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  • A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine

    Imperialism, Property and Insurgency

    British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic ‘native question’, and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of cultural representations as pronounced within official correspondence and colonial laws and ... Read more

    76,43 €

  • Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850

    Edited by David Lemmings ...
    Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers, with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity, where facts are found and legal rules are impartially applied to administer justice. Recent historical scholarship has shown that in England lawyers only began to appear in ordinary criminal trials during the eighteenth century, however, and earlier trials often ... Read more

    53,00 €

  • Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law

    Raw Law

    by Irene Watson ...
    Series series Indigenous Peoples and the Law
    This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in Aboriginal people’s complex relationship with their ancestral lands. This is Raw Law: a natural system of obligations and benefits, flowing from an ... Read more

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  • Development Control

    by Keith Thomas ...
    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects. Drawing widely on the literature - the approach and treatment are very much geared to the needs of students on courses, rather than focusing on practical and "how-to-do-it" issues. It should be of interest to students in schools of planning, the built environment, estate management, land ... Read more

    76,43 €

  • The Profession and Practice of Medieval Canon Law

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This latest collection of studies by James Brundage deals with the emergence of the profession of canon law and with aspects of its practice in the period from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Substantial numbers of lawyers systematically trained in canon law first appeared in Western Europe during the second half of the 12th, century and in the 13th they began to dominate the hierarchy of the ... Read more

    72,73 €

  • Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe

    England and Germany, 1530–1680

    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Recent research has begun to highlight the importance of German arguments about legitimate resistance and self-defence for French, English and Scottish Protestants. This book systematically studies the reception of German thought in England, arguing that it played a much greater role than has hitherto been acknowledged. Both the Marian exiles, and others concerned with the fate of continental ... Read more

    59,17 €

  • The Trespasser's Companion

    by Nick Hayes ...
    'The countryside ought to be for everyone, and this beautiful, thoughtful companion can help us all start to forge paths into the forgotten corners of our green, pleasant and often inaccessible land' Catrina Davies, author of HomesickThe Trespasser's Companion is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently seditious guide to how to get it: by trespassing.We are excluded from ... Read more

    10,91 €

  • Medicine and Justice

    Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700–1914

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history. It does this through the lens provided by one group of historical actors, medical professionals who gave evidence in criminal proceedings. They are the means of illuminating the developing methods and ... Read more

    59,17 €

  • Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters

    Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks

    For more than forty years Nicholas Brooks has been at the forefront of research into early medieval Britain. In order to honour the achievements of one of the leading figures in Anglo-Saxon studies, this volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are ... Read more

    72,73 €

  • Infanticide

    Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550–2000

    Edited by Mark Jackson ...
    The history of infanticide from the 16th through to the late 20th century is the subject of this volume. Collectively, the contributions explore how the concealment of pregnancy, birth and death, particularly by unmarried women, became a central preoccupation of witnesses, doctors, courts and legislatures concerned with suspicious infant deaths. While the emphasis is upon Britain, original and ... Read more

    59,17 €

  • Sorcellerie et justice criminelle

    Le Parlement de Paris (16e–18e siècles)

    by Alfred Soman ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The Parlement of Paris was the largest secular court in Christendom. Although its criminal archives have been preserved virtually intact, historians of the period of the great witch trials, as well as scholars of the Ancien Régime in general, have been discouraged by the notorious difficulties of research into them, and have effectively avoided these records. Alfred Soman was the first historian ... Read more

    72,73 €

  • Seaside Dream Home Besieged

    Scenic Preservation Mandates and Property Rights in Collision, a Case History, and Proposed Land-Use Reforms

    Captivated by the spectacular natural beauty of northern Californias Mendocino coast, the author and his wife, Margie, residents of Virginia, purchase a magnificent eleven-acre promontory high above the Pacific Ocean near the remote village of Elk. On retiring years later, they decide to build their dream home there. Seeking no more than whats sanctioned by law, they nevertheless encounter fierce ... Read more

