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  • Medieval women and urban justice
    Teresa Phipps
    This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women’s access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of women’s legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life. ...
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    157,60 €

  • The Rise and Fall of Natural Law
    Friedrich Julius Stahl / Ruben Alvarado
    Our age is characterized by radical subjectivism. Which is to say: There is no agreement on any absolute standard of value. Indeed, there is no agreement even on truth itself. And as a matter of fact, the very concept of objective, absolute truth has been cast aside in favor of “truths” – your truth, my truth, whoever's truth. The result is the abandonment of the pursuit of...
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    21,64 €

  • Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Aggregate (1861)
    Joseph K. Angell / Joseph KAngell / Samuel Ames
    Reprint of the seventh edition. The first American treatise on the subject, it departed from English models to address the unique characteristics of the American corporation in the years after 1815, an era of unprecedented growth that was encouraged by the courts. It was the standard treatise of its day. In his Legal Bibliography (1847) Marvin says it was "undoubtedly the best ...
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    86,52 €

  • The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians
    Gilad Ben-Nun
    The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on 12th August 1949, defines necessary humanitarian protections for civilians during armed conflict and occupation. One-hundred-and-ninety-six countries are signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and this particular facet has laid the foundations for all subsequent humanitarian global law.How did the world - against seemingly insurmountable ...
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    160,64 €

  • Renaissance Lawman
    Martin Alan Greenberg
    Renaissance Lawman details the life, education path, and career choices of Eliot Howland Lumbard —an all too forgotten pioneer of the criminal justice field—and how he helped reform and develop the American Criminal Justice system into what we know today. ...
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    55,96 €

  • Renaissance Lawman
    Martin Alan Greenberg
    Renaissance Lawman details the life, education path, and career choices of Eliot Howland Lumbard —an all too forgotten pioneer of the criminal justice field—and how he helped reform and develop the American Criminal Justice system into what we know today. ...
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    100,25 €

  • A Lesser Species of Homicide
    Kerry King
    There has been a dearth of longitudinal attention to the prosecution of ’road traffic deaths’ in Australia and worldwide, surprising given more than 50 million people have died or been killed to date. Globally, the ’road toll’ is estimated at 1.35 million per year. Almost all of those deaths are attributable to some form of human error. A Lesser Species of Homicide examines the...
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    19,27 €

  • Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights
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    38,91 €

  • Law, Science, Rationality
    Antonia Waltermann
    This edited volume brings together scholars in the field of law and the cognitive sciences to analyze and illustrate what the current relationship between law and the cognitive sciences is and what it should be from a theoretical perspective, for example by asking in what way and to what extent insights from the cognitive sciences can and should impact legal concepts, rules and...
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    113,38 €

  • Law across imperial borders
    Emily Whewell
    This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority. ...
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    157,67 €

  • Homicide Justified
    Andrew T. Fede
    This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters'...
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    33,09 €

  • All for Civil Rights
    W. Lewis Burke
    'The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,' writes W. Lewis Burke, 'is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.' Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted to the South Carolina bar. All for Civil Rights is the first book-length study devot...
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    33,09 €

  • Owning Ideas
    Oren Bracha
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    35,36 €

  • The Rise and Fall of Cannabis Prohibition in Wisconsin
    Gary F. Storck
    The Rise and Fall of Cannabis Prohibition in Wisconsin is 'one part history book, one part memoir, and one part encyclopedia.' The Rise and Fall of Cannabis Prohibition in Wisconsin, the first book of its kind focusing on the state of Wisconsin, begins with the story of how the state came to pass its first law prohibiting marijuana in 1935, the legislation that further criminal...
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    27,23 €

  • The Devil in Massachusetts
    Marion L. Starkey / Marion LStarkey
    2019 Reprint of 1950 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Motivated in part by the question of how the Holocaust could have happened, Starkey delved into the Salem archives to explore the underpinnings of an earlier American tragedy: the Salem Witch Trials. Working from court records, she created a psychological po...
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    20,18 €

  • The Forgotten Shipwreck
    Nick Lyon
    The Forgotten Shipwreck is the tragic true story of a Cornish pleasure boat which sank without trace or sensation, relegated in news columns by England’s football World Cup triumph the day before. It spans so many facets, from a village numbed with whole families wiped out, to angry exchanges in the House of Commons and law courts. There is intrigue, chicanery, deceit, incompet...
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    35,22 €

