The Legacies Of Law

Author : Jens Meierhenrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139475177
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacies of Law written by Jens Meierhenrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650–2000, this book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. The Legacies of Law sheds light on the neglected relationship between path dependence and the law. Meierhenrich argues that legal norms and institutions, even illiberal ones, have an important - and hitherto undertheorized - structuring effect on democratic outcomes. Under certain conditions, law appears to reduce uncertainty in democratization by invoking common cultural backgrounds and experiences. In instances where interacting adversaries share qua law reasonably convergent mental models, transitions from authoritarian rule are shown to be less intractable. Meierhenrich's historical analysis of the evolution of law - and its effects - in South Africa during the period 1650–2000, compared with a short study of Chile from 1830–1990, shows how, and when, legal norms and institutions serve as historical causes to both liberal and illiberal rule.

Author : Salmon A Shomade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000521087
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Legacies and the Rule of Law in Africa written by Salmon A Shomade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the continued impact of British colonial legacy on the rule of law in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The legal system is intended to protect regular citizens, but within the majority of Africa the rule of law remains infused with Eurocentric cultural and linguistic tropes, which can leave its supposed beneficiaries feeling alienated from the structures intended to protect them. This book traces the impact, effect, opportunities, and challenges that the colonial legacy poses for the rule of law across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The book examines the similarities and differences of the colonial legacy on the current legal landscape of each nation and the intersection with the rule of law. This important comparative study will be of interest to scholars of Political Science, International Studies, Law, African Politics, and British Colonial History.

Author : Craig Forrest
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784717258
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Legacies and the Law written by Craig Forrest and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent centenary of WWI has prompted a shift in the way attention is focused on legacy shipwrecks. This timely book considers the development of the laws that apply to these wrecks and the issues that surround them, and deftly analyses the adequacy of the existing legal framework to fulfil its promise of protecting legacy wrecks for future generations as historical and archaeological resources, memorials and, most importantly, as maritime war graves. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial}

Author : Shaunnagh Dorsett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317915747
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Histories of the British Empire written by Shaunnagh Dorsett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek to investigate law’s central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. One of the first collections to provide a sustained engagement with the legal histories of the British Empire, in particular beyond the settler colonies, this work aims to encourage further scholarship and new approaches to the writing of the histories of that Empire. Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies will be of value not only to legal scholars and graduate students, but of interest to all of those who want to know more about the laws in and of the British Empire.

Author : Christian Joerges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847311679
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darker Legacies of Law in Europe written by Christian Joerges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal scholarship of the National Socialist and Fascist period of the 20th century and its subsequent reverberation throughout European law and legal tradition has recently become the focus of intense scholarly discussion. This volume presents theoretical,historical and legal inquiries into the legacy of National Socialism and Fascism written by a group of the leading scholars in this field. Their essays are wide-ranging, covering the reception of National Socialist and Fascist ideologies into legal scholarship; contemporary perceptions of Nazi Law in the Anglo-American world; parallels and differences among authoritarian regimes in the Third Reich, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Vichy-France; how formerly authoritarian countries have dealt with their legal antecedents; continuities and discontinuities in legal thought in private law, public law, labour law, international and European law; and the legal profession's endogenous obedience and the pains of Vergangenheitsbewältigung. The majority of the contributions were first presented at a conference at the EUI in the autumn of 2000, the others in subsequent series of seminars.

Author : Christian J. Tams
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 900424493X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice written by Christian J. Tams and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice' assesses the continuing relevance of the first 'world court' and shows how, for better or worse, it has shaped our thinking about binding legal dispute resolution.

Author : Bernard Grofman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919218
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act written by Bernard Grofman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors: Paul Burstein, University of WashingtonDavid B. Filvaroff, State University of New York, BuffaloLouis Ricardo Fraga, Stanford UniversityHugh Davis Graham, Vanderbilt UniversityJack Greenberg, Columbia UniversityGloria J. Hampton, Ohio State UniversityJoseph B. Kadane, Carnegie Mellon UniversityRandall Kennedy, Harvard Law SchoolJ. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of TechnologyRichard Lempert, University of MichiganPaula D. McCain, University of VirginiaCaroline Mitchell, Esq., Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaGary Orfield, Harvard UniversityJorge Ruiz-de-Velasco, Stanford UniversityBarbara Phillips Sullivan, Ford FoundationKatherine Tate, University of California, IrvineStephen L. Wasby, State University of New York, AlbanyRobin M. Williams Jr., Cornell UniversityRaymond E. Wolfinger, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Susan Marks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521187626
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Law on the Left written by Susan Marks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against expectations that the turn away from state socialism would likewise initiate a turn away from Marxist thought, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Marxism and its reassessment by a new generation of theorists. This book pursues that interest with specific reference to international law. It presents a sustained and fascinating exploration of the pertinence of Marxist ideas, concepts and analytical practices for international legal enquiry from a range of angles. Essays consider the relationship between Marxism and critical approaches to international law, the legacy of Soviet international legal theory, the bearing of Marxism for the analysis of international trade law and human rights, and the significance for international legal enquiry of such Marxist concepts as the commodity, praxis and exploitation.

Author : Roper Stote Donnison Roper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise Upon the Law of Legacies written by Roper Stote Donnison Roper and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roper Stote Donnison Roper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Legacies written by Roper Stote Donnison Roper and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: