Legal history books

Die europäische Verwertungsgesellschaften-Richtlinie aus dem Jahre 2014 rief einen grundlegenden Reformbedarf für...  Read More >>

"Ist die Demokratie das ""Schmerzenskind"" der Staatsrechtslehre? Volker Neumann beantwortet diese Frage anhand...  Read More >>

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

"Patricia Wiater behandelt den Status nichtstaatlicher Akteure im Völker- und Europarecht anhand der prozessualen...  Read More >>

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

The first-person plural - 'we, ourselves' - is the hallmark of a democracy under the rule of law in the modern age....  Read More >>

In 1908, at the height of Jim Crow, Virginia switched from public hanging at local gallows to the electric chair...  Read More >>

Eine Publikation über die Gesetzgebung und Praxis der chinesischen Fusionskontrolle aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht....  Read More >>

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Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and...  Read More >>

Schiedsverfahren: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Privatautonomie und staatlicher Kontrolle  Read More >>

William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal...  Read More >>

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How can we read crime scenes through photography? Making use of micro-histories of domestic murder and crime scene...  Read More >>

An accessible guide to the most important and groundbreaking legal milestones in history, and the people behind...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage porte sur le serment, envisagé comme acte public performatif qui engage le corps de la personne qui...  Read More >>

Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909-1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for...  Read More >>

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new...  Read More >>

In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation...  Read More >>

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Readers will be fascinated by the resistance of Ernst Fraenkel within Nazi Germany. A Social Democratic Jewish lawyer,...  Read More >>

This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first...  Read More >>

"Why didn't Roman copyright exist? Did the humanist Konrad Lagus just copy the theory of aequitas from his colleague...  Read More >>

"The mechanics of the ""legal theory of evidence"", which dominated German procedural law until the second half...  Read More >>