Rättshistoria
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18 230 produkter
Pocket, Svenska, 2015
89 kr
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Rekommenderad av Leif G W Persson i Veckans Brott Det är som att se rakt ner i 1600-talet genom små titthål Lars Linder, Dagens Nyheter Hur tänkte och kände egentligen människor förr i tiden? Om man fick lära känna dem, skulle man då förstå dem? Historikern Annika Sandén har utgått från rättsfall från längesedan som speglar vanliga människors oro, längtan och drömmar.
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
301 kr
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Denna bok utgör en lättillgänglig introduktion till den svenska rättsvetenskapens historia. Fokus ligger på den svenska rättsvetenskapen i en västerländsk kontext, därför uppmärksammas även den kontinentaleuropeiska utvecklingen i den mån den har påverkat svensk rättstradition. Inledningsvis görs en utblick på den romerska rättsvetenskapens historia och dess starka påverkan på den separation mellan religion och juridik som präglar västerländsk rättstradition. Vidare behandlas den medeltida skolastiken, naturrätten samt rättspositivismens framväxt som rättsvetenskapens dominerande paradigm. Boken avslutas med ett kapitel om den skandinaviska rättsrealismen.Boken är lämplig för studenter som läser såväl grundkurser som avancerade kurser i allmän rättslära och rättshistoria.Bilden på omslaget är en målning av Jean Fouquet som avbildar rättegången mot Johan II, hertigen av Alencon, i Vendôme år 1458.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
145 kr
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'An indelible and enthralling work of moral witness' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'These questions of memory and impunity are forever timely' FINANCIAL TIMES'An extraordinary achievement . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart' STEPHEN FRYThe house at 38 Londres Street in Santiago, Chile, is home to the legacies of two men whose personal stories span continents, nationalities and decades of atrocity: Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, and Walther Rauff, a Nazi SS officer responsible for the use of gas vans. In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands blends personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe a secret double story of mass murder, one that reveals a shocking link between the horrors of the 1940s with those of our own times. In so doing, he reveals an untold and astonishing tale of the legacy of unchecked criminality and the road to impunity.'Combines the tone of the thriller with an astute and dramatic account of a most complex and fascinating legal case. A brilliant and important book' COLM TOIBIN
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
309 kr
År 1668 släpps Satans raseri lös i Sverige. Plötsligt anklagas kvinnor för häxeri och samvaro med djävulen. Huvudstaden sänder ut en trolldomskommission med rätt att utmäta dödsstraff. Domarna börjar falla – och det blir gnistan som får häxbålen att flamma upp över hela landet. »Det stora oväsendet« har inletts. Och innan det tystnar, ska närmare 300 kvinnoliv ha släckts. Häxor handlar om trolldomens historia, de svenska häxprocesserna i allmänhet och det stora oväsendet i synnerhet. I fiktiva fotografier ställs läsaren öga mot öga med offrens uppfordrande blickar och jämte de trollbindande bilderna löper faktaberättelsen om en av svensk historias största rättsskandaler.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
194 kr
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In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands blends personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe a secret double story of mass murder, one that reveals a shocking thread that links the horrors of the 1940s with those of our own times. The house at 38 Londres Street is home to the legacies of two men whose personal stories span continents, nationalities and decades of atrocity: Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, and Walther Rauff, a Nazi SS officer responsible for the use of gas vans.On the run from justice at the end of the Second World War, Rauff crosses the ocean to southern Chile. He settles in Punta Arenas, Patagonia, managing a king crab cannery at the end of the world. But there are whispers about this discreet and self-possessed German - rumours of a second career with Pinochet's secret intelligence service, the dreaded DINA.In 1998, Pinochet is in a London medical clinic when the police enter his room and arrest him on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide. Philippe Sands is called to advise the former head of state on his claim to immunity, but will instead represent a human rights organisation against him. Years later, Sands makes a discovery while working on another book which reignites his interest in the case and leads to a decades-long investigation into Pinochet's crimes, his unexpected connection to Rauff and the former Nazi's possible connection to Chile's disappeared.
Häftad, Svenska, 2017
237 kr
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Denna femte översedda och ombrutna upplaga innehåller för första gången illustrationerna ur den franska originalutgåvan.
