Systems of Law

How do autocratic governments exploit communication technology in their efforts to maintain power? Can prodemocracy activists successfully use that...

From Brazil to Bangladesh, Liberia to Switzerland, Malta to the Marshall Islands, more and more women are rising to the top level of political lead...

From Brazil to Bangladesh, Liberia to Switzerland, Malta to the Marshall Islands, more and more women are rising to the top level of political lead...

In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact wi...

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leaders...

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is ...

Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power? Will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Ira...

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evo...

One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs, and applies a mass of often comp...

This is a clear, readable introduction to the basic structures and areas of church rules from one of the nation's most respected canonists. It is n...

This first English translation of Pierre Manents profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de lhomme is a reflection on...

In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and r...

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the administration of justice during Islams founding period, 6321250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship ...

What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields ...

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poets words and the lawyers world really so far ap...

As torts and as crimes, champerty and maintenance were abolished by statute in England and Wales in 1967. They were considered to be obsolete and t...

Dieses Buch vermittelt ein umfassendes und vertieftes Verständnis für die Ehe als Rechtsverhältnis und die dynamische Entwicklung des Eherechts. Es...

Globally, the methodologies of legal education have not changed in any fundamental way, some methods dating back hundreds of years. Law schools hav...

Alexander III's 1179 Lateran Council, was, for medieval contemporaries, the first of the great papal councils of the central Middle Ages. Gathered ...