This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern Eng……続きを見る

Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to……続きを見る

Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts……続きを見る

‘When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conceptio……続きを見る

Recent research has begun to highlight the importance of German arguments about legitimate resistance and self-defence for French, English and Scottish Protestants. This book systematically studies ……続きを見る

The subject of drink received a great deal of attention from early modern Europeans. Preachers, physicians, authorities, artists and travellers all addressed it from a range of different perspective……続きを見る

Exploring the boundaries of the law as they existed in medieval and early modern times and as they have been perceived by historians, this volume offers a wide ranging insight into a key aspect of E……続きを見る

Dieses Buch vergewissert sich der Ursprünge der Völkerrechtstradition. Die heutige Debatte über die Rolle des Völkerrechts in den internationalen Beziehungen geht auf die Diskussionen des Kalten Kri……続きを見る

The hidden history of the FBI and its hundred-year war against terrorists, spies, and anyone it deemed subversiveーincluding even American presidents. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A SHOWTIME ORIG……続きを見る

This book aims to investigate whether, and if so, how, an institution designed to bring to justice perpetrators of the most heinous crimes can be regarded a tool of oppression in a (neo-)colonial se……続きを見る

In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal ca……続きを見る

The Liber legis Scaniae: The Latin Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries forms the second volume of The Danish Medieval Laws and is dedicated to the Latin text based on the Danish med……続きを見る

This multi-disciplinary collection interrogates the role of human rights in addressing past injustices. The volume draws on legal scholars, political scientists, anthropologists and political philos……続きを見る

This book explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence. It pursues this narrative al……続きを見る

Family law in India has a complex legal structure where different religious communities are guided by their own personal laws, each of which historically evolved under various social, religious, pol……続きを見る

The U.S. Supreme Court and Racial Minorities offers an in-depth, chronologically arranged look at the record of the U.S. Supreme Court on racial minorities over the course of its first two centuries……続きを見る

On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India came into force with a unique provisionーArticle 370. The special status accorded to the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the article meant that its people……続きを見る

In a just society the law not only applies to all equally, but also arises from the consent of the people it embraces. As such, justice implies that people have access to governance. A just society ……続きを見る

Basing his argument on natural law, Graham J. McAleer asserts that only public authority has the right to intentionally kill. He draws upon the work of Thomas Aquinas and Francisco de Vitoria, defen……続きを見る