Rättshistoria

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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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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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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The Spycatcher affair remains one of the most intriguing moments in the history of British intelligence and a pivotal point in the public's relationship with the murky world of espionage and security. It lifted the lid on alleged Soviet infil...

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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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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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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...

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Denna bok utgör en lättillgänglig introduktion till den svenska rättsvetenskapens historia. Fokus ligger på den svenska rätts¿vetenskapen i en västerländsk kontext, därför uppmärksammas även den kontinentaleuropeiska utvecklingen i den mån den har...

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The rediscovery of Roman law and the emergence of classical canon law around AD 1100 marked the beginnings of the civil law tradition in Europe. Between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, a highly sophisticated legal science of a truly European...

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A delight from start to finish SUNDAY TIMES A triumph of ingenuity DAILY MAIL I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a joy S.J. BENNETT, author of THE WINDSOR KNOT When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exac...

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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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THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'This will be the most important political book of the year MATTHEW DANCONA, EVENING ST...

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Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and the material in our understanding of international law. Approaching 'civilisation' as an argumentative pattern re...

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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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A masterly work of military and judicial history. New York Times. Telford Taylors book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century. In 1945, t...

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In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving ...

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This book provides an easy way for members of the legal profession to acquire a basic understanding of the most common methods that serve as the building blocks for empirical evidence in academic articles, policy briefs, and expert witness reports.

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Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course o...

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Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial "Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell the kind of spel...

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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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In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Introducing the term judicial terri...

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A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is laws power in global life? What does a...

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Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, an...

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In the contemporary domain of American legal thought there is a dominant way in which lawyers and judges craft their argumentative practice. More colloquially, this is a dominant conception of what it means to 'think like a lawyer'. Despite the wi...

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Although environmental laws are rarely able to provide the simple solutions that people want from them, they are essential for the future of our planet. This book explores how legal responses are shaped in response to the problems facing the envir...

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The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg u...

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Den karibiska ön S:t Barthelemy var svensk koloni 1784-1878. I boken skildras hur rättskipningen och förvaltningen i vid bemärkelse var organiserad på ön under den svenska tiden. Frågor som behandlas är bl.a. hur den lokala konseljen fungerade båd...

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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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In The Corporation, Law and Capitalism, Grietje Baars offers a radical Marxist perspective on the role of law in the global political economy. Closing a major gap in historical-materialist scholarship, Baars demonstrates how the corporation, capit...

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