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Health and Safety in Contemporary Britain Society, Legitimacy, and Change since 1960
This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in post-1960 British public life. Since 2010 health and safety has appeared to be in...
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The History and Politics of Exhumation Royal Bodies and Lesser Mortals
This book argues that a serious, scholarly study on exhumation is long overdue. Examining more well-known cases, such as that of Richard III, the...
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The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens
This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most...
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A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960–1982
Swaziland—recently renamed Eswatini—is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent,...
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Verfassungsrechtsentwicklung aus rechtstatsächlicher Perspektive Das Ausmaß und die Grenzen effektiver Verfasstheit nach rechtlicher Eigenlogik und deren soziologischen Fundamente
Das Buch analysiert die tragenden Säulen der Verfassungsrechtsentwicklung auf empirischer Grundlage. Es baut dabei auf den Theorien Poppers, Kuhns...
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The Security Society History, Patriarchy, Protection
This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the ‘security society’ which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the...
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The Half Breed Tracts in Early National America Changing Concepts of Land and Place
In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American...
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Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other...
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Illiberal Transitional Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
This book examines the creation and operation of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), which is a hybrid...
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Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies
This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to...
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War Crimes Trials and Investigations A Multi-Disciplinary Introduction
This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to the...
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Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915 Culture, Strategy and International Law
This book examines Britain’s complex relationship with the mine in the years 1900-1915. The development of mine warfare represented a unique mix of...
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Transitional Justice Vergangenheitsbewältigung durch Recht
Dieses Buch bietet die erste systematische Gesamtdarstellung zum Thema Transitional Justice in deutscher Sprache. Der Ausdruck „Transitional Justice“...
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The Armenian Massacres of 1915–1916 a Hundred Years Later Open Questions and Tentative Answers in International Law
This peer-reviewed book features essays on the Armenian massacres of 1915-1916. It aims to cast light upon the various questions of international law...
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Writing the Victorian Constitution
This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English...
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The Western Codification of Criminal Law A Revision of the Myth of its Predominant French Influence
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th...
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Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II Decisive Constitutional Normativity From Old Liberties to New Precedence
This second volume of ReConFort, published open access, addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity, and focuses on discourses...
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Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932–1938 National, Commonwealth, and International Perspectives
The first of two volumes, this book examines constitutionalism in Ireland in the 1930s. Donal K. Coffey places the document and its drafters in the...
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Drafting the Irish Constitution, 1935–1937 Transnational Influences in Interwar Europe
The second of two volumes, this book situates the drafting of the Irish Constitution within broader transnational constitutional currents. Donal K....
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Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950 From Punishment to Welfare
This book explores the treatment of junevile offenders in modern Western history. The last few decades have witnessed major debates over youth...
