Legal History category: 1513 books
Justice in Lüritz
Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
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 as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court,...
by Thomas A. J. McGinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context....
The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities
Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of theLaw That Make Us AllU nsuspecting Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
You're probably breaking the law right now-and don't even know it.
Did you know...
? Naples, Italy, enforces laws for what constitutes real pizza, and "pizza police" visit restaurants to crack down on unlawful pies?
? In West Virginia it is a crime to display or possess a red or black...
The Most Democratic Branch
How the Courts Serve America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Many critics attack federal judges as anti-democratic elitists, activists out of step with the mainstream of American thought. But others argue that judges should stand alone as the ultimate guardians of American values, placing principle before the views of the people. In The Most Democratic Branch,...
Under Arrest
Canadian Laws You Won't Believe
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Did you know that Canada's Criminal Code still has provisions outlawing the practice of witchcraft and "crafty sciences"? Did you know that blasphemy is a crime in Canada? And did you know that putting a picture of a red poppy on your website could get you in trouble with the Royal Canadian...
The Thousandth Man
A Biography of James McGregor Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war...
by Allyson N. May
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Allyson May chronicles the history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850. She charts the transformation of the legal process and the evolution of professional standards of conduct for the criminal bar through an examination of the working...
Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe
Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This volume brings together papers by a group of scholars, distinguished in their own right, in honour of James Brundage. The essays are organised into four sections, each corresponding to an important focus of Brundage's scholarly work. The first section explores the connection between the development...
American Law 101
An Easy Primer on the U.S. Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
American Law 101: An Easy Primer on the U.S. Legal System is a thorough introduction to American legal principles, a highly accessible user's guide into both the spirit and the black letter law underlying the U.S. legal system. Everyone who wants a better, working understanding of U.S. law and the...
Law, Not War
The Long, Hard Search for Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Law is an institution that has evolved and flourished throughout its six-thousand-year history. Tracing this history in complex societies from the Ancient Middle East to the contemporary world, this book poses the following question: can international law become an effective instrument of social control...
Colonial Copyright
Intellectual Property in Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
When the British Empire enacted copyright law for its colonies and called it colonial, or Imperial, copyright, it had its own interests in mind. Deconstructing the imperial policy regarding copyright offers a startling glimpse into how this law was received in the colonies themselves. Offering the...
Legal Emblems and the Art of Law
Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition...
The Supreme Court and Legal Change
Abortion and the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs,...
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...