Varför intar fängelset en så dominerande plats i dagens straffsystem? Den frågan står i centrum för Michel Foucaults Övervakning och straff (Surveiller et punir), den kanske mest inflytelserika i hans långa rad av civilisationskritiska undersökningar.
Den övergång från brutala kroppsstraff till fängelsestraff, som upplysningsmännen såg som en seger för humanism och förnuft, vill Foucault tvärtom se som följden av en ny och effektivare disciplinering av människorna. Denna strävan går igen på en rad områden, från 1600-talet och framåt: skolväsendet, arméerna och inte minst fabrikerna. När kroppsstraffen ersätts med fängelsestraff och fångvård innebär det att en äldre form av maktutövning ersätts av en ny och än mer långtgående, som ytterst syftar till människornas fullständiga normalisering och anpassning till det nya produktionssystemets krav. I fängelseinstitutionen får alla dessa tendenser sitt mest fullödiga uttryck.
I ett språk som vibrerar av patos och inlevelse med de förtryckta och plågade illustrerar Foucault sina teser med skakande inblickar i straffets och disciplineringens historia.
I en inledning till boken ger Sune Sunesson en klargörande presentation av Foucaults tänkande.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
186 kr
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
222 kr
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"Det dånar uti rättens krater" är ett citat som speglar att något genomgripande håller på att ske. I den här boken är det rätten domstolar, lagar och juridiska organ som bryts emot det traditionella politiska samhällets makt. Har juridik och politik fått förändrade positioner i Sverige från 1900-talets mitt och framåt?
Socialdemokraterna regerade mellan 1932 och 1976 på en samhällsmodell som skapats av arbetarrörelsen, partiet och LO. Här visar historikern Torbjörn Nilsson på den ökade betydelsen av juridisk granskning, nya prövningar av mänskliga rättigheter och medlemskapet i EU och i Nato. Glidningarna i politiskt fokus har urholkat den tidigare samhällsformen, oavsett om den kallas folkhemmet, den svenska modellen eller välfärdsstaten.
Att lagstiftning och domstolarnas ställning förändrats har undgått historikerna och kulturens debattörer trots de omvälvande följderna av skiftet. Kan ett ökat inflytande från jurister parallellt med stärkta medborgerliga rättigheter komma att försvaga den gamla samhällsmodellen ytterligare? Eller skapas kanske en blandning där nya maktförhållanden smälts ihop med gamla och leder till ett nytt folkhem?
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
200 kr
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Polismodern i Malexander, Göteborgskravallerna och avrättningen i Syrien 2013; detta är bara tre av de våldsdåd där förövarna är höger- och vänsterextremister eller som tillhör den våldsbejakande islamistiska miljön. Våldsdåden är så många fler, Drottninggatan förvandlades till en krigszon, psykiatrisamordnaren Ing-Marie Wieselgren knivmördades på öppen gata under Almedalsveckan, alla minns nog Lasermannen på 1990-talet.
I denna bok har 50 år av extremistbrott närstuderats. Motiven är inte bara ideologiskt renläriga, utan även alkohol spelar även in, liksom psykisk ohälsa, grupptryck, knivbeväpning och situationer som spårat ur. Boken har många referenser till domstolarnas slutgiltiga domar. Men hoten startar ofta i de extrema miljöerna till höger, vänster eller från islamistiskt håll.
Författaren Lars Korsell har följt denna tilltagande brottslighet, även om dåden inte varit mindre allvarliga eller mindre synliga tidigare. Fallen från 1970-talet och framåt är många. Själv är Lars Korsell jurist och docent i kriminologi och forskare vid Brottsförebyggande rådet (Brå) och har en bakgrund både från domstolar, departement och statliga utredningar. Bokens förord har Anna-Lena Lodenius skrivit, och efterordet Robert Kindroth.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
265 kr
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Standardverket om det tyska rättssystemet under nazisterna och hur följsamt det var och hur lite motstånd det erbjöd. En klassiker som klart och begripligt för lekmannen beskriver hela det tyska rättssystemets elände på 1900-talet.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
372 kr
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Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society’s other rules.Reinvigorating ideas from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, and drawing on empirical research as well as philosophical analysis, Schauer presents an account of legal compliance based on sanction and compulsion, showing that law’s effectiveness depends fundamentally on its coercive potential. Law, in short, is about telling people what to do and threatening them with bad consequences if they fail to comply. Although people may sometimes obey the law out of deference to legal authority rather than fear of sanctions, Schauer challenges the assumption that legal coercion is marginal in society. Force is more pervasive than the state’s efforts to control a minority of disobedient citizens. When people believe that what they should do differs from what the law commands, compliance is less common than assumed, and the necessity of coercion becomes apparent.Challenging prevailing modes of jurisprudential inquiry, Schauer makes clear that the question of legal force has sociological, psychological, political, and economic dimensions that transcend purely conceptual concerns. Grappling with the legal system’s dependence on force helps us understand what law is, how it operates, and how it helps organize society.
