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What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of ……続きを見る

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What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Co……続きを見る

In one of the most thorough accounts of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell provide an insightful overview of the legal history and meaning of……続きを見る

Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423. The essays……続きを見る

This book examines how the Supreme Court has repeatedly reshaped constitutional law, often in ways that depart from the image of neutral umpiring invoked by Chief Justice John Roberts-and later echo……続きを見る

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study. An analysis of ……続きを見る

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethle……続きを見る

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. From a legal perspective, it wond……続きを見る

This book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community offers a historical and philosophical lens on the c……続きを見る

During its classical period, American contract law had three prominent characteristics: nearly unlimited freedom to choose the contents of a contract, a clear separation from the law of tort (the la……続きを見る

75 Jahre nach dem Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess ist die Strafverfolgung der nationalsozialistischen Systemverbrechen faktisch abgeschlossen. Der Band nimmt den letzten Akt der Strafverfolg……続きを見る

Vacarius and the Advent of Civil Law This is Volume 1 of the series of books about Medieval Oxford University. The series will examine a wide range of positive and negative connections between the U……続きを見る

‘Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful’ The Times _________ London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, ……続きを見る

Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events ……続きを見る

El autor ha procurado describir en este libro los momentos más significativos del acontecer del derecho privado de Occidente que de preferencia puedan interesar a un lector nacional. Un propósito qu……続きを見る

Los numerosos estudios sobre la historia de los delitos y las penas en la España contemporánea, han pasado de largo sobre estos fenómenos en períodos anteriores, cuando aún no se había instaurado la……続きを見る

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "Anglosphere" to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book e……続きを見る

This book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed, how it has been deployed in colonial and postcolon……続きを見る

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which fo……続きを見る

D'esprit anthropologique et pluraliste, l'ouvrage ne se limite pas aux sources françaises et s'intéresse à l'étude de la jurisprudence et de la doctrine à Rome, dans l'ancien droit, dans la common l……続きを見る

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all……続きを見る

Witnessing Stalin's Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations. Held between 1936 and 1938,……続きを見る

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as w……続きを見る

**A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely." ーLouis Menand, The New Yorker A fascinating and original history of an idea th……続きを見る

How four Supreme Court cases in recent yearsーall argued and won by one indomitable lawyerーare central to the pursuit of equal justice in America. Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause law……続きを見る

This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the q……続きを見る

This book addresses key questions around gender-sensitive legislation as a key output of gender sensitive Parliaments and explores practical ways to promote gender-sensitive ex-ante scrutiny of legi……続きを見る

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look princip……続きを見る

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a search that spans revelation, legal tradition, and the r……続きを見る