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Homosexual Law Reform
Anglicans were influential contributors to public debates about homosexual law reform during the 1950s and 1960s. The Church of England Moral Welfare...
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Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship
This chapter looks at German scholarship of Islamic law in Africa and shows how it systematically elided local Muslim jurisprudence. Whereas...
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Law and Justice
This chapter examines the outcome of trials for acid throwing and presents an overview of the sentences imposed on those convicted, to identify...
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Ernst Bloch and the Utopia of Law: A Bidimensional Concept of Human Dignity
The general goal of this text is to help establish more links between utopian studies and the philosophy of law, by showing that utopian thought can...
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Disability and consent in medieval law
This essay highlights the ways that legal fictions about the extent to which disability limits agency have historically been used to prevent women...
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Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and “Native Law”
This chapter details how the foundational legal order for the colonies emerged from a German constitutional conflict, which led to the creation of a...
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The Civil War, the Constitution and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
The autumn of 1922 witnessed two momentous and contradictory events. The first was the creation of the Irish Free State Constitution which guaranteed...
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The Notions Science and Physical Law
A defining description of science is offered. Roles of theory, models and the experiment. The physical law as representing the order inherent to...
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Thinking the French Revolution (and Law)
This chapter discusses how the French Revolution has been interpreted within political philosophy when it comes to the discussion of the issue of...
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Alternative Media After the Martial Law from 1987 to the Early 1990s
This chapter focuses on the role of alternative media in post-martial law in Taiwan during the late 1980s and 1990s and examines the political and...
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The Main Alternative Media in the Martial Law Period of Taiwan
This chapter explores the emergence of Taiwan’s first alternative media and their significant contribution to sha** independent cultural, social,...
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Republicans, Revolution and Law, 1795–1798
The direct counterpart of Chapter 3 , this chapter revisits the debates of the First Directory from a...
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Japanese International Lawyers and the Codification of International Law in the League of Nations
This chapter examines the involvement of the Japanese government and the Japanese Society of International Law (JSIL) in the League’s preparations...
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Witchcraft Acts: Condemnation of Sorcery in the Codes of Law
This chapter investigates how the issue of witchcraft has been addressed in Romanian law over time. In the early modern world, Romanians used codes...
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Statute Law
This chapter sets out the statutes of rape elopement and abduction, and identifies the main areas of contention that surround the subject. From the...
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“In an Overfurious Mood”: Emotion in Medieval Frisian Law and Life
Despite the rapid growth of the history of emotions over the past two to three decades, legal sources have only recently started to be analysed in...
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Political Actors Thanks to or Despite the Law? The Empowered Voices of Individuals in Nineteenth-Century Electoral Claims
This chapter analyses electoral claims in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, when voting rights were restricted by census requirements. It addresses...
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Illiberalism, Human Rights, and Rule of Law: A Kenyan Paradox
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue (La Rochefoucauld, 2009). While this appears to be the vox populi of Kenyans—elites and the hoi...
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Great Britain’s World War I Naval Blockade of Germany: International Law Versus the Trident of Neptune
Historical coverage of naval wars often rests on great battles between fleets but overlooks that navies greatly affect the course of war through...