Del 112 - Skara stiftshistoriska sällskaps skriftserie
Äldre Västgötalagen : och dess bilagor : i Cod. Holm. B 59
Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
436 kr
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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 textvittnena. Utgivningen följer modern textedition och för första gången ges nu hela handskrift Cod. Holm. B 59 ut i färgfaksimil, i trogen fornsvensk version och i översättning till modern svenska. Därtill kommer en vetenskaplig inledning där professor Per-Axel Wiktorsson redogör för själva handskriften, dess uppbyggnad och historia samt behandlar de olika skrivarna i handskriften. Till denna inledning fogas även uppsatser kring lagen och dess innehåll. Allt i handskriften har tidigare inte kunnat läsas men genom modern teknik har en stor del av dessa texter nu kunnat tolkas. För första gången utges även den så kallade Latinbalken i översättning. Detta är en andra reviderad och utvidgad utgåva av den år 2011 utgivna första upplagan.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
311 kr
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An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reich’s most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapegoat and obscured the true nature of Nazi terror.On September 1, 1967, one of the Third Reich’s most infamous figures hanged herself in her cell after nearly twenty-four years in prison. Known as the “Bitch of Buchenwald,” Ilse Koch was singularly notorious, having been accused of owning lampshades fabricated from skins of murdered camp inmates and engaging in “bestial” sexual behavior. These allegations fueled a public fascination that turned Koch into a household name and the foremost symbol of Nazi savagery. Her subsequent prosecution resulted in a scandal that prompted US Senate hearings and even the intervention of President Truman.Yet the most sensational atrocities attributed to Koch were apocryphal or unproven. In this authoritative reappraisal, Tomaz Jardim shows that, while Koch was guilty of heinous crimes, she also became a scapegoat for postwar Germans eager to distance themselves from the Nazi past. The popular condemnation of Koch—and the particularly perverse crimes attributed to her by prosecutors, the media, and the public at large—diverted attention from the far more consequential but less sensational complicity of millions of ordinary Germans in the Third Reich’s crimes.Ilse Koch on Trial reveals how gendered perceptions of violence and culpability drove Koch’s zealous prosecution at a time when male Nazi perpetrators responsible for greater crimes often escaped punishment or received lighter sentences. Both in the international press and during her three criminal trials, Koch was condemned for her violation of accepted gender norms and “good womanly behavior.” Koch’s “sexual barbarism,” though treated as an emblem of the Third Reich’s depravity, ultimately obscured the bureaucratized terror of the Nazi state and hampered understanding of the Holocaust.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
244 kr
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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 , mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used,and disastrously misused,as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt's will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge's misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence,which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison.A colourful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn't always enough to prove a person innocent.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
546 kr
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Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation, The Company-State rethinks this narrative and the nature of the early East India Company itself. In this book, Philip J. Stern reveals the history of a corporation concerned not simply with the bottom line but also with the science of colonial governance. Stern demonstrates how Company leadership wrestled with typical early modern problems of political authority, such as the mutual obligations of subjects and rulers; the relationships among law, economy, and sound civil and colonial society; the constitution of civic institutions ranging from tax collection and religious practice to diplomacy and warmaking; and the nature of jurisdiction and sovereignty over people, territory, and the sea. Their ideas emerged from abstract ideological, historical, and philosophical principles and from the real-world entanglements of East India Company employees and governors with a host of allies, rivals, and polyglot populations in their overseas plantations. As the Company shaped this colonial polity, it also confronted shifting definitions of state and sovereignty across Eurasia that ultimately laid the groundwork for the Company's incorporation into the British empire and state through the eighteenth century.Challenging traditional distinctions between the commercial and imperial eras in British India, as well as a colonial Atlantic world and a "trading world" of Asia, The Company-State offers a unique perspective on the fragmented nature of state, sovereignty, and empire in the early modern world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
