The number of justices has changed over time, from six to as many as 10, but the...
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Initially, the Court met in the Merchants Exchange Building in New York City. Building History “The Republic...
The Supreme Court is deeply tied to its traditions. Introduction Established by the United States Constitution, the...
He briefly became the Mafia’s capo di tutti capi (“boss of all bosses”) and formed the Five...
The first published account of what became the Mafia in the United States dates to the spring...
Many Supreme Court nomination battles depended on whether the president’s party also had control of the U.S....
The course of study lasted for five years and consisted in the revision and analysis of classical...
Looking at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players and symbols interacting with society. Introduction Legal...
Bologna remained a preeminent center for legal study and training for many centuries. Introduction The origins of...
Eye-witness testimonies are an essential component of many trials. They are a fundamental piece of evidence that...
During the colonial era, laws related to the death penalty were primarily influenced by the European system....
Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act to prevent exactly this type of action. It doesn’t take a...
Two alternative conceptions of government – a republic and an oligarchy. By Friedrich Schiller18th-Century Philosopher and Historian...
Defunding America’s wars at home and abroad. Think of it as a war system that’s been coming...
The ruling allows vital public education funding to be siphoned away to private religious schools. By Andrew...
We need to end systemic racism and the militarism that makes it even deadlier—from Kabul to Atlanta...
Rulers used law codes either to justify their rule or to demonstrate examples of justice and due...
Independent recordings of police officers are critical for ensuring police accountability. By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced in the medieval world....
A new theology that came to dominate British religion after the Reformation altering the relationship between the...
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
Trials were very much a public affair, held out-of-doors or in basilicas; private homes might themselves have...
What was the role of rhetoric in all of their different courts and procedures? By O.E. Tellegen...
Prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, there was no unitary, national legal system. Before...
Counting adults who are unable to vote is intellectually dishonest, but that’s par for the course for...
The trials for ambitus were numerous in the time of the republic. Introduction In ancient Roman law,...
Looking at crime in Elizabethan England and the brutal punishments offenders received. Thieves and Pickpockets The crowded...
This refers to any one of several ancient Roman laws (leges maiestatis) dealing with crimes against the...
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There is no systematic collection of Greek laws, thus the knowledge the earliest notions of the subject...