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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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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Synen på brottslingar och oskyldigt drabbade i samband med incest, våldtäkt och barnamord har varierat under århundradena. På 1930-talet sågs en flicka som utsattes för incest som medskyldig och så sent som på 1960-talet fanns det ingen statlig hj...

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Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment political thought and liberal political practice remain as shocking and significant today as when th...

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A Short History of European Law brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the E...

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Collecting together 47 essays from colleagues and friends of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, this book commemorates his work and contribution to law and legal scholarship, including his role as a judge of the UK Supreme Court and his interests in Roman...

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THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precisi...

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As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of international law have become increasingly heated. International Law and the Politics of History explores the ...

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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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Under hösten 2019 anordnades på Juridiska institutionen en doktorandkurs i rättshistoria för doktorander i juridik. Kursens huvudsakliga syfte var att presentera rättshistorieämnet ur olika infallsvinklar. Presentationerna gav en överblick olika m...

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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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When the US Constitution won widespread popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of decades of passionate argument about legal and political first principles-a furious debate over the nature of government and the rights and duties of citiz...

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How the political violence of modern jihad echoes the crises of western liberalism.

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Denna vänbok är tillägnad Carl Gustaf Spangenberg, universitetslektor i rättshistoria vid Juridiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet. Medverkande författare: Luisa Antoniolli, Jonas Christensen, Marianne Dahlén, Bruno Debaenst, Hans Eklund, Göre...

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The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the...

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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 Codex of Justinian is, together with the Digest, the core of the great Byzantine compilation of Roman law called the Corpus Iuris Civilis. The Codex compiles legal proclamations issued by Roman emperors from the second to the sixth centuries C...

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This book sketches the history of Roman private law from the Twelve Tables to modern times, and sets out the elements of the system. It does not attempt to summarize the whole law, but explains and evaluates its most characteristic and influential...

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Vem var Jack Uppskäraren? Hösten 1888 härjade Jack Uppskäraren i det fattiga East End i London. Hans makabra metoder att mörda och stympa fattiga prostituerade lamslog både invånare och polis, medan dåden var sprängstoff för tidningarnas sensation...

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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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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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Among the contributions of the medieval church to western culture was the idea that marriage was one of the seven sacraments, which defined the role of married folk in the church. Although it had ancient roots, this new way of regarding marriage r...

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The constitutional question is of paramount importance in the political and nationalist agenda of late twentieth-century Europe. Professor van Caenegem's new book addresses fundamental questions of constitutional organisation: democracy versus aut...

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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 settlement ente...

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The true story of an attempted bank robbery in Norco, California in 1980 which changed the face of American law enforcement.

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Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations...

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More and more people are turning to human rights courts to seek protection against prejudice, disadvantage or exclusion on account of their cultural and economic particularities. Human rights courts are thus increasingly faced with the difficult t...

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In this groundbreaking book, Martha C. Nussbaum brings necessary clarity to the societal challenges of sexual abuse and harassment, illuminating the pride and greed that lead men to objectify and dominate others and the thirst for revenge that can...

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Bokens händelser utspelar sig i Sotholms härad, som är en del av Södertörn med de gamla socknarna Tyresö, Dalarö, Österhaninge, Nämdö, Utö, Ornö, Västerhaninge, Muskö, Ösmo, Sorunda och Torö. Genom att gå igenom domböckerna från Sotholms härad frå...

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A powerful account of America's first mass mobilization, revealing how the homefront tensions of World War I dramatically changed the modern American state.

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