Legal History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 6

Reb Masel
The Book They Throw at You

TikTok's favorite lawyer and host of The Rebuttal Podcast Reb Masel offers an irreverent, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining survey of the law and the unexpected lessons we can learn from it.In 2021…

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Suzanne Handman
Madam Justice

How does one become a judge? How are cases decided? How do judges assess the truthfulness of witnesses? What is it really like to be a judge? In Madam Justice, Judge Suzanne Handman offers a candid and in…

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Martin Padgett
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick

When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on 3 August 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right t…

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Fara Dabhoiwala
What Is Free Speech?

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the…

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Decrypting Sovereignty as Archism

Using the theory of encryption of power in a tight connection with the theory of archaism sheds light on sovereignty and thus politics.Archism is that prevailing form of power that seeks to go nameless in…

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Jennifer Aston, Olive Anderson
Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales

Examines the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Acts and their use by married women to reclaim voting rights and rights of testation, inheritance and property ownership.

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Preet S Aulakh
Empire and the Peasant Proprietor

As the British Empire consolidated its geographical possession of distant lands by the 19th century, the agrarian nature of its colonies necessitated careful considerations about land tenure relationships…

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Hannah Scott Deuchar
Translate and Rule

Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a de facto British colonial territory. Integral to this transf…

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Francis R Herrmann, Brownlow M Speer
Foundations of American Criminal Due Process at Trial

Foundations of American Criminal Due Process at Trial anchors American fair trial rights in the geography and chronology of a Western legal tradition that encompasses Rome, medieval Europe, and England.

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Hannah Scott Deuchar
Translate and Rule

Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a de facto British colonial territory. Integral to this transf…

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Alecia P Long
Cruising for Conspirators

New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that culminated in the only prosecution undertaken in the assassination of John F. Ken…

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Siobhan McDonnell,
My Land, My Life

Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining liv…

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Lisa Zornberg
Entering the Arena

This book tells the spectacular history of women lawyers at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). SDNY is a storied institution, the oldest federal prosecutor's office i…

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Gary Watt
Shakespeare and the Law

Shakespeare and the Lawappreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renai…

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Gary Watt
Shakespeare and the Law

Shakespeare and the Law argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, but with its capacity to generate drama through dispute and playing with rules.

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , key structural moments arise when a speaker shifts from rhyming heroic couplets to address the reader in prose, as well as in instances where prose …

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Jessica Lake
Special Damage

In 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from "civilised" society when her neighbor accused her of carrying a bastard child. To silence the ruinous rumors and vindicate her name, Smith sued h…

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Ruti G Teitel
Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice

Throughout its history, the growing influence and significance of the United States on the world stage coincided with its legacy of human rights violations. However, with each momentous societal shift Ame…

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G Edward White
Robert H. Jackson

The first biography in decades of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence: a small-time lawyer--with one year of law school--who joined FDR's administration and became…

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W Keith Regular
Rough & Messy Justice

Rough & Messy Justice unravels a gripping true crime and legal drama set in the Crowsnest Pass of 1920. When three armed men rob a CPR train, their escape turns into a deadly gunfight, leaving officer…

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