Routledge, 2014. — 195 p. This title, first published in 1989, was one of the first to directly address the legal dimension of bastard feudalism. John Bellamy explores the role and vulnerability of local officials and juries, the nature of the endemic land wars and the interference in the justice system by those at the top of the social chain. What emerges is a focus on the...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 208 p. For centuries, the Spanish state has proved to be an expert system for repressing political dissent and any threat that could jeopardize the maintenance of the status quo. It has done so using all the institutions and all the areas of power that were necessary, for the end has always justified the means. Carles Mundo, Catalan Minister...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 424 p. This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought in the long nineteenth century. Household Dissolution and the Construction of the Legal Family. Ideology and Population Management. The Invention of Family Law in English Scholarly Legal Thought. Law and the...
Fifth Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 159 p. Your guide to the Scots Law of Evidence, fully updated with the latest statues and case law. A handy overview of everything you need to know for your Scots law evidence course. Includes helpful student features like Essential Facts and Essential Cases for each chapter. New for this edition: Updated to take account of...
Fourth Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 208 p. Your one-stop introduction to Scotland's mixed legal system. Fully updated to cover: Case law developments The 2017 Westminster General Elections, the 2016 elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the Scotland Act 2016 Article 50 and the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Reveals the stories behind the most important and memorable cases in Scottish legal history. From the huge miscarriage of justice against Oscar Slater to the Lockerbie trial; from the decomposing snail in bottle of ginger beer to allegations of high jinks by a prominent politician; from unplanned pregnancy to switching off life...
Stanford University Press, 2023. — 290 p. In Supreme Bias, Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of race and gender at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Drawing on their deep knowledge of the confirmation hearings, as well as rich new...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. — 1023 p. Debating the feasibility and desirability of Canada’s first provincial constitution. No province in Canada has codified a written constitution. A Written Constitution for Québec? enters into the debate of whether Quebec should be the first. Taking a doctrinal, historical, theoretical and comparative approach, and addressing the...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 416 p. The Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the legal ideas that will shape the development of Canadian constitutional law in the decades to come. Moving beyond the frameworks that previous generations used to organize constitutional thinking, the scholars in this volume highlight innovative approaches to perennial problems...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 359 p. Value Change in the Supreme Court of Canada is a groundbreaking legal analysis of the degree to which Supreme Court decisions reflect the changing values of society over the past four decades.
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 295 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library; 115). By examining a portion of private law in imperial Rome as a functioning element in social life, this book constitutes an important contribution to the sociological understanding of law in premodern societies. Using archaeological data as well as literary and legal texts, Bruce Frier shows that members...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 252 p. In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M. Friedman offers a monumental history of American law in the twentieth century. The first general history of its kind, American Law in the Twentieth Century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life....
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 375 p. The evolution of the federal prosecutor's role from a pragmatic necessity to a significant political figure. In the United States, federal prosecutors enjoy a degree of power unmatched elsewhere in the world. They are free to investigate and prosecute―or decline to prosecute―criminal cases without significant oversight. And yet, no...
Springer, 2023. — 84 p. This book aims to explore the construction of Chinese law, with an evolution that has been strongly inspired by international law that has functioned as a "pioneer of legal civilization" in China. Chinese law is a fluid sedimentation of traditional elements of Chinese culture and the internalization of external elements. The internal dimension of Chinese...
Lexington Books, 2010. — 202 p. Under the Color of Law constitutes a full and critical scholarly commentary to the text of five key Bush administration legal memoranda formative of U.S. counterterrorism policy from 2001 to 2009. This volume is dedicated to the idea that these documents are worthy of being read and critically examined in themselves as primary text, precisely...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 408 p. In 1890, a delegation of African American activists formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization. Over the course of nearly two decades, these activists fought to end disfranchisement and segregation, and to contest racial violence, creating the foundation for the NAACP and the modern...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 277 p. Redeeming the forgotten history of our rule of law and its categorical limits on executive power. Finding the Content and Meaning of the Canadian Rule of Law in Its History. The Courts, the Academy, and the Future of the Rule of Law in the Twenty-First Century. Contemporary British Approaches to Unwritten Constitutional...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 159 p. For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how the Supreme...
Hart Publishing, 2022. — 265 p. The rule of law is not a simple concept when it comes to defining the political, economic, and legal developments of a country like Brazil, which is a young democracy struggling with its longstanding extractive institutions and entrenched interests. In this book, Juliano Zaiden Benvindo offers a broad perspective of the functioning, evolution,...
New York University Press, 2004. — 332 p. An examination of how some legal issues are losing cases - but that's okay because advances are still possible. Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion...
New York University Press, 2001. — 195 p. The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential election. For five weeks we were transfixed by the legal clashes that enveloped the country from election night to the Gore concession. It was instant history, and will be studied by historians, lawyers, political scientists, media critics and others for years to come....
Brill, 2011. — 336 p. — (Law in Eastern Europe). The book analyses the judicial culture in East Central Europe from the era of Stalinism up to the post-Communist period of the 1990s and 2000s. The book targets the judicial ideology and the conception of law, phenomena most resistant to change.
