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Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law
The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1997
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. It chronicles the creation of a new constitutional jurisprudence both adequate to the needs of a modern welfare state and based on the principle...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The delict of iniuria is among the most sophisticated products of the Roman legal tradition. The original focus of the delict was assault, although iniuria-literally a wrong or unlawful act-indicated a very wide potential scope. Yet it quickly grew to include sexual harassment and defamation, and...
Being Watched
Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A riveting history of the Supreme Court decision that set the legal precedent for citizen challenges to government surveillance
The tension between national security and civil rights is nowhere more evident than in the fight over government domestic surveillance. Governments must be able to...
Canadian State Trials, Volume II
Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
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). Historians have long debated the causes and implications of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The editors of this unique collection of essays exploring the relationship of St. Paul and the natural law bring together contributions by scripture scholars, theologians, philosophers, and international lawyers. Inspired by the special Jubilee Year from June 2008 to June 2009 – proclaimed by Pope...
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools
Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the...
A History of Australian Tort Law 1901-1945
England's Obedient Servant?
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Little attention has been paid to the development of Australian private law throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using the law of tort as an example, Mark Lunney argues that Australian contributions to common law development need to be viewed in the context of the British race patriotism...
Multidimensional Origins of Biolaw and Bioethics and their Impact on Conceptions of Human Rights and Human Dignity
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, , language: English, abstract: Biolaw is a new legal discipline. Still closely related to the fundamentals on which law is built, such as philosophy, biolaw has evolved into a truly legal discipline....
Rights Delayed
The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress as the forces that diminished the New Deal state, eliminated...
Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights
From Magna Carta to Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
While challenges to authority are generally perceived as destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays, with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to legal authority - over time, geographical place,...
by Phaedrus T. Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Erotica is the most lucrative genre in the publishing industry, because let’s face it… sex sells! But recent changes in the publishing industry, spurred by irresponsible bloggers and panicky CEO’s, are making it more and more difficult for erotica writers to get published.Publishers who...
The Great Transition in Legal Education
Special Issue of the Manitoba Law Journal, Volume 39(1)
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
In the 1960s, the University of Manitoba Law School moved from being an downtown, practitioner-taught law school to the suburban campus of a large university. This great transition was modelled after many in Canada. The debate has arisen as to whether law schools have become excessively immersed in...
Just Words
Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts...
The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba, 1870-1950
A Biographical History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
This study of the Manitoba judiciary is not only the first biographical history to examine an entire provincial bench, it is also one of the first studies to offer an internal view of the political nature of the judicial appointment process. Dale Brawn has penned the biographies of the first thirty-three...