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Law, Society, and History
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 102.00This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by a group of distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Lawrence M. Friedman. more...
Religion, Race, Rights
Hart Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 34.12The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights. more...
The East German Social Courts
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 170.00This book provides a record of the structures, functions, interactions, decisions, and personnel of the East German Social Courts. more...
The Trial
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom?and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt?s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of... more...
Black Trials
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 18.95From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning three centuries, Black Trials details the legal challenges and struggles that helped define the ever-shifting identity of blacks in America.... more...
All the Laws but One
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95In All the Laws but One , William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security. Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and the rights of man, suspended... more...
Deutsches Verfassungsrecht 1806 - 1918: Eine Dokumentensammlung nebst Einführungen, 3. Band: Berg und Braunschweig (German Edition)
Springer 2009; US$ 299.99Der Band dokumentiert das Verfassungsrecht des Großherzogtums Berg und des Herzogtums Braunschweig nahezu lückenlos. Dabei werden die historischen Verfassungsdokumente aus rechtlicher, zeitlicher, territorial übergreifender und entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive betrachtet. Enthalten sind insgesamt ca. 450 teilweise sehr heterogene Verfassungsdokumente,... more...
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 20.99Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been supplanted... more...
Repressive Jurisprudence in the Early American Republic
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 102.00Explains how America adopted the widely deplored Sedition Act of 1798 and how it undermined the political ideals of the American Revolution. more...
Custom as a Source of Law
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00This volume examines the role of custom in law, offering a fresh perspective on custom's enduring place in both domestic and international law. more...









