Deze serie duikt in het ingewikkelde weefsel van de rechtsgeschiedenis en onderzoekt cruciale kwesties en de evolutie van rechtssystemen in diverse culturen en tijdperken. Het presenteert onderscheiden studies van zowel gevestigde als opkomende academici, die nieuwe perspectieven bieden op hoe recht samenlevingen heeft gevormd. Ontdek de blijvende erfenis van juridisch denken en de diepgaande impact ervan op het verloop van de menselijke beschaving.
Almost Citizens traces the struggles over citizenship waged between US officials and Puerto Rican individuals, which led to a seismic constitutional shift away from citizenship, rights, and statehood, and toward racist imperial governance.
Drawing on a wide array of sources, including plea rolls, guides for confessors, and popular literature of the era, this book argues that issues of mind were central to jurors' determinations of whether a particular defendant should be convicted, pardoned, or acquitted outright in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England.
This book analyzes the role of law and social norms in fostering tax compliance in British-ruled Palestine and modern Israel. číst celé
This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial because it threatened to undercut Union victory.
Examines Europe's first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which saw regulation focused on workplace accidents and had major implications for state-society relations. Ideal for scholars in history and law with an interest in the welfare state, labor regulation, and occupational health.
How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tells the story of enslaved legal actors within the landscape of Hispanic urban slavery, focussing on women who were socially disadvantaged, economically active and extremely litigious.