    8,68 €

  • Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

    Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school.Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise ... Read more

    54,23 €

  • Teaching Law and Criminal Justice Through Popular Culture

    A Deep Learning Approach in the Streaming Era

    This volume shows how university and college professors can create an engaging environment that encourages students to take a deep approach to learning through the use of popular culture stories in law school and in criminal justice classrooms. The use of popular culture (films, TV shows, books, songs, etc.) can enhance the deep learning process by helping students develop cognitive skills, ... Read more

    133,15 €

  • Democracy in Iraq

    History, Politics, Discourse

    This book proposes a significant reassessment of the history of Iraq, documenting democratic experiences from ancient Mesopotamia through to the US occupation. Such an analysis takes to task claims that the 'West' has a uniquely democratic history and a responsibility to spread democracy across the world. It also reveals that Iraq has a democratic history all of its own, from ancient Middle ... Read more

    71,49 €

  • Droit et coutume en France aux XIIe et XIIIe siécles

    by André Gouron ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This third volume by André Gouron brings together a widely scattered set of articles on Roman law in medieval France and its influence. The first group of papers is concerned with the medieval history of Roman law itself, while the two following sections look at how it contributed to the (perfectionnement) of canon law, on the one hand, and to the emergence of customary law on the other. As the ... Read more

    48,07 €

  • The Commons in a Glocal World

    Global Connections and Local Responses

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally.Most of the research on the management of commons pool ... Read more

    66,56 €

  • The Council of Bourges, 1225

    A Documentary History

    by Richard Kay ...
    Series series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
    Never before had France had a church council so large: almost 1000 churchmen assembled at Bourges on 29 November 1225 to authorize a tax on their incomes in support of the Second Albigensian Crusade. About one third of the participants were representatives sent by corporate bodies, in accordance with a new provision of canon law that insisted, for the first time ever, that there should be no ... Read more

    59,17 €

  • Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy

    Strategies, Successes, and Challenges

    Series series Legal Pedagogy
    This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to "decolonise" legal education across the world.With a specific focus on post- and decolonial thought and anti-racist methods in pedagogy, this edited collection provides an accessible illustration of pedagogical innovation in teaching and learning law. Chapters cover civil and common law legal ... Read more

    51,77 €

  • Educating for Well-Being in Law

    Positive Professional Identities and Practice

    Series series Emerging Legal Education
    Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law. The chapters include innovative and tested research methodologies ... Read more

    57,93 €

  • Contested Property Claims

    What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership

    Series series Social Justice
    Property relations are such a common feature of social life that the complexity of the web of laws, practices, and ideas that allow a property regime to function smoothly are often forgotten. But we are quickly reminded of this complexity when conflict over property erupts. When social actors confront a property regime – for example by squatting – they enact what can be called ‘contested property ... Read more

    60,40 €

  • The World of the Tavern

    Public Houses in Early Modern Europe

    The subject of drink received a great deal of attention from early modern Europeans. Preachers, physicians, authorities, artists and travellers all addressed it from a range of different perspectives. At the same time, inns, taverns and alehouses served as multifunctional centres in towns and villages throughout Europe. This combination resulted in a wealth of sources, both institutional and ... Read more

    53,00 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society

    This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics, and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property.Property touches on many fundamental human questions. It involves decisions about power, economy, morality, work, and ecology. It also involves ideas about where humans fit in the world and how humans relate to more-than-human life. This book will ... Read more

    61,63 €

  • Disability Law for Property, Land Use, and Zoning Lawyers

    More importantly, the author focuses on clearing up the confusion that is often associated with thinking that disability law is really just about designing doorways, bathrooms, and office space. While design issues are important to accessibility, there are many legal issues involved with knowing when certain elements of the law are applicable to a situation and in knowing what needs to be done to ... Read more

    36,88 €