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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935) is generally considered one of the two greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall being the other. In more than 2000 opinions, he delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Esta investigación no pretende hacer una historia normativa del instituto procesal del juramento, aunque no pueda desvincularse de la norma para entender el marco desde el cual se habla. Tampoco es una investigación de la historia de las ideas, aunque algo de ello se presenta en el primer capítulo. Por el contrario, esta investigación analiza un tipo especial de juramento, el que se hace dentro del expediente judicial, sobre todo el que se hace...
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LasSiete Partidas es un cuerpo normativo redactado en Castilla, durante el reinado de Alfonso X (1252-1284), también conocido como Alfonso el Sabio, con el objetivo de dar uniformidad jurídica al Reino. Su nombre original era Libro de las Leyes, y hacia el siglo XIV recibió su actual denominación, por las secciones en que se encuentra dividida.
Constan como su nombre lo indica de siete partidas propiamente dichas, cada una contiene sus leyes respectivas.
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In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international media coverage. Public interest eventually died out, and the Hills went back to their ordinary, obscure lives. Until, a few years later, the Hills were...
14) The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth
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William R. Casto sheds a new light on America's federal judiciary and the changing legal landscape with his detailed examination of the Supreme Court's formative years. In a study that spans the period from the Court's tentative beginnings through the appointment of its third chief justice, Casto reveals a judicial body quite different in orientation and philosophy from the current Supreme Court and one with a legacy of enduring significance for the...
15) Entre el control de la criminalidad y el debido proceso: Una historia del proceso penal colombiano
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Este libro presenta un análisis original y profundo de los códigos de procedimiento penal colombianos expedidos desde 1938. La autora nos invita a estudiar estos códigos a partir de dos modelos opuestos de valores, principios y creencias frente al sistema de justicia penal: el control de la criminalidad y el debido proceso. Usando estos modelos, el libro revela las decisiones políticas y elecciones valorativas en cada código, teniendo en cuenta...
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What exactly is intelligence? Is it social achievement? Professional success? Is it common sense? Or the number on an IQ test?
Interweaving engaging narratives with dramatic case studies, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., has written a history of intelligence that will forever change the way we think about who is smart and who is not. To give weight to his assertion that intelligence is not simply an inherent characteristic but rather one which reflects the...
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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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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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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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