6,500円 In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish it...

5,970円 In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed the construction of different literary genres. Drawing on ...

5,300円 Harvard Law School is the oldest and, arguably, the most influential law school in the nation. U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices, and foreign heads of state, along with senators, congressional representatives, social critics, civil rights activists, university presidents, state and federal ...

3,241円 In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not only to maintain safety and order but also to enforce conventional standards of morality and propriety. A person cou...

8,093円 In postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders’ vision of ordered liberty. Conceiving of self-government as a psychological as well as a political project, jurists built a republic of laws upon the Enlightenment science...

9,119円 In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He describes the Victorian ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ who made elicit peddling, begging frauds and other petty crime their profession. He considers the relevant ...

2,200円 Hans-Jochen Vogel, der bekannte Politiker und Jurist, stellt in diesem Buch ein weiteres Mal kuriose Rechtsvorschriften aus dem königlichen Bayern vor, mit denen er bei der damaligen Bereinigung des bayerischen Landesrechts befasst war. Humorvoll kommentiert er die manchmal skurril erscheinenden ...

5,214円 In this second installment of G. Edward White's sweeping history of law in America from the colonial era to the present, White, covers the period between 1865-1929, which encompasses Reconstruction, rapid industrialization, a huge influx of immigrants, the rise of Jim Crow, the emergence of an Am...

4,230円 Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished...

1,600円 Verfassungen sind konstitutiv für die Etablierung und Aufrechterhaltung einer politischen Ordnung. Die Verfassung begründet die Grundstrukturen eines politischen Systems, legt fest, wer sich wie an politische Entscheidungen beteiligt und wer als Träger legitimer staatlicher Macht zur Ausübung von...

1,600円 Unsere Welt wächst zusammen und braucht mehr denn je internationale Regeln für militärische Konflikte sowie den Kampf gegen Terror und Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Angelika Nußberger schildert kenntnisreich die Geschichte und die zentralen Ideen des Völkerrechts. Sie geht auf neueste Entwicklungen...

1,500円 Die „Geschichte des öffentlichen Rechts in Deutschland“ von Michael Stolleis gehört zu den herausragenden Gesamtdarstellungen unserer Zeit. Auf mehr als 2000 Druckseiten entfaltet ihr Autor darin weit über den wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Rahmen hinaus ein rechtshistorisches Panorama Deutschlands...