Legal history books

"Bernd Rüthers legt vor den Hintergründen des 20. Jahrhunderts dar, dass die Bundesrepublik einen vielfach verkannten,...  Read More >>

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In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study...  Read More >>

Despite declining prohibitions on sexual relationships, Americans are nearly unanimous in condemning marital infidelity....  Read More >>

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A century ago Americans entered and fought 'a war to end all wars.' In Living the World War: A Weekly Exploration...  Read More >>

Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American...  Read More >>

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Das Bonner Juridicum ist mehr als nur ein funktionales Gebaude der Universitat: Es druckt mit seiner Transparenz,...  Read More >>

Combining historical comparison, constitutional theory, and political analysis, this volume links together theory...  Read More >>

Of the many consequences advanced by the rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, North Carolina...  Read More >>

Ian Wood explores how Western Europeans have looked back to the Middle Ages to discover their origins and the origins...  Read More >>

In this sequel to his bestselling Easter Rising 1916: The Trials, Sean Enright puts the great legal cases of the...  Read More >>

Im 18. Jahrhundert verschob sich die Legitimationsgrundlage des Strafrechts. An die Stelle der Tradition trat der...  Read More >>

How the fight for assisted suicide was won in the court of public opinion -- and eventually the Supreme Court, too...  Read More >>

Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden “took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks”, but few could...  Read More >>

""Weil Wir frei sein wollen"" beantwortet die Frage, warum wir den Staat brauchen. Die Antwort thematisiert ihn...  Read More >>

Originally published: New York: Pocket Books, 1995.  Read More >>

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was called upon to represent Duff Armstrong, a man who stood accused of murder. The case...  Read More >>

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Bayonets in Paradise recounts the extraordinary story of how the army imposed rigid and absolute control on the...  Read More >>

This is a thorough and scholarly treatment of a subject which owes much of its difficulty and at the same time of...  Read More >>

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