2,200円 Der renommierte Rechtshistoriker Michael Stolleis versammelt in diesem Buch kuriose Geschichten aus Recht und Literatur vom Spätmittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Menschen geraten aneinander, geben ihrer Streitlust nach, prozessieren jahrelang – Stoff für amüsante oder melancholische Betrachtungen...

1,600円 «Was wir als Anfänge glauben nachweisen zu können, sind ohnehin schon ganz späte Stadien.» Dieses Diktum aus den «Weltgeschichtlichen Betrachtungen» Jacob Burckhardts gilt auch für die deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte: Lange bevor auch nur der Begriff «Deutschland» entstand, wurden in antiken und f...

9,948円 The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux. This relationship may be configured in a number of ways. Religious norms may be enforced by the state as part of a regime of personal law o...

1,335円 A ‘MAKING A MURDERER’ set in South Africa – a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid ‘Gripping, explosive . . . crafts a close sense of place that rivals the work of Katherine Boo’ New York Times In 1993, in the final, fiery days of apartheid, a 26-y...

12,269円 Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts question the foundations...

13,265円 In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and the particular rhetorical strateg...

12,269円 Exploring the relationship between gender and law in Europe from the nineteenth century to present, this collection examines the recent feminisation of justice, its historical beginnings and the impact of gendered constructions on jurisprudence. It looks at what influenced the breakthrough of wom...

12,269円 Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case...

11,109円 In eighteenth-century England, the law surrounding vagrancy was complicated, and practice stood in complex relationship to law. Drawing on extensive archival research and in-depth study of both statute law and local administrative records, this book examines the complexities of vagrancy law and t...

9,450円 One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social upheavals. Why was it that the foundation and institutionalisation of secured peace and the rule ...

5,803円 Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues arising from these events are well-known, little is known about how the British legal process coped wit...

6,361円 A stunningly original history of higher education law. Conventional wisdom holds that American courts historically deferred to institutions of higher learning in most matters involving student conduct and access. Historian Scott M. Gelber upends this theory, arguing that colleges and universities...