Search Results - Law

Cicero's Law : Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic /

Table of Contents: “…Part I. On law -- A Barzunesque view of Cicero : from giant to dwarf and back / Philip Thomas -- Reading a dead man's mind : Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric and Roman law / Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen -- Law's nature : philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings / Benedikt Forschner -- Part II. …”
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History and Power in the Study of Law : New Directions in Legal Anthropology /

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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 2: The Anti-Capitalist Sublime by Keeney, Gavin

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New Horizons in Spanish Colonial Law : Contributions to Transnational Early Modern Legal History /

Table of Contents: “…Spanish American and British American law as mirrors to each other : implications of the missing derecho Británico indiano /…”
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Sacred Men : Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam / by Camacho, Keith L.

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Literary Obscenities : U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism / by Bachman, Erik M., 1981-

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Maurice Sugar : Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 / by Johnson, Christopher H.

Table of Contents: “…Prison and Politics, 1918-23; 4. Law and the Class Struggle, 1924-32; 5. The Left Community and the Labor Movement, 1932-35; 6. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Dimensions for Legal History : Research Experiences and Itineraries /

Table of Contents: “…a tentative assessment / Pietro Costa -- Sobre el espacio y el tiempo y el estado de las personas : una mirada desde la historia del derecho / Javier Barrientos Grandon -- Local law and localization of law : Hispanic legal tradition and colonial culture (16th-18th Centuries) / Alejandro Agüero -- Uti possidetis, ita domini eritis. …”
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Diritto: storia e comparazione : Nuovi propositi per un binomio antico /

Subjects: “…Law. fast (OCoLC)fst00993678 2199…”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Buis -- A transnational empire built on law : the case of the commercial jurisprudence of the House of Trade of Seville (1583-1598) / Ana Belem Fernández Castro -- Entangled up in red, white, and blue : Spanish West Florida and the American territory of Orleans, 1803-1810 / Seán Patrick Donlan -- German colonial law and comparative law, 1884-1919 Jakob Zollmann -- Napoleon in America? …”
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While Waiting for Rain : Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change / by Schlegel, John Henry

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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One Word - Yak Kaleme : 19th Century Persian Treatise Introducing Western Codified Law / by Mustashār al-Dawlah, Yūsuf ibn Kāẓim, -1895 or 1896

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Außergerichtliche Konfliktlösung in der Antike : Beispiele aus drei Jahrtausenden /

Subjects: “…Roman law. pplt…”
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L'eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX) : L'impatto sulla cultura giuridica in prospettiva globale / by Fiocchi Malaspina, Elisabetta

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Pursuing Johns : Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930 / by Mackey, Thomas C., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…"To live correctly": themes and the significance of character -- "Only the Barbarian waits": New York City's committee of fourteen -- Drifted: feminist reformers and prostitution's changes in the twenties -- "The time has come": vagrancy law, police procedure, and proceeding against the customers -- People v. …”
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Derecho privado y modernización : América Latina y Europa en la primera mitad del siglo XX /

Table of Contents: “…Liberal constitution and the codification of private law at the turn of the 19th century in Brazil /…”
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Historia de la Revolución Mexicana, período 1914-1917 : la encrucijada de 1915 / by Ulloa, Berta

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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus -- Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war -- Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.…”
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