Author: Rubio, Philip F. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today? The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the r...
Author: Hostettler, John Publisher: Waterside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Hostettler's brand new work is an ideal introduction. It charts all the main developments of criminal justice, from Anglo-Saxon dooms to the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and j...
Author: Polden, Patrick Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first full-length account of the County Court, a court which in contemporary English life has become the main forum for most civil disputes. The importance of the 'Poor Man's Court' in pur...
Author: Hostettler, John Publisher: Waterside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 resp...
Author: Zimmermann, Reinhard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The emergence of a European private law is one of the great issues on the legal agenda of our time. Set-off and 'extinctive' prescription (or limitation of actions) are much neglected topics in compar...
Author: Walker, Garthine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and o...
Author: Waddams, Stephen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Anglo-American private law (the law governing mutual rights and obligations of individuals) has been a far more complex phenomenon than is usually recognized. Attempts to reduce it to a single explana...
Author: Schapiro, Jane Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On October 21, 1996, attorney Michael Hausfeld, with a team of lawyers, filed a class-action complaint against Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corporation, and Credit Suisse on behalf of Holocau...
Author: Hutchinson, Allan C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia that show the law as a...
Author: Markovits, Inga Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working ...
Author: Brand, Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on ...
Author: Harries, Jill Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first systematic treatment in English by an historian of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society from the third to the fifth century AD. Adopting an inte...
Author: Maguire, Peter Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this classic text, Peter Maguire follows America's legal relationship with war, both before and after the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s. Maguire argues that the precedents set by the trials were no...
Author: Goodrich, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although Adam Smith died over two hundred years ago, his influence is still felt in many areas of contemporary economics. In this volume some of the world's leading economists pay tribute to Smith's c...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered, and used in eighteenth-century England. A team of leading international historians explore the ways in which legal concerns and procedu...
Author: Donahue, Charles Jr. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a study of marriage litigation (with some reference to sexual offenses) in the archiepiscopal court of York (1300-1500) and the episcopal courts of Ely (1374-1381), Paris (1384-1387), Cambrai ...
Author: Wilf, Steven Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Laws Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms ...
Author: Meyer, Elizabeth A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Greeks wrote mostly on papyrus, but the Romans wrote solemn religious, public, and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this r...
Author: Seville, Catherine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Talfourd's first Copyright Bill was presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary pamphlets, correspondence, and hundreds of petitions presen...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a b...
Author: Kesselring, K. J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines such abstra...
Author: McBride, Keally Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals wheth...
Description: Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation Service in England and Wales. The book explores and ...
Author: Mair, George / Burke, Lol Publisher: Willan Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation Service in England and Wales. The book explores and ...
Author: Bederman,David J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The framers of the American Constitution were substantially influenced by ancient history and classical political theory, as exemplified by their education, the availability of classical readings, and...
Author: Biancalana, Joseph Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fee tails were a basic building block for family landholding from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The classic entail was an interest in land which was inalienable ...
Author: Pound, Roscoe Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the ...
Author: Stebbings, Chantal Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The trust was a popular device among the Victorian middle classes to preserve their private property for the benefit of their families. At the centre of this legal institution was the trustee, whose d...
Author: Sandefur, Timothy Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America's founders thought the right to earn a living was so basic and obvious that it didn't need to be mentioned in the Bill of Rights. Yet today that right is burdened by a wide array of government...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Now that the Clinton Presidency has drawn to a close, political analysts and historians will study his administration and policies for some time to determine what his legacy will be.
Author: Magliocca, Gerard N. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerar...
Author: Marshall, Bridget M. Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts questioning the foundations of the...
Author: Orr, D. Alan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case-studies of major state tr...
Author: Carey, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This comprehensive book will be a fundamental resource for students of Ancient Greek history and anyone interested in the law, social history and oratory of the Ancient Greek world.
Author: Carey, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What appeals, ideals, values and prejudices could be expected to influence an Athenian jury? "Trials from Classical Athens" presents a selection of key oratorical speeches with new translations and lu...
Author: Hagan, John Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time enco...
Author: Slawson, W. David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 law ...
Author: Alman, Emily Arnow / Alman, David Publisher: Green Elms Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exoneration: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell — Prosecutorial deceptions, suborned perjuries, anti-Semitism, and precedent for today's unconstitutional trials explores the s...
Author: Markovits, Inga Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working ...
Description: This volume brings together a set of papers by international scholars, distinguished in their own right, in honor of James Brundage. Each contribution corresponds to an important focus of Brundage's o...
Author: Sandefur, Timothy Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: America's founders thought the right to earn a living was so basic and obvious that it didn't need to be mentioned in the Bill of Rights. Yet today that right is burdened by a wide array of government...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Now that the Clinton Presidency has drawn to a close, political analysts and historians will study his administration and policies for some time to determine what his legacy will be.
Author: Hagan, John Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time enco...