296 kr
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A brand new book by eminent legal biographer and historian John Hostettler. Hard on the heels of his acclaimed work with Richard Braby on Sir William Garrow, comes a further text on one of crime and punishments under-recorded and maybe unsung heroes. In eighteenth century continental Europe penal law was barbaric. Gallows were a regular feature of the landscape, branding and mutilation common and there existed the ghastly spectacle of men being broken on the wheel. To make matters worse, people were often tortured or put to death for minor crimes (sometimes both) and often without any trial at all. Like a bombshell, a book entitled On Crimes and Punishments, exploded onto the scene in 1764 with shattering effect. Its author was a young nobleman named Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794). A central message of that - now classic - work were that such punishments were part of 'a war of nations against their citizens' and should be abolished. It was a cri de coeur for thorough reform of the law affecting punishments and it swept across the continent of Europe like wildfire, being adopted by one ruler after another.It even crossed the Atlantic to the new United States of America, in the hands of Thomas Jefferson. In a wonderful sentence which concludes Beccaria's book, he sums up matters as follows: 'In order that every punishment may not be an act of violence, committed by one man or by many against a single individual, it ought to be above all things public, speedy, necessary, the least possible in the given circumstances, proportioned to its crime [and] dictated by the laws'. A welcome addition to the Waterside Press list of biographical and historical works, this new book on Cesare Beccaria - targeted to highlight matters of both universal and current relevance - will be of considerable interest to anyone wishing to trace the development of the rights of individuals charged with or convicted of crimes, and of the importance of fairness, proportionality, decency and similar matters which may be at-risk in the wrong hands. Civilising penal law remains a topical issue but it began with the subject of this work.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
365 kr
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Jeutner argues that the reasonable person is, at heart, an empathetic perspective-taking device, by tracing the standard of the reasonable person across time, legal fields and countries. Beginning with a review of imaginary legal figures in the legal systems of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the book explains why the common law's reasonable person emerged amidst the British industrialisation under the influence of Scottish Enlightenment thinking. Following the figure into colonial courts, onto battlefields and into self-driving cars, the book contends that the reasonable person invites judges, jury-members, and lawyers to take another person's perspective when assessing their own or another person's conduct. The perspective of another is taken by means of empathy, by feeling what others might feel in a particular situation. Thus construed, the figure of the reasonable person can help us make more accurate judgments in a diverse world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
143 kr
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'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good WarThe laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During two hundred years of colonial rule, Europeans exported their laws everywhere they could. But they weren't filling a void: in many places, they displaced traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first arrived in India. Where, then, did it all begin? And what has law been and done over the course of human history? In The Rule of Laws, pioneering anthropologist Fernanda Pirie traces the development of the world's great legal systems - Chinese, Indian, Roman, and Islamic - and the innumerable smaller traditions they inspired.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
329 kr
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New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States.The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism--the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions. The results of these issues produced institutions that have lasted for over two centuries.In this new book, eminent historian Gordon S. Wood distills a lifetime of work on constitutional innovations during the Revolutionary era. In concise form, he illuminates critical events in the nation's founding, ranging from the imperial debate that led to the Declaration of Independence to the revolutionary state constitution making in 1776 and the creation of the Federal Constitution in 1787. Among other topics, he discusses slavery and constitutionalism, the emergence of the judiciary as one of the major tripartite institutions of government, the demarcation between public and private, and the formation of states' rights.Here is an immensely readable synthesis of the key era in the making of the history of the United States, presenting timely insights on the Constitution and the nation's foundational legal and political documents.
