Discursive Framings of Human Rights
What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social contexts. Historical as well as contemporary declarations of rights have stressed both the protective and political aspects of human rights. But in concrete situations and conflictual moments, the...
Maconochie's Gentlemen (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
by Norval Morris
In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen". Here Norval Morris,...
Ordonnances Des Rois de France de la Troisieme Race. Volume 17 (Ed.1820) (Sciences Sociales)
by France
Law & Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals)
by Richard Garner
Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens' courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of legal codes and practice has seemed dauntingly complex. Professor Garner aims to situate the Atheni...
This is a history not of an Enlightenment but rather the Enlightenment-the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. Its principal protagonists, rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies. Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the w...
In the winter of 1996, the writer Janet Malcolm received a letter from a stranger - a disbarred lawyer named Sheila McGough, who had recently been released from prison, and who wrote that she been convicted of crimes she had not committed. McGough's was an obscure fraud case, just as McGough herself was obscure: a fifty-four- year- old woman who when Malcolm met her 'looked and sounded like a blandly wholesome heroine of fifties movies', toiling in the lower reaches of the American legal profess...
The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon
by Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton
Edmund Tew's notebook is a remarkable if cryptic record of the troublesome relationships of local people in a rapidly developing area of North-East England. In the coal-exporting towns of Sunderland and South Shields, notorious for the collective violence of their industrial conflicts, there were no formal structures of local government, and so, as the notebook indicates, it was the lone magistrate who provided the opportunity for judicial intervention into and resolution of the many individual...
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws United States of America, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
by John Bouvier
Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities)
by Erin Sheley
No Time for Truth is the first book to investigate the "Haditha Massacre," the controversial killing of twenty four unarmed Iraqi civilians in November 2005 and the subsequent prosecution of eight Marines charged with violating the rules of combat. Unravelled by the authors, this complex tragedy of the Iraq War compellingly illustrates the bitter observation by Aeschylus that "in war, truth is the first casualty." After the explosion of an IED killed one Marine and wounded two others, the coun...
When the British took the Panjab in the 1840s their first act was to establish landholding registers in every village, through a system of village records and district reports. Rule by Records examines the formation of this dual system in a particular locality and reconstructs the nature of agrarian relations for the period immediately before British rule, demonstrating the way in which registration transformed what it was intended to preserve. The result challenges established concepts and proc...
Unimpeded Sailing (Brill's Studies in Maritime History)
by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Steve Murdoch, and Leos Muller