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Women Lawyers
Rewriting the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The very presence of women in the law—normal as it may seem to us today—signals revolutionary change in a social order that for centuries entrusted control over its rules to men. Mona Harrington examines both the problems women meet when they claim equal authority as rule makers, and the impact...
The Rule of the Clan
What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A revealing look at the role kin-based societies have played throughout history and around the world
A lively, wide-ranging meditation on human development that offers surprising lessons for the future of modern individualism, The Rule of the Clan examines the constitutional principles and...
by John Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge. The first full-length treatment of all aspects of the early development...
The Politics of Piracy
Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it was piracy and illicit trade that drove a wedge between them, imperiling the American enterprise and bringing the colonies to the verge of rebellion. In The Politics of Piracy,...
by Paul Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Many of the defining features of the modern law of tort can be traced to the first half of the twentieth century, but, until now, developments in that period have never received a dedicated historical examination. This book examines both common law and statutory innovations, paying special attention...
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed...
Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide
The Third Legal Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This examination of the mixed jurisdiction experience makes use of an innovative cross-comparative methodology to provide a wealth of detail on each of the nine countries studied. It identifies the deep resemblances and salient traits of this legal family and the broad analytical overview highlights...
The Emotions of Justice
Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that operated in a contradictory fashion by discriminating...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in armed conflict? Since the start of the "War on Terror" with 9/11, these protocols have increasingly been incorporated into public discussion. We have entered...
A Journey in Brazil
Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A Journey in Brazil: Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society is an investigative account of the vital career of Henry Washington Hilliard, who had a long and complicated relationship with slavery. A native Southerner, he was a former slave owner and Confederate soldier, but...
by Isaac Kramnick, R. Laurence Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
If the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects religious liberty, why doesn’t it protect atheists?
God occupies our nation’s consciousness, even defining to many what it means to be American. Nonbelievers have often had second-class legal status and have had to fight for their...
An Independent, Colonial Judiciary
A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
In 2012, the Bombay High Court celebrated the 150th year of its existence. As one of three high courts first set up in colonial India in 1862, it functioned as a court of original and appellate jurisdiction during the British Raj for over 80 years, occupying the topmost rung of the judicial hierarchy...
by Michael Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 9 (out of 10), Vilnius University, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Political Parties play a crucial role in modern democracies as they form and articulate the political...
Cultural Expertise and Litigation
Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by "culture," "custom" and "law"?...