This book analyses the informal decision making process in the EU against the background of a gradually emerging European legal order. Based on extensive multi-archival research in the UK, France, Germany, the Benelux countries and...Loe edasi...
This book gives extraordinary new insights into the legal, political and industrial strife in the UK of the early 1970s, focusing on the National Industrial Relations Court and how its independence came to be injured at a time of national crisi...Loe edasi...
Offering the first comprehensive account of the history and function of the common laws most legendary character, the book argues that the reasonable person is best understood as a legal device inviting those who apply it to take the perspective of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872126)
Examines the legality of assisted suicide in Canada. Should people have the right to medical assistance in dying? If so, under what conditions? Deciding on Death delves into the legal and political aspects of these controversial...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872768)
When the body of thirteen-year-old Linda Lampkin was found, raped and strangled, on Toronto’s industrial waterfront in 1956, locals feared a sex maniac was on the loose. Within a day, detectives announced the arrest of Robert Fitton. He was c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872843)
In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams a...Loe edasi...
Fascism is a well-defined historical phenomenon, but its political-ideological offshoots have extended into todays democracies. How should we understand the mimetic and dissimulating capacity of fascism? Starting from the analyses of the exponent...Loe edasi...
This is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work, and legacy of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), but it is not a traditional biography. Public curiosity about Hamilton, his life, and his work has swelled, particularly among those intrigued by p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487517441)
This book chronicles the breakdown of the marriage of Robert and Eliza Campbell, a couple living in Whitby, Ontario. Their case precipitated a six-year battle in the Ontario courts and the Parliament of Canada in the 1870s.In the Court of Common...Loe edasi...
Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This require...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197778432)
Discover the meteoric rise of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence, Robert H. Jackson, from self-trained lawyer to influential Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. First-hand accounts of life ‘inside’ chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell...Loe edasi...
First published in 1963, this title was an attempt to discover what had been learnt from a range of prison experience – taking prison to be any form of enforced separation from the world of normal life. Including chapters on mental asylum and hosp...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully whether an active policy of finding suitable employment for men immediately on their release from prison had beneficial results....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1977, this title attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the first five and a half years of the prison’s opening and as far as possible account for them. It was hoped that lessons could be dra...Loe edasi...
First published in 1934, this title was prepared in the belief that among the growing literature of crime and the treatment of crime, there should be some room for some account of the English prison system as it stood. Here is the authoritative an...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1985,this title is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day. It is one of the few attempts to provide an overall view of the instit...Loe edasi...
In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In The English Prisons, originally published in 1960, D.L. Howard used his knowledge of academic criminology and his practical experience of criminals of a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813079349)
The first book to document the story of Amy Mallard,who bravely sought justice for the lynching of her husband and became anadvocate for civil rights ...Loe edasi...
