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La primera edición de Teoría pura del derecho (1934) constituye una exposición sintética y rigurosa de la concepción teórico-jurídica de Hans Kelsen. En ella se presenta una teoría general del derecho «depurada» de toda «contaminación» extrajurídica proveniente de las ciencias empíricas y de las ideologías. El método que la «teoría pura del derecho» proclama como idóneo es el método positivista, normativista y formalista, y su...
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To a lawyer, injustice is the unfair conduct of a trial. This book looks into several notorious cases of supposed injustice, Socrates, Joan of Arc, Charles I, Admiral Byng, Lord Haw-Haw, and the Nuremberg Trials. It looks for answers to the legal question 'was the trial fair?', and the humane question 'was the accused guilty or innocent?'.
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True tales of executioners culled from the annals of history Award-winning mystery writer Howard Engel traces the hangman's tradition from medieval England and early Canada to the present-day United States. From beheadings and hangings to the electric chair, Engel offers gritty details of the executioner's process, focusing on key players who epitomize both the exemplars and buffoons of the dark profession. Citing far-removed examples of past punishments,...
4) The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Volume 2: From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples"
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James Hitchcock is Professor of History at St. Louis University. He is the author of six books, including Catholicism and Modernity.
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country...
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James Hitchcock is Professor of History at St. Louis University. He is the author of six books, including Catholicism and Modernity.
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country...
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Modern Protestant debates about spousal relations and the meaning of marriage began in a forgotten international dispute some 300 years ago. The Lutheran-Pietist ideal of marriage as friendship and mutual pursuit of holiness battled with the idea that submission defined spousal roles.
Exploiting material culture artifacts, broadsides, hymns, sermons, private correspondence, and legal cases on three continents - Europe, Asia, and North America - A....
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Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time magazine as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars Club, and the United States Senate. And as the attorney...
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Un exceptionnel partage d'expérience et un formidable espoir que représentent l'engagement et le respect absolu des droits humains !
Ce livre n'est ni une autobiographie proprement dite, ni un ouvrage de droit.
Il raconte le cheminement qui a conduit Luc Walleyn à s'engager pour les droits humains, à lutter contre l'impunité de ceux qui les piétinent, à prendre la défense de victimes de génocide, d'esclavage et d'autres crimes contre...
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Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself a cup of tea. At Cherry's trial at the Old Bailey in 1877, Henry Charlton Bastian, physician to the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic, focused his...
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"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, History Category" "Winner of the James Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law & Society Association" "Winner of the Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize" "Co-Winner – Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association" "Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association"
Jessica M. Marglin is associate professor of religion, history, and law and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair...
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A look at life in the court of King Louis XIV, the politics of the time, and the trial of a man who knew too much for his own good.
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all the major charges over the course of three long years,...
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An engrossing investigation into the true crime story of a sixteen-year family feud that ended in murder in early twentieth-century South Carolina.
As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina. Featuring a cast of unlikely antagonists-a prominent store owner, an elementary school teacher, and a law enforcement officer-the acts of revenge...
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In the mid-seventeenth century, judges in the short-lived New Haven Colony presided over a remarkable series of trials ranging from murder and bestiality, to drunken sailors, frisky couples, faulty shoes, and shipwrecks. The cases were reported in an unusually vivid manner, allowing readers to witness the twists and turns of fortune as the participants battled with life and liberty at stake.
When the records were eventually published in the 1850s,...
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