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This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North – Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom – have engaged with al……続きを見る

In The Framework of Criminal Justice, originally published in 1981, the criminal justice process is analysed by using six models, each of which expresses a different justification for criminal justi……続きを見る

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship – too much philosophising about how law has……続きを見る

In a world in which racism and xenophobia are endemic, what is the role of international law? To the extent international rules are thought to have any relevance at all, the typical approach charact……続きを見る

Features contributions that respond to deep challenges to social cohesion from racial injustice In the latest installment of the NOMOS series, a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars exp……続きを見る

In the century after emancipation, the long shadow of slavery left African Americans well short of the freedom promised to them. While sharecropping and debt peonage entrapped Black people in the So……続きを見る

The regulation of modern civil aviation can be traced back to the later years of the Second World War. An intense debate about the future regulatory regime resulted in a compromise which to this day……続きを見る

This book restores to view a masterpiece of beauty and legal scholarship, which has been lost for almost two hundred years. Produced anonymously in 1838, The Tree of Legal Knowledge is an elaborate ……続きを見る

This volume presents the first full English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the……続きを見る

First published in 1990, The Politics of Redress is a product of and commentary on significant developments in critical criminology. It shifts the emphasis from the criminologist as a police agent t……続きを見る

The book deals with (unfortunately) a highly relevant question of extraordinary measures adopted in many countries in connection with the recent pandemic, and the impact of such measures on ownershi……続きを見る

Contract Before the Enlightenment represents a fresh investigation of what was then a ground-breaking approach to the law of contract written by James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair (1619-1695), lauded b……続きを見る

The King's Felons examines the subtle but intentional development of criminal confinement as an alternative to capital punishment in early Tudor England. As the judicial establishment looked for way……続きを見る

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruc……続きを見る

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century. With its wide geographical focus from Italy to the USSR via Sweden, Germany, occupied Czechoslovakia an……続きを見る

John Sassoon’s study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal syste……続きを見る

It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseasーand on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Ame……続きを見る

Il processo di Norimberga è stato il primo tribunale militare internazionale della storia e mirava a far sì che le figure chiave del Terzo Reich rispondessero dei loro crimini. Furono processati 24 ……続きを見る

De processen van Neurenberg waren het eerste internationale militaire tribunaal in de geschiedenis en hadden tot doel sleutelfiguren in het Derde Rijk verantwoording te laten afleggen voor hun misda……続きを見る

Os julgamentos de Nuremberga foram o primeiro tribunal militar internacional da história e tinham por objectivo responsabilizar figuras-chave do Terceiro Reich pelos seus crimes. Julgaram 24 líderes……続きを見る

A former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America’s criminal justice system. As a public defender, Allen Goodman faced cross-examination from family and friends……続きを見る

Il presente libro è stato composto con il fine di riunire in un unico semplice testo tutta la normativa aggiornata, comprese le modifiche apportate dalla legge 7 agosto 2012, n.133, inerente al Sist……続きを見る

In this book, James Gallen provides an in-depth evaluation of the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses from a transitional justice perspective. Using a comparative len……続きを見る

This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced mig……続きを見る

This book examines the evolution of the contemporary crime victim’s procedural place within modern Western societies. Taking the history of the Irish crime victim as a case study, the work charts th……続きを見る

Οι δίκες της Νυρεμβέργης ήταν το πρώτο διεθνές στρατιωτικό δικαστήριο στην ιστορία και είχαν ως στόχο να λογοδοτήσουν τα βασικά στελέχη του Τρίτου Ράιχ για τα εγκλήματά τους. Δικάστηκαν 24 ναζιστές ……続きを見る

I det tyvende århundrede voksede byerne i Danmark med enorm fart. Det blev hurtigt tydeligt for forskere og lovudøvere, at den voksende befolkningstæthed førte til en eksplosiv vækst i kriminalitete……続きを見る

"Meddelelse til politimestrene. Tyskland har i øjeblikket besat dele af Danmark. I den anledning skal jeg anmode de danske politimyndigheder om, når det ønskes, at træde i forbindelse med de besætte……続きを見る

This book explores the political, legal, medical, and social battles that led to the widespread institutionalization of Californians with disabilities from the gold rush to the 1970s. By the early t……続きを見る

In a richly narrated historical study, Youcef Soufi excavates an Islamic legal culture of critique from the 10th to 13th centuries. Focusing on the practice of munāẓara (disputation), Soufi explores……続きを見る