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This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians’ forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jo……続きを見る

An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and considered From the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting rights, our laws and their implementation are actively s……続きを見る

A través de diez volúmenes, La vida constitucional de México condensa cien años de historia constitucional mexicana, desde el Estatuto de Bayona ーque junto con la Constitución de Cádiz forma parte ……続きを見る

This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its po……続きを見る

This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nu……続きを見る

This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer policy in Europe. It combines two dimensions: the making of national consumer law and the making of European consumer law, and how ……続きを見る

On se souvient de cette sale affaire qui a secoué la France au tournant des années 2000. Des adultes, en nombre, accusés d’inceste et de pédophilie dans une petite cité, quelque part dans une petite……続きを見る

The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy. The conventional wisdom about Felix FrankfurterーHarvard law profes……続きを見る

A través de diez volúmenes, La vida constitucional de México condensa cien años de historia constitucional mexicana, desde el Estatuto de Bayona ーque junto con la Constitución de Cádiz forma parte ……続きを見る

This book focuses, from a legal perspective, on a series of events which make up some of the principal episodes in the legal history of religion in Ireland: the anti-Catholic penal laws of the late ……続きを見る

In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to pressing with weights as a coercive measure. Using peine forte et dure ('strong and hard punishment') ……続きを見る

This book is intended for those in the humanities seeking a legal context for writing about rape in early modern England. It takes the premise that over the past four decades misunderstandings about……続きを見る

Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician’s Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative a……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive examination of land law for Arab Palestinians under Israeli law. Land is one of the core resources of human existence, development and activity. Therefore, it is a……続きを見る

Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and the Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalization o……続きを見る

From the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, Canada was in a state of ongoing political crisis. Within this thirty-year period, David R. Cameron was an active participant and observer of Canada’s crisi……続きを見る

El jurista y sociólogo Francisco José Paoli Bolio analiza en este libro las utopías más significativas de la historia occidental, desde la muy antigua de Platón y la del comunitarismo de los cristia……続きを見る

The Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different today’s Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justice’s background from John……続きを見る

In 1907 the Probation of Offenders Act introduced a system which allowed offenders to be rehabilitated at home under supervision, rather than being sent to prison. This book explores how the probati……続きを見る

«Medio evo del diritto», come titolo di un’opera di storia, può forse saper di astrattezza e ha bisogno di essere giustificato: proprio sul terreno storico, dove le astrattezze non allignano. Non è ……続きを見る

The legal meaning of bankruptcy and insolvency law has often remained elusive, even to practitioners and scholars in the field, despite having been enshrined in Canada’s Constitution since Confedera……続きを見る

Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slave……続きを見る

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English……続きを見る

This book provides a critique of current international law-making and draws on a set of principles from Persian philosophers to present an alternative to influence the development of international l……続きを見る

In the era of the appeasement of the dictators, Samuel Untermyer stands out as a champion of the human rights of not just German Jewry, but of other persecuted communities in Germany such as trade u……続きを見る

Women in Solitary offers a new account based around the narratives of four women who experienced detention and torture in South Africa in the late 1960s when the regime tried to stage a trial to con……続きを見る

Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings. In 1951, Suzann……続きを見る

The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments, as w……続きを見る

On the night of March 1, 1932, the infant son of famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow, the daughter of a diplomat, was kidnapped from the family's hilltop estate in Hopewell, ……続きを見る

La trayectoria vital de Francisco Jerónimo de León estuvo marcada por su formación jurídica y su vocación de servicio a la corona. Desde estas coordenadas el letrado protagonizó un extenso 'cursus h……続きを見る