Rättshistoria

Lyder ni lagarna? Har ni läst dem? Om inte – hur vet ni då om ni lyder dem? Förmodligen därför att era värderingar överensstämmer ganska väl med lagarna. Är det de svenska värderingarna...

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Fram till mitten av 1960-talet användes uttrycket femfemma ofta som en vardagsterm i brottmål. Det syftade på strafflagens 5 kap. 5 § och innebar att en person som gjort sig skyldig till en brottslig handling under inflytande av psykisk sjukdom el...

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Genom Föreningen för Västgötalitteratur och professor Per-Axel Wiktorsson utges här den Äldre Västgötalagen, handskrift B 59 i Kungl. Biblioteket. Lagen finns tidigare utgiven, men då endast själva lagtexten utan alla de förtydligande omgivande te...

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The sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise ...

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The Templars fought against Islam in the crusader east for nearly two centuries. During that time the original small band grew into a formidable army, backed by an extensive network of preceptories in the Latin West. In October 1307, the members o...

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A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is laws power in global life? What does a...

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Under namnet Den Bestickande Teorin lanserar den västgötske modernhistorikern Göran B. Nilsson i Nytt ljus över Västgötalagen en helt ny syn på lagen och dess tillkomsthistoria. Båda har, alltifrån CJ Schlyters och H S Collins textutgåva 1827 och ...

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'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence 'A woma...

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Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settl...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year MATTHEW DANCONA, EVENING STANDARD 'The first serious and consistently readable biography of StarmerIt is a wonder that he has said so much to Baldwin...

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"When is one thing 'substantially similar' to another? This Zen-ish question is at the heart of Jordan S. Rubin's exposé of a little-known side battle in the war on drugs. A narcotics prosecutor turned journalist (a huge improvement), Rubin t...

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Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-...

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Fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, the authoritative reference point for the state of comparative law today. The Handbook contains forty-eight chapters, each written by a leading expert and providin...

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What is the nature of law as a form of social order? What bearing do values like justice, human rights, and the rule of law have on law? Which values should law serve, and what limits must it respect in serving them? Are we always morally bound to...

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In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty,and your life,can depend on the right calculation.In Math on Trial ...

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A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamousSpeer, Hess, and Gring. This account sets the scene by explaining the procedures, the legal context, and the ...

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This study of the long-term history of law-making aims at a better understanding of the cultural dynamics of human society as reflected in the efforts made to regulate human interaction. Through a systematic comparative study of 4,000 years of law...

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Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of haaramah, a subset of rabbinic legal circumventions mostly d...

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The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of Gods creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as part of their training, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets i...

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Under långt mer än 350 år har Göta hovrätt utövat sin dömande verksamhet på en och samma plats i Jönköping. Detta har gett upphov till en rik och spännande historia. Helt säkert är det många av dem som upplever domstolsmiljön i dag som också känne...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath show...

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Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slaves, brothels, sex traffickers, the cost of sex, co...

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The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past. When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1...

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I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins. Ideas honed in slavery of the otherness, the boorishness, the inferiority of thy neighb...

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A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023 A Waterstones Best True Crime Book Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of local wives conspiring together, and one woman at the centre of it all In 1929, a dark secret at the heart of...

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From the New York Times 's Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day,...

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The Ex Post Facto Clause, one of the few civil liberty protections found in the body of the US Constitution, reflects the Framers' acute concern over the tendency of legislatures to enact burdensome retroactive laws targeting unpopular individuals...

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In Heaven Has Eyes, Xiaoqun Xu provides a comprehensive yet concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Xu addresses the evolution and function of law codes and judicial practices throughout China's long h...

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