Prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, there was no unitary, national legal system. Before...
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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...
There is no systematic collection of Greek laws, thus the knowledge the earliest notions of the subject...
By the outbreak of the Civil War, the seeds for the later mass incarceration of black people...
Examining the main flaws in the court system in the days of Homer. By Dr. Alexandr LoginovProfessor...
The ideal was formulated in the Archaic period and became a feature of Greek identity. Abstract This...
Entering the 21st century, roughly 10 percent of the nation’s pre-college-aged children attended parochial schools. By Derek...
Roman law provisions on desertion had features that were totally different from the common Roman criminal law....
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in...
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent...
Before John Marshall, the Supreme Court had been a constitutional afterthought. No one in the founding generation...
From gruesome, public executions to Georgian Britain’s adoration of the ‘heroic’ highwayman, the author investigates attitudes to...
Criminal justice reform advocates are sounding the alarm about the tech’s deception, and ramifications. We’ve all heard...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...
The Supreme Court had barely gotten used to its new chamber when the War of 1812 commenced...
Edmund Randolph was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United...
Lawyers spoke their own language, even in the Middle Ages. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried...
Athenians preferred to memorialize punishments for eternity. By Dr. Danielle S. AllenJames Conant Bryan University Professor of...
Medieval commerce had little space for a specialized law, and merchants had little need for it. Abstract...
Strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. Abstract This...
Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Prison officers...
Two powerful and often conflicting legal systems had emerged. Early Development When the Germanic tribes entered the...
Recovering a more capacious social topology from the Thomist theology that modern Western philosophy supplanted. Titled Declarations of Dependence:...
Socrates said that law was a discovery of the reality in relations – that is, of the...
Castillo de Zafra / Photo by Borjaanimal, Wikimedia Commons Medieval men and women were caught up in...
Examining the emergence of ancient Egyptian law out of religion and specifically arising from the concept of maat. By...