Legal History 79

A lo largo de la historia los gobernantes han utilizado las leyes para imponer el orden. Pero las leyes no eran simplemente instrumentos de poder y control social: también ofrecieron a la gente comú……続きを見る

Unraveling Abolition tells the fascinating story of slaves, former slaves, magistrates and legal workers who fought for emancipation, without armed struggle, from 1781 to 1830. By centering the Colo……続きを見る

A comprehensive account of lawyer William Garrow's life, career, family and connections. 続きを見る

An entertaining diversion for Lawyers and others, Twenty Famous Lawyers focuses on household names and high profile cases. Contains valuable insights into legal ways and means and looks at the chall……続きを見る

Describes how a man narrowly escaped the gallows in one of the UK's most famous murder acquittals. Peppered with snapshots of the times. Analyses competing views on Wallace's story. A key case in th……続きを見る

The autobiography of one of the UK's foremost defence solicitors who was later a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and Circuit Judge in the Crown Court before becoming a Supreme Court Justice in G……続きを見る

From the cases of Michael Fagan and other Buckingham Palace intruders to those of West End pickpockets, over-zealous preachers, 'saucy' prostitutes and cockroaches in the kitchens of one of London's……続きを見る

In August 1966, two weeks after England won the World Cup, and four miles from Wembley Stadium, Harry Roberts and his associates gunned down three unarmed police detectives in front of dozens of pri……続きを見る

Shows the historical importance of challenges to the state and powerful groups. Demonstrates how rights we take for granted have been acquired and set into Law over time thanks to the actions of com……続きを見る

The Ouija board jury incident of 1994 is one of the most disconcerting in English legal history. In this first full-length treatment he emphasises the known facts, the constitutional dilemma of inve……続きを見る

This is the book that inspired the TV series Dark Angel. Mary Ann Cotton is not just the first but perhaps the 1st's most prolific female serial killer, with more victims than Myra Hindley, Rosemary……続きを見る

A classic work and a collector's item which looks at the genesis and purposes of punishment. Shows how punishment, power differences, social control and (sometimes suspect) economics and politics ha……続きを見る

As the author notes, 'The early-modern European witch-hunts were neither orchestrated massacres nor spontaneous pogroms. Alleged witches were not rounded up at night and summarily killed extra-judic……続きを見る

Although well known to local people, the Tottenham Outrage of 1909 when two Latvian robbers, Jewish refugees, intercepted a payroll has been comparatively hidden to the wider world (unlike the notor……続きを見る

Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States dissects the forces that shape US conflicts over birth control and abortion. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Roe ……続きを見る

The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of Gregory Durston's title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession……続きを見る

A refreshing account of a very famous case. Contains legal and other analysis. A fly-on-the-wall view of the nineteenth century USA justice system. A true story that reads like a thriller. 続きを見る

By the detective who arrested Napper, this book looks at the emergence of criminal profiling. Alan Jackaman enters the mind of a psychotic killer and shows how media 'obsession' can hinder justice. 続きを見る

In this first full-length account of Helena Normanton's life and career, Judith Bourne tells of her fight to join the Bar of England and Wales and open it up to women. 続きを見る

Former district judge Ronald Bartle selects three cases for close scrutiny where the defendants paid the ultimate penalty even though demonstrably the victims of injustice. 続きを見る

The case of Ian Hay Gordon involves a miscarriage of justice brought about in circumstances of privilege, patronage and the social and religious divides existing in Northern Ireland in the decades f……続きを見る

For any of the five million people who saw the prime-time BBC series "e;Garrow's Law"e; this is an absorbing book. It is written by expert commentator John Hostettler who has studied Garrow ……続きを見る

Fields, Fen and Felonies is neither a micro-history in the context of a parish, hundred, or small town nor national account, but a more unusual criminal justice history of a major English region wit……続きを見る

In this welcome addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and order. But he also detects an emergent crimin……続きを見る

An account of the Lawyers who helped - over centuries - to develop and protect civil liberties, human rights and the Rule of Law. Also discusses breaches of the Rule of Law in modern cases and in re……続きを見る

The Missing Monument Murders is a veiled story of power, wealth, dark deeds and intrigue. In 1806, Jane Austen's relative, the Reverend Thomas Leigh, came into vast estates and the mood in the exten……続きを見る

An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America In 1915 Leo Frank, a northern Jew, was lynched in Geo……続きを見る

In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Drawing on understudied arc……続きを見る

At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field. This was largely focused on his monograph, Studies in Early Muslim Jurisp……続きを見る

The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE. Based on preserved legal documents and the exper……続きを見る