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In Niederthann gärt eine dunkle Vergangenheit. Das beschauliche Dorf in Oberbayern war in den 1970er Jahren Schauplatz eines Verbrechens, das als Lehrstück für Alltagsrassismus und seine verhängnisv……続きを見る

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified b……続きを見る

Une genèse de notre droit pour mieux en maîtriser les changements à venir. Notre système juridique est le produit d'un amalgame. Ses composantes essentielles s'enracinent dans l'histoire. Du passé, ……続きを見る

Come si protegge la memoria di una nazione? Questo libro risponde ripercorrendo la storia d'Italia attraverso le norme che hanno dato vita agli Archivi di Stato. Dalle prime leggi post-unitarie alla……続きを見る

Payoffs in the Cloakroom is a spellbinding follow-up to Rubenstein and Ziewacz's critically acclaimed Three Bullets Sealed His Lips. Three Bullets brought to life new evidence on the 1945 murder of ……続きを見る

After being almost untouched for over 200 years, the contract law section of the French Civil Code was overhauled in 2016 and 2018. The New French Law of Contract describes, explains and analyses th……続きを見る

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia. Rottnest is also known as Wadjemup, or "the place across the water where the spirits ……続きを見る

El divorcio eclesiástico fue la vía legalmente institucionalizada en Chile para resolver los conflictos conyugales hasta 1884. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, el matrimonio era una instituci……続きを見る

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and correct……続きを見る

How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 'Russell Marks unravels a national tragedy. From the front line he delivers a first-rate, firsthand account of……続きを見る

The Science of Proof traces the rise of forensic medicine in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and examines its implications for our understanding of expert authority. Tying real life c……続きを見る

Der Verfasser hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, das im 19. Jahrhundert im deutschen Rechtsleben geltende "Volksrecht" zum wissenschaftlichen Verständnis zu bringen und das Wesen und den Wert des "Juris……続きを見る

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities. An issue that has long been the subject of much debate amongst feminists, ……続きを見る

How does a Parsi lawyer, deeply influenced by the principles of Roman Catholicism, fall in love with a Bahai and go on to become the Attorney General of India for a Hindu nationalist BJP government?……続きを見る

A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates. In the last past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term cons……続きを見る

In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry……続きを見る

The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency” Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure i……続きを見る

Bluntschli hat sich um die Staatswissenschaft in Deutschland unvergängliche Verdienste erworben. Er hat als Schriftsteller und als akademischer Lehrer, sowie in seiner parlamentarischen Tätigkeit au……続きを見る

Der Verfasser dieses umfassenden Referenzwerkes ist bei seiner Arbeit von der Ansicht ausgegangen, dass das Recht des natürlichen Wachstums der Völker und Staaten und das Recht der Entwicklung der M……続きを見る

An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion. Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a l……続きを見る

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray cur……続きを見る

International Relations and International Law continue to be accented by epistemic violence by naturalizing a separation between law and morality. What does such positivist juridical ethos make poss……続きを見る

Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters addres……続きを見る

This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, cou……続きを見る

The expression “transitional justice” emerged at the end of the Cold War, during the transition from dictatorships to democracies, and serves as a central concept in dealing with systemic injustice.……続きを見る

Atrocity. Genocide. War crime. Crime Against Humanity. Such atrocity labels have been popularized among international lawmakers but with little insight offered into how and when these terms are appl……続きを見る

This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Previous volumes have focused on the moral reforms of the 1960s, the changes to the criminal courts and the i……続きを見る

Just as the polls opened on November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony arrived and filled out her "ticket" for the various candidates. But before it could be placed in the ballot box, a poll watcher objecte……続きを見る

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Finalist While car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion Karen Tho……続きを見る

Langum Prize, Honorable Mention Americans value privacy as one of their most cherished rights, yet the word "privacy" isn't even mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. It took the Supreme Court's rulin……続きを見る