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"The Common Law" is a classic work from the great Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In The Common Law, Holmes examines many aspects of the common law giving great attention to the historical perspective and precedence and its influence on modern common law. In this work you will lengthy discussions on several areas of law including: liability, criminal law, torts, contracts, and successions. Extensively annotated, this edition of "The...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935) is ingrained in American history as one of the country's foremost jurists. Distinguished for his learning, judgment, humor, and eloquence, he served as justice of the United States Supreme Court for four decades. Throughout his career, Holmes forged new concepts of the origin and nature of law. He viewed the law as a social instrument rather than as a set of abstract principles, and his ideas were seminal in the...
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""Law," in this book, includes basic common law subjects (such as property, torts, and contracts), as well as statutory and constitutional issues, including issues associated with gender, race, and domestic relations. The domain of law also includes foundational issues of American political and social theory, such as sovereignty, liberty, equality, and criminal justice. It includes the evolving status and roles of members of the legal profession as...
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Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition to women lawyers as she tried cases in front of all-male juries, raised five children as a single mother, and stumped for political candidates. She was the first to propose the creation of a public defender...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" Stephen M. Griffin is Professor of Law at Tulane University.
Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience....
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La Guerra de Sucesión supuso para el reino valenciano encadenar dos legitimidades diferentes 'austríaca y borbónica' en un brevísimo espacio de tiempo, que finalizará en la revolución jurídica, institucional y política del proceso de Nueva Planta impuesto a fuego tras la victoria de Felipe V. Estas páginas examinan el tránsito, desde la aceptación del testamento de Carlos II a los primeros pasos de la reforma borbónica, de algunas de las...
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Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance from the gods or God and moving us toward the animals. In the current era, when we recognize ourselves and both humans and animals, sexual depiction has lost some of its sting. Its degrading role has been replaced by hate speech that distances groups,...
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Lawrence Rosen is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of Law at Columbia University. Named to the first group of MacArthur Fellows, he is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Among his previous books are The Anthropology of Justice, The Justice of Islam, and The Culture of Islam.
Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered...
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Dans le monde actuel globalisé, plus de deux milliards d'individus vivent sous le régime de la common law. Le prestige des États (États-Unis, Royaume-Uni, Australie, etc.) qui utilisent cette procédure, la langue que ces mêmes États ont en partage et l'importance des débats et enjeux qui se jouent au prétoire, font du procès de common law un élément de l'actualité journalière. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de permettre une meilleure compréhension...
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Quand dire, c'est faire...
Quand dire le droit, c'est faire justice...
Mais quel droit, et quelle justice?
Comment saisir le rle du juge, au terme de décennies d'évolution profonde qui ont entraîné à la fois la transformation de son office et une formidable montée en puissance de ses décisions? François OST, observateur attentif de ces évolutions, tente de répondre à cette question dans la dizaine d'études ici rassemblées, échelonnées...
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Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centered criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system -- dominated by the police and public prosecutor -- that replaced it. He offers a major reinterpretation of criminal justice in nineteenth-century America by examining this transformation from private to state prosecution and analyzing the discontinuity between the two systems.Steinberg...
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La insurrección griega de 1823 permitió la emergencia de una anomalía fundacional: entre la inacción, cómplice de las atrocidades cometidas contra los rebeldes, y la intervención bélica, que violaba el principio del equilibrio de poderes, los países europeos procedieron al reconocimiento de la beligerancia. Desde entonces, este instrumento consuetudinario del derecho internacional ha desempeñado un papel crucial y dramático: la guerra de...
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Almost since the beginning of the republic, America's rigorous separation of powers among Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches has been umpired by the federal judiciary. It may seem surprising, then, that many otherwise ordinary cases are not decided in court even when they include allegations that the President, or Congress, has violated a law or the Constitution itself. Most of these orphan cases are shunned by the judiciary simply because...
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El territorio como construcción intelectual siempre ha ocupado un lugar importante en los estudios realizados desde el Derecho y la Ciencia Política, puesto que este constituye al mismo tiempo un ámbito de regulación, un espacio para la acción del Estado y un referente de identidad. Teniendo en cuenta estos elementos y los múltiples interrogantes que plantea la noción de territorio, los profesores de la División de Ciencias Jurídicas de la...
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Americans have long been obsessed with their images-their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to feel good about your image and public presentation of self. These include the legal actions against invasion of privacy, libel, and intentional infliction of emotional...
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Esta obra constituye un estudio sobre los orígenes, desarrollo y mutuas influencias entre el Common Law y el Civil Law. El autor analiza el proceso de desarrollo jurídico de sus sistemas legales y compara los enfoques y acontecimientos históricos que, en su momento, fueron trascendentales para la evolución de cada uno de ellos.
El libro representa un estudio minucioso acerca del papel que desempeñan los jueces, legisladores y profesores en la...
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Get the Summary of David Farber's The War on Drugs in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The War on Drugs" by David Farber traces the complex history of drug regulation and prohibition in the United States, from the early 20th century to the present day. The book examines the ambivalent attitudes toward substances like alcohol, opium, cocaine, heroin, and cannabis, leading to various legislative efforts to control...
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Depuis les années 1950 les théories de l'argumentation ont insisté sur le fait que le raisonnement juridique ne se réduisait pas à de la pure logique. Le syllogisme, la définition, le modus ponens ne suffisaient décidément plus à dessiner le contour des arguments. De strictement logique, la théorie de l'argumentation est devenue, ou redevenue, topique : tous les arguments sont perçus comme pouvant être défaits. Le présent ouvrage réagit...
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Invitado por la Escuela de Criminología de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, en 1981 Michel Foucault dicta las seis clases del curso "Obrar mal, decir la verdad. Función de la confesión en la justicia", en un contexto marcado por los debates entre abolicionistas y partidarios de posiciones de "mano dura" en torno a la reforma del Código Penal. En ese sentido, el curso contribuye a socavar el discurso criminológico de la peligrosidad. Pero...
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The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact of inheritance is more than a matter of money; it is also a matter of what money buys and brings about. Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on...
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