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  • The Second Formation of Islamic Law

    The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

    by Guy Burak ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    The Second Formation of Islamic Law is the first book to deal with the rise of an official school of law in the post-Mongol period. The author explores how the Ottoman dynasty shaped the structure and doctrine of a particular branch within the Hanafi school of law. In addition, the book examines the opposition of various jurists, mostly from the empire's Arab provinces, to this development. By ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession

    Canonists, Civilians, and Courts

    by James A. Brundage ...
    In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities began to impose a body of ethical obligations on those who practiced law. James Brundage's The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Labour Before the Law

    The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

    by Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

    Statesman of the Old Republic

    by R. Kent Newmyer ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story’s greatest objective was to fashion a national ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law

    by Kevin Jon Heller ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs). The judgments the NMTs produced have played a critical role in the development of international criminal law, particularly in terms of how courts currently understand war crimes, ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    A Nation of Rights

    by Laura F. Edwards ...
    Series series New Histories of American Law
    Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the American Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Sexual Violation in Islamic Law

    Substance, Evidence, and Procedure

    by Hina Azam ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    This book provides a detailed analysis of Islamic juristic writings on the topic of rape and argues that classical Islamic jurisprudence contained nuanced, substantially divergent doctrines of sexual violation as a punishable crime. The work centers on legal discourses of the first six centuries of Islam, the period during which these discourses reached their classical forms, and chronicles the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Doubt in Islamic Law

    A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law

    by Intisar A. Rabb ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Islamic Law in Action

    Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt

    by Kristen Stilt ...
    A dynamic account of the practice of Islamic law, this book focuses on the actions of a particular legal official, the muhtasib, whose vast jurisdiction included all public behavior. In the cities of Cairo and neighboring Fustat during the Mamluk period (1250-1517), the men who held the position of muhtasib acted as regulators of markets and public spaces generally. They traversed their ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Islam and the Rule of Justice

    Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture

    by Lawrence Rosen ...
    In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice do not reflect the full reality of the Islamic law in its everyday practice. Whether in the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Muslim Law

    An Historical Introduction to the Law of Inheritance

    by Alexander David Russell ...
    This volume, originally published in 1925, outlines the historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law. It discusses the ranking of heirs and guardians, reforms introduced by Muhammad, subsequent development of the law, and rise of the orthodox schools. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence

    Text and Tradition

    by Ralph A. Rossum ...
    Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is widely regarded as the most controversial member of the Court.This book is the first comprehensive, reasoned, and sympathetic analysis of how Scalia has decided cases during his entire twenty-year Supreme Court tenure. Ralph ... Read more

    $23.79 USD