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University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00In Trying Biology , Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology... more...
Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689-1750
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 115.00The book demonstrates how the 'common law mind' was able to meet the various challenges posed by Enlightenment rationalism and civic and commercial discourse, revealing that the common law played a much wider role beyond the legal world in shaping Enlightenment concepts. more...
Restoring Justice
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 36.00In the wake of Watergate, Gerald Ford appointed eminent lawyer and scholar Edward H. Levi to the post of attorney general—and thus gave him the onerous task of restoring legitimacy to a discredited Department of Justice. Levi was famously fair-minded and free of political baggage, and his inspired addresses during this tumultuous time were critical... more...
Arbitrary Rule
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 44.00Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule , Mary Nyquist... more...
Law, War & Crime
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.95From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milošević and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict. In his new book, Law, War and Crime, Gerry Simpson explores the meaning and effect of such trials, and places them in their broader political... more...
Signposts
University of Georgia Press 2013; US$ 26.95In Signposts , Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in... more...
Vertragszwang und Vertragsfreiheit im Recht der Arbeit von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Moderne
Vittorio Klostermann 2013; US$ 95.98Hauptbeschreibung Die Unterscheidung zwischen Freiheit und Sklaverei spielt in Rechtsgeschichten der Arbeit eine oft prägende Rolle. Diese Studie widmet sich der Ebene dazwischen, indem sie die Frage nach Freiheit und Zwang in Dienstverhältnissen vertraglich gebundener Arbeitskräfte stellt. Untersucht wird die in vielfältige statusgebundene Normenbereiche... more...
Briefwechsel Wilhelm Arnold und Andreas Heusler
Vittorio Klostermann 2013; US$ 52.85Hauptbeschreibung Der von Karl Kroeschell und Dorothee Mußgnug herausgegebene Briefwechsel zwischen den Rechtshistorikern Wilhelm Arnold (1826-1883) und Andreas Heusler (1834-1921) setzt 1858 ein, als beide in Basel tätig waren. Nach Arnolds Berufung an seine alte Marburger Fakultät übernahm Heusler 1863 den freigewordenen Lehrstuhl. In der bis zu... more...
Kulturelle Vielfalt als Legitimitätselement der internationalen Gemeinschaft
Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 85.20Hauptbeschreibung Carla Thies untersucht die Funktion und Bedeutung des Begriffs der Legitimität im Bereich des Völkerrechts am Beispiel der Thematik kultureller Vielfalt. Mit dem Begriff der Legitimität wird rechtstheoretisch die Vorstellung verknüpft, dass das positive Völkerrecht von bestimmten, von ihm bereits vorausgesetzten Interessen und Grundprinzipien... more...
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Dundurn 2013; US$ 24.99Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many hard lives, his escape from each wrapped in deep secrecy. In 1869 he reached Toronto and started his new life with his new wife and his new name. His great-grandson follows that journey, revealing Jelfs' well-hidden tracks and the reasons for his double life. more...
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