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2012. — 241 р. The settlers in early colonial Maryland had to form a new legal system while remaining in-sync with the contemporary laws of England. This book looks at how one group of settlers, women, negotiated their place in society via this new legal system. Drawing on the work of Lois Green Carr and Lorena Walsh, this book begins with an...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 220 p. Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a valid will. These inheritance disputes...
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2014. — 235 p. Cook analyzes the relationship between Supreme Court decisions and public opinion concerning First Amendment religious liberties. Overall, the Court has issued opinions consistent with public opinion in a majority of its decisions dealing with the First Amendment’s religion clauses, with a level of congruence of almost seventy percent...
Ohio University Press, 2014. — 343 p. Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage. The History of Indiana Law traces this history through a series of expert articles by identifying the themes that mark the state’s legal development and establish its place...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 340 p. This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the courts always the guardians of...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 272 p. During the period 1924-1949, amid civil war with the KMT, war with the Japanese, internal leadership disputes, and other chaotic conditions, rapid shifts occurred in the political culture of China. Patricia Griffin contends that an understanding of how the Chinese Communists created a legal system at this time is essential to a grasp...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 232 p. The evolution of China's legal tradition was one of the most striking aspects of the transformation of Chinese civilization under Mongolian domination. Paul Ch'en's exploration of the legal system of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and its first substantial legal code (the Chih-yuan hsin-ko, or Chih-yiian New Code) provides a key to our...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 144 p. — (Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law). A study of contempt proceedings in labor injunction cases. Specifically examines 'contempt' in general, the New York legal cases from 1904 to 1932, and legislative steps toward revision.
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 152 p. Discover how the law of evidence operates within Scotland, and in the larger context of UK and European laws of evidence. The new edition has been updated to take account of case law developments since the last edition, plus the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2014, the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 and changes made to the law on...
University of Toronto Press, 2008. — 480 p. Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison history, as well as the impact of the 1815 Treaty of Paris.
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 410 p. Selected legal essays by Professor William Gordon on history and connecting of Roman law and Scots law. This collection offers a representative selection of articles and contributions to books which have appeared during my academic career. The essays are grouped, sometimes a little roughly, into those concerned with “pure” Roman law,...
University of California Press, 2002. — 277 p. Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is a nation not of litigious...
University of California Press, 2001. — 419 p. This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its...
Brill, 2018. — 415 p. In Right, Power, and Faquanism, Tong Zhiwei proposes that right and power are ultimately a unified entity named faquan, and that the purpose of law should be to establish a balanced faquan structure and to promote its preservation and proliferation.
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 322 p. — (Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law). From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning,...
Springer International Publishing, 2021. — 304 p. This open access book examines whether a distinctly Nordic procedural or court culture exists and what the hallmarks of that culture are. Do Nordic courts and court proceedings share a distinct set of ideas and values that in combination constitute the core of a regional legal culture? How do Europeanisation, privatisation,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 432 p. Law Making and The Scottish Parliament: The Early Years offers the first wide-ranging critical analysis of legislative developments in those areas of law and policy devolved to the Scottish Parliament under the devolution settlement. It begins with a brief account of the devolution settlement and summarises the themes emerging from the...
Liverpool University Press, 2017. — 455 p. This book is an edition of the Athenian Constitution, the only one to survive of 158 Constitutions written in the school of Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., of which a text on papyrus was found at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on an edition commissioned by the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla in Italy, it provides an...
African Sun Media, 2021. — 214 p. The essays in this book, authored by academics from the Faculties of Law at the University of Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela University respectively, emanate from a joint research project and conference arranged by the Faculties in 2018. The essays focus on public law issues impacting on governance and accountability in South African law and...
Ian Randle Publishers, 2014. — 311 p. Transitions in Caribbean Law: Law-Making, Constitutionalism and the Convergence of National and International Law traces Caribbean legal thought and its development across many areas of law. Issues of administrative, constitutional, corporate and commercial, international, and labour law are explored in the context of the analyses of the...
SAGE Publications, 2019. — 225 p. PPP (public-private partnership) is a buzzword, especially in growing economies like India where it takes a partnership between the government and a private entity to establish successful infrastructural projects. However, PPPs in India face many hurdles that lead to either long delays or surprisingly, sometimes early completion of PPP...
ANU Press, 2017. — 365 p. The Australian Defence Force, together with military forces from a number of western democracies, have for some years been seeking out and killing Islamic militants in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, detaining asylum seekers for periods at sea or running the judicial systems of failed states. It has also been ready to conduct internal security operations...
University of Missouri Press, 2016. — 236 p. Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways to make sense of an increasingly...
Brill, 2009. — 322 p. — (International and Comparative Criminal Law). A Guide to Documents on the Arab-Palestinian/Israeli Conflicts: 1897-2008, is a comprehensive non-partisan compilation designed to provide relevant legal and historical source material pertaining to this conflict. Each document is summarized for the reader's benefit. The compilation contains all United...
University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 297 p. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 525 p. — (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History). This second volume of the Canadian State Trials series focuses on the largest state security crisis in 19th century Canada: the rebellions of 1837-1838 and associated patriot invasions in Upper and Lower Canada (Ontario and Québec).
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 275 p. — (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History). Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heart balm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada. The breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of marriage, and criminal conversation.
University of Toronto Press, 2005. — 437 p. — (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History). This volume, which includes a number of essays examining women's legal status and access to the courts, is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of legal history in two Canadian provinces.