Rättshistoria

Rekommenderad av Leif G W Persson i Veckans Brott Det är som att se rakt ner i 1600-talet genom små titthål Lars Linder, Dagens Nyheter Hur tänkte och kände egentligen människor förr i tiden? Om man fick lära känna dem, skulle man då förstå dem? H...

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Lyder ni lagarna? Har ni läst dem? Om inte - hur vet ni då om ni lyder dem? Förmodligen därför att era värderingar överensstämmer ganska väl med lagarna. Är det de svenska värderingarna? Knappast. Sådan är upptakten till denna gedigna exposé över ...

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of recent developments across criminology and criminal justice. Chapters examine methodological and theoretical approaches to crim...

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I dagens samhällsdebatt, i media och vetenskaplig forskning, uppmärksammas människors utsatthet för våldsbrott som ett mycket allvarligt problem. Utmärkande för det offentliga samtalet är dess skarpa fokusering på den våldsamme mannen. Mäns utsatt...

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Denna femte översedda och ombrutna upplaga innehåller för första gången illustrationerna ur den franska originalutgåvan. Varför intar fängelset en så dominerande plats i dagens straffsystem? Den frågan står i centrum för Michel Foucaults Övervakni...

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This Very Short Introduction demonstrates the pivotal role of law in American life. Chapters focus on the legal history of Indian tribes, slavery, property rights, the relationship of law to entrepreneurial activity, crimes and punishments, domest...

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What is the nature of law as a form of social order? What bearing do values like justice, human rights, and the rule of law have on law? Which values should law serve, and what limits must it respect in serving them? Are we always morally bound to...

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Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settl...

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A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today. Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies a...

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Under långt mer än 350 år har Göta hovrätt utövat sin dömande verksamhet på en och samma plats i Jönköping. Detta har gett upphov till en rik och spännande historia. Helt säkert är det många av dem som upplever domstolsmiljön i dag som också känne...

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Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settl...

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Law touches every aspect of our daily lives, and yet the main concepts, terms, and processes of the legal system remain obscure to many. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, provides a lucid, accessible guide to modern legal system...

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The first detailed appraisal of Norse assembly sites, providing detailed discussion of their archaeological profile and landscape setting Listen to Alex Sanmark discuss 'Thingvellir and Viking Assembly Sites' on The History of Vikings podcast. Unt...

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The fourth edition of this acclaimed textbook addresses the developments in English contract law since the last edition, including the impact of the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union, and new case law on the role of good faith, the doct...

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This book restores the role of lawyers to the operation of American foreign relations and international law and the making of American empire from the Philippines through the eve of World War II.

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In a makeshift courtroom set up inside Hitler's first concentration camp, Denson was charged with building a team from lawyers who had no background in war crimes and determining charges for crimes that courts had never before confirmed. Among the...

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Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speechexcept the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues p...

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No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights. Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness. George Soros The age of human ...

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In this book eminent constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt tells the stories of thirteen presidents whom most Americans do not remember and scholars think had no constitutional impact, among them Chester Arthur, Martin Van Buren, and William How...

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Under namnet Den Bestickande Teorin lanserar den västgötske modernhistorikern Göran B. Nilsson i Nytt ljus över Västgötalagen en helt ny syn på lagen och dess tillkomsthistoria. Båda har, alltifrån CJ Schlyters och H S Collins textutgåva 1827 och ...

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This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during the nineteenth century and its impact on legislation. It is an accessible attempt by an Edwardian li...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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Genom Föreningen för Västgötalitteratur och professor Per-Axel Wiktorsson utges här den Äldre Västgötalagen, handskrift B 59 i Kungl. Biblioteket. Lagen finns tidigare utgiven, men då endast själva lagtexten utan alla de förtydligande omgivande te...

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Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternative...

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In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great peace treaties from the Renais...

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Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath show...

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Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slaves, brothels, sex traffickers, the cost of sex, co...

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The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from ...

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Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy. A: You mumbled on the first part of that and I ...

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The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indi...

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