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We, the King
Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
365 kr
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We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the New World, revealing how ordinary subjects had much more say in government and law-making than previously acknowledged. During the viceregal period spanning the post-1492 conquest until 1598, the King signed more than 110,000 pages of decrees concerning state policies, minutiae, and everything in between. Through careful analysis of these decrees, Adrian Masters illustrates how law-making was aided and abetted by subjects from various backgrounds, including powerful court women, indigenous commoners, Afro-descendant raftsmen, secret saboteurs, pirates, sovereign Chiriguano Indians, and secretaries' wives. Subjects' innumerable petitions and labor prompted - and even phrased - a complex body of legislation and legal categories demonstrating the degree to which this empire was created from the "bottom up". Innovative and unique, We, the King reimagines our understandings of kingship, imperial rule, colonialism, and the origins of racial categories.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
235 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
122 kr
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A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVERA moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writerOn 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of those who helped to carry out these attacks. Lasting nine months, from September 2021 to June 2022, it consisted of 14 defendants, 2,400 plaintiffs, 350 lawyers and a file 53 metres high.In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two.Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre, fusing passion, curiosity and a profoundly humane intellect, making him one of the most distinctive and important literary voices today.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
348 kr
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
273 kr
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På eftermiddagen den 2 mars 1917 klev den 30-åriga advokaten Eva Andén upp i talarstolen i riksdagens andra kammare. Hon var inbjuden att kommentera ett nytt lagförslag, vilket var uppseendeväckande på två sätt: dels var det första gången en kvinna talade i riksdagen, dels talade Andén utifrån juridisk yrkeserfarenhet.
Idag är kvinnorna i klar majoritet på juristutbildningarna, men på Eva Andéns tid såg det annorlunda ut. Visserligen fick kvinnor lov att studera juridik vid universiteten från 1870-talet och framåt, men hindren på vägen till en karriär var många och handlade om både lagstiftning och attityd. Som Sveriges första kvinnliga advokat fick Eva Andén ta emot dödshot när hon förespråkade reformer av äktenskapslagstiftningen.
I Besvärliga fruntimmer! får vi följa ett stort antal personöden från den tid då kvinnor fick kämpa sig fram på den juridiska banan. Elsa Trolle Önnerfors ger här den första övergripande skildringen av hur kvinnliga jurister slog sig in på arbetsmarknaden under en tidsperiod som sammanfaller med såväl Sveriges demokratisering som kvinnans frigörelse.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
144 kr
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In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer’s eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present. A bold and brilliant debut from a prize-winning new writer.‘The Trial’ spans a vast distance in time, opening in the dread silence of the Egyptian Hall of the Dead and ending with the melodramas and hubbub of the 21st-century trial circus. Reconciliation and vengeance, secrecy and spectacle, superstition and reason all intertwine continually. The book crosses from the marbled courtrooms of Athens through the ordeal pits of Anglo-Saxon England, past the torture chambers of the Inquisition to the judicial theatres of 17th-century Salem, and from 1930s Moscow and post-war Nuremberg to the virtual courtrooms of modern Hollywood.Kadri shows throughout how the trial has always been concerned with doing more than guaranteeing fairness and holding human beings to account for their deliberate crimes. He recounts how insentient and irrational defendants from caterpillars to corpses were once summonsed to court, before being exiled for their failure to attend or sentenced to die again – and argues that the same urge to punish lives on in today's trials of children and the mentally ill. But although Justice’s sword has always been double-edged – as ready to destroy a community’s enemies as to defend its dreams of due process – the judicial contest also operates to enshrine some of the western world’s most cherished values. The show trials of Stalin's Soviet Union were shams, but Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are a reminder that a lack of a trial is equally unjust, and at a time when our constitutional landscape seems to be melting away, an appreciation of the criminal courtroom’s history is more necessary than ever. As the Labour government launches an almost annual attempt to truncate trial by jury, and as authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are indefinitely detaining people in the name of an endless war on terror, ‘The Trial’ could hardly be more timely.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
231 kr