  • Recounting the Anthrax Attacks
    R. Scott Decker / RScott Decker
    This book documents and reveals new information about the anthrax attacks of 2001. Decker provides first-hand perspective detailing the new science, microbial forensics, and parts of the investigation unknown to the public. ...
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    32,02 €

  • Roman Law and Language
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    50,95 €

  • Leaving the Arena
    David W Keene
    The Rt. Hon. Sir David Keene has had a long and distinguished career both at the Bar and on the Bench. From being called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, taking silk and becoming chairman of the Planning Bar to the High Court and Court of Appeal, Sir David has been involved in a number of fascinating cases over the course of his career, from the Stanstead Airport inquiry to the ...
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    69,35 €

  • The Steel Bar
    Ron Schuler
    Within a “Nation of Laws,” come to the birthplace of America’s industrial might, and see a Nation, testing and being tested by its Laws—in city streets, in factories and boardrooms, and occasionally even in courtrooms.“Ron Schuler’s THE STEEL BAR is a magnificent tour-de-force:  It weaves together history, law and powerful story-telling to produce a dramatic, readable account o...
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    44,14 €

  • The Steel Bar
    Ron Schuler
    Within a “Nation of Laws,” come to the birthplace of America’s industrial might, and see a Nation, testing and being tested by its Laws—in city streets, in factories and boardrooms, and occasionally even in courtrooms.“Ron Schuler’s THE STEEL BAR is a magnificent tour-de-force:  It weaves together history, law and powerful story-telling to produce a dramatic, readable account o...
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    32,19 €

  • A Woman in Law
    Celia Wells
    Celia Wells always felt like an outsider. Her unconventional early life was shaped by her Communist Party parents, she grew up as ‘town’ not ‘gown’ in Oxford, surrounded by books but living in a council house. She has uncovered an intriguing backstory with a bigamous grandmother, a convicted forger cousin transported to Australia in the 1840s, and the rise and fall of landed ge...
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    36,06 €

  • Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews (1853)
    E. C. Wines / ECWines
    Wines’s book was well-received by contemporary readers; Benjamin Butler, Levi Woodbury and William Kent were among its admirers. It begins with the assumption that “next to the birth and mission of Jesus Christ, the existence and institutions of the Hebrew people are the most important event in universal history” (Preface, iii). Its exploration of the Hebraic experience finds a...
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    48,25 €

  • The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers
    R. H. Helmholz
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    132,77 €

  • The Genius of the Common Law (1912)
    Sir Frederick Pollock
    A collection of Sir Frederick Pollock's lectures from the Carpentier Series at Columbia University. William Holdsworth praised the eight lectures as a discussion of  “...critical studies of aspects and characteristics of the common law which only an accomplished legal historian, a master of the modern law, and a professor of jurisprudence could have written.” William Holdsw...
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    37,20 €

  • Magna Carta (1914)
    William Sharp McKechnie
    Considered a primary factor in the undermining of the Whig history of Magna Carta, McKechnie’s landmark study provides a translation and detailed analysis of this fundamental text. xvii,530 pp. ...
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    48,62 €

  • Roman Public Life (1901)
    A. H. J. Greenidge / AHJGreenidge
    Traces the growth of the Roman constitution and examines how it functioned during the mature Republic and the Principate. “My desire was to touch, however briefly, on all the important aspects of the important aspects of public life, central, municipal, and provincial; and, thus, to exhibit the political genius of the Roman in connexion with all the chief problems of administra...
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    48,82 €

  • An English Dictionary (1676)
    Elisha Coles
    Containing around 25,000 definitions, many of them dealing with legal topics, this was the largest English dictionary of the late-seventeenth century. An innovative work, it was the first to recognize the importance of slang. In addition, it offers lists of dialect words and obsolete terms and the names of market towns and European cities. It also discusses the proper names and...
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    36,62 €

  • Women’s Legal Landmarks
    Women’s Legal Landmarks commemorates the centenary of women’s admission in 1919 to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key legal landmarks in women’s legal history. Over 80 authors write about landmarks that represent a significant achievement or turning point in women’s engagement with law and law reform. The landmarks cover a wide range of topics, includ...
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    101,20 €

  • Ancient Law
    Henry James Sumner Maine
    This treatise on the study of early municipal institutions, first published in 1861, has been likened, in its influence and importance, to Darwin's Origin of Species. With this slim volume, Maine, one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his day, created a natural history of law by demonstrating that our notion of legality is as much the product of historical develop...
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    43,00 €


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