Legal History category: 1513 books

I diritti e i doveri, le aspettative e le pretese, le modalità di appartenenza e i criteri di differenziazione, le strategie di inclusione ed esclusione che definiscono il rapporto tra l’individuo e lo Stato: il ‘discorso della cittadinanza’ nella storia dell’Occidente.

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, , language: Italian, abstract: Il Capitolo generale è un organo collegiale che ha la suprema autorità a norma delle Costituzioni costituito da più persone fisiche, operanti su un piano di parità,...

Studiata ampiamente dal punto di vista storico-artistico, la Basilica di San Pietro non ha sino ad ora ricevuto sufficiente attenzione per quanto riguarda la complessa struttura amministrativa e organizzativa che, da cinque secoli, presiede alla sua costruzione, ricostruzione e manutenzione, la Fabbrica...

Un acceso dibattito sulla giustizia penale percorre l'Italia tra l'inizio del Cinquecento e l'arrivo, tre secoli più tardi, delle armate rivoluzionarie francesi: come rendere la giustizia al tempo stesso imparziale e veloce? Come punire i malfattori conservando il ‘Buon Governo’ dei territori?...

"I knew she'd be trouble." So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court's annual end-of-term party in 2010. It's usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed by their law clerks, but...

Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive biography of Friendly, Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases, and how Friendly lived his life.

In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition...

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting...

Esta obra se ocupa del estudio de doscientos años de Derecho Civil en México partiendo de los antecedentes de dos vertientes históricas: por un lado, la tradición del mundo occidental, de la cual somos herederos directos a través del Derecho español; y por el otro, la tradición precolombina...

For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.

We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regulate expression. Despite its importance to so many aspects of the global economy and daily life, intellectual property policy remains a confusing and arcane...

As a companion work to the Republic, Cicero wrote the 'Treatise on the Laws', De Legibus, which was almost certainly not published in Cicero's lifetime, and possibly had not received the last touches when he died. There are three books extant, with gaps in them; but a fifth book is quoted. While the...

Since the mid-1970s, Congress has passed hundreds of overrides—laws that explicitly seek to reverse or modify judicial interpretations of statutes. Whether front-page news or not, overrides serve potentially vital functions in American policy-making. Federal statutes—and court cases interpreting...

In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre–Civil War justices—Marshall, Taney, and Story—upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.