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A Waterstones Best History Book 2024'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 woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.' So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words – intended ironically in a debate about a rise in attacks on women – summed up the prevailing attitude of the day, in which violence against women was waved away as a part and parcel of modern living – a chilling seam of misogyny that had polluted both parliament and the law. But were things about to change?In this vivid and essential work of historical non-fiction, Kate Morgan explores the legal campaigns, test cases and individual injustices of the Victorian and Edwardian eras which fundamentally re-shaped the status of women under British law. These are seen through the untold stories of women whose cases became cornerstones of our modern legal system and shine a light on the historical inequalities of the law.We hear of the uniquely abusive marriage which culminated in the dramatic story of the ‘Clitheroe wife abduction’; of the domestic tragedies which changed the law on domestic violence; the controversies surrounding the Contagious Diseases Act and the women who campaigned to abolish it; and the real courtroom stories behind notorious murder cases such as the ‘Camden Town Murder’.Exploring the 19th- and early 20th Century legal history that influenced the modern-day stances on issues such as domestic abuse, sexual violence and divorce, The Walnut Treelifts the lid on the shocking history of women under British law – and what it means for women today.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
128 kr
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A Waterstones Best History Book 2024'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 woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.' So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words – intended ironically in a debate about a rise in attacks on women – summed up the prevailing attitude of the day, in which violence against women was waved away as a part and parcel of modern living – a chilling seam of misogyny that had polluted both parliament and the law. But were things about to change?In this vivid and essential work of historical non-fiction, Kate Morgan explores the legal campaigns, test cases and individual injustices of the Victorian and Edwardian eras which fundamentally re-shaped the status of women under British law. These are seen through the untold stories of women whose cases became cornerstones of our modern legal system and shine a light on the historical inequalities of the law.We hear of the uniquely abusive marriage which culminated in the dramatic story of the ‘Clitheroe wife abduction’; of the domestic tragedies which changed the law on domestic violence; the controversies surrounding the Contagious Diseases Act and the women who campaigned to abolish it; and the real courtroom stories behind notorious murder cases such as the ‘Camden Town Murder’.Exploring the 19th- and early 20th Century legal history that influenced the modern-day stances on issues such as domestic abuse, sexual violence and divorce, The Walnut Treelifts the lid on the shocking history of women under British law – and what it means for women today.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
132 kr
Skickas
A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023A 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 a Hungarian farming village was finally exposed. For more than 15 years, Nagyrev had harboured a group of serial killers, one of the largest murder rings ever recorded. They came to be known as The Angel Makers.Led by a sharp-minded midwife known as Auntie Suzy, the local wives brazenly rid themselves of unwanted relatives, spooning doses of arsenic into soup and wine, stirring it into coffee and brandy. Murder was just another chore.Over 160 mysterious deaths later, the unlikely gang of murderesses came to justice in a sensational trial reported the world over. With absorbing detail, Patti McCracken pieces together the lives of Auntie Suzy, her wide network of killers, the unsuspecting victims and the villagers who witnessed it all.The Angel Makers is the utterly gripping account of an almost unbelievable – yet entirely true – moment in crime history.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
255 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
'An absorbing and heart-breaking study, opening a window into the past and urgently contemporary at the same time' TESSA HADLEY We think that our children belong to us, but families are fragile things. Every day, for over a century, children have been moved between homes because of law cases that decide their fates. Yet child custody is curiously absent from history books and from how we generally understand our world. Lara Feigel’s groundbreaking book shows the fraught, complex territory of child custody to have been one of the vital battlegrounds of modern history and culture.Custody is the story of seven women – Caroline Norton, George Sand, Elizabeth Packard, Frieda Lawrence, Edna O’Brien, Alice Walker, Britney Spears – who have fought for their children and been found wanting. It is also the story of the children who have lost the care they most need because divorce is at heart a macabre continuation of matrimony in a new setting, with the battles of the marriage stoked into new levels of acrimony by the courts.It’s a book of dramatic storytelling, and of blistering polemic and large-scale historical re-evaluation. Each chapter immerses the reader in the life and times – and struggles – of these fascinating, charismatic, complex women and their children. All of these women were mothers, but all of them wanted and needed to be other things too – writers, lovers, or activists – and they and their children were punished for these attempts.Feigel has been deep in the archives, looking into thousands of other cases in each place and time, and she’s been sitting in on the family courts in the present. So alongside these central figures, the book presents a teeming picture of fractured family life in Britain, Europe and North America across two hundred years, offering a major new interpretation of how our modern culture has evolved. And Custody is an alternative history of feminism, centring on the fraught relationship between emancipation and care.This book is of urgent interest to anyone concerned with women’s roles in the world and how institutions fail them. Ultimately it’s a book that sees custody as the nexus where motherhood, ideology and power meet. Custody cases can seem in these chapters to be quintessentially tragic, but the stories of these passionate, conflicted women also make us want to figure out how to do things better.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
115 kr
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