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What About Law?
Studying Law at University
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Most young people considering studying law, or pursuing a legal career, have very little idea of what learning law involves and how universities teach law to their students. The new edition of this book, which proved very popular when first published in 2007, provides a 'taster' for the study of law;...
Legalism
Community and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
'Community' and 'justice' recur in anthropological, historical, and legal scholarship, yet as concepts they are notoriously slippery. Historians and lawyers look to anthropologists as 'community specialists', but anthropologists often avoid the concept through circumlocution: although much used (and...
by Dr Andrew Lyall
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies...
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence, 1735-1776
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The eminent legal historian William E. Nelson's magisterial four-volume The Common Law in Colonial America traces how the many legal orders of Britain's thirteen North American colonies gradually evolved into one American system. Initially established on divergent political, economic, and religious...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The essays look at the consequences that legal practice has on the lives of its practitioners as well as on the individual legal subject and on the shape of shared identities. These essays challenge liberal and communitarian notions of what it means to live the law.
In the first of the essays,...
System, Order, and International Law
The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Since the formation of nation-states lawyers, philosophers, and theologians have sought to envisage the ideal political order. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of today's theoretical discourses on international law. This volume...
States of Union
Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Silver Gavel Award Finalist
In two canonical decisions of the 1920s—Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters—the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution's protective umbrella. Since then, proponents...
Law and the Visual
Transition, Transformation, Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed...
A History of Law in Canada, Volume One
Beginnings to 1866
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the history of law in Canada. This volume begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, while volume two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions,...
Law and Memory
Towards Legal Governance of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Legal governance of memory has played a central role in establishing hegemony of monumental history, and has forged national identities and integration processes in Europe and beyond. In this book, a range of contributors explore both the nature and role of legal engagement into historical memory...
Mr. Mothercountry
The Man Who Made the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political, economic, cultural and racial ones. One of the central problems of political theory is the insurmountable gap between ideas and their realization....
by Thomas Glyn Watkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Watkin provides a history of the various legal systems by which Wales and its people have been governed over the last two millenia, including the civil law of Rome, the laws of the native Welsh people, the canon law of the Church and the English common law. This book shows how in each age the people...
by Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi al-Maliki
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, particularly from the understudied Mamluk era. In this...
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935) is ingrained in American history as one of the country's foremost jurists. Distinguished for his learning, judgment, humor, and eloquence, he served as justice of the United States Supreme Court for four decades. Throughout his career, Holmes forged new concepts...