Legal History category: 1513 books

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by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resource for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize on the...
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Islam and the Rule of Justice

Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture

by Lawrence Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice...
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by Martin L. Friedland
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015

Since his call to the Bar in 1960, Martin L. Friedland has been involved in a number of important public policy issues, including bail, legal aid, gun control, securities regulation, access to the law, judicial independence and accountability, and national security. My Life in Crime and other Academic...
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Constitutional Ethos

Liberal Equality for the Common Good

by Alexander Tsesis
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017

Judges, courts, and scholars in the United States agree that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but there is much disagreement about its meaning. So what seems to be incontestable truth is riddled with disagreements about every day questions of decision making on matter such as whether...
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The Supreme Court in the Early Republic

The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth

by William R. Casto, Herbert A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

William R. Casto sheds a new light on America’s federal judiciary and the changing legal landscape with his detailed examination of the Supreme Court’s formative years. In a study that spans the period from the Court’s tentative beginnings through the appointment of its third chief justice,...
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Impersonations

Troubling the Person in Law and Culture

by Sheryl Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of...
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Courts and Trials

A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975

The judicial system occupies an important place in society, yet it has been one of the least studied of Canadian institutions. Traditionally, examination and criticism of the trial process have been left to lawyers and members of the legal profession. In this volume nine non-lawyers scrutinize its...
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The Law Emprynted and Englysshed

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475-1642

by David John Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

What impact did the printing press – a new means of communicating the written word – have on early modern English lawyers? This book examines the way in which law printing developed in the period from 1475 up until 1642 and the start of the English Civil War. It offers a new perspective on the...
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Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide

The Third Legal Family

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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...
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by David J. Bederman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010

A central puzzle in jurisprudence has been the role of custom in law. Custom is simply the practices and usages of distinctive communities. But are such customs legally binding? Can custom be law, even before it is recognized by authoritative legislation or precedent? And, assuming that custom is...
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Devising, Dying and Dispute

Probate Litigation in Early Modern England

by Lloyd Bonfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights. For only those who owned property were considered to have a vested interest in the maintenance of law, order and social harmony. As such, establishing the ownership of 'things' was a constant concern for all people, and nowhere...
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From Recognition to Reconciliation

Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights

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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016

More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.” Hailed at the time as a watershed moment in the legal and political relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018

Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through...
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Freiheit und Revolution

Die natürliche Freiheit der Menschen und das Widerstandsrecht gegen autoritäre Herrschaftssysteme in Kapiteln 10 und 11 der 'Zweiten Abhandlung über die Regierung' von John Locke im biographischen und historischen Kontext

by Stefan Kirchner
Language: German
Release Date: October 14, 2008

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Jura - Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtssoziologie, Rechtsgeschichte, , 40 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: [...] Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, nach einer Darstellung der biographischen Hintergründe des Lockeschen Schaffens sowie der Kapitel...
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