More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
Law
In the lawless post-Civil War Ozarks, the vigilante Bald Knobbers took government’s place. When I was seven...
Fake news and smoking guns made the Kansas town a symbol of frontier lawlessness. Everywhere American popular...
Where does economic power come from? Does it exist independently of the law? It seems obvious, even...
From gruesome, public executions to Georgian Britain’s adoration of the ‘heroic’ highwayman, the author investigates attitudes to...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...
The laws aided and legitimized the political power of the aristocracy and allowed them to consolidate their...
The Supreme Court had barely gotten used to its new chamber when the War of 1812 commenced...
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming...
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...
Early modern women were subjected to multiple realms of authority in both the private and public spheres....
The law’s “brooding presence” was very real to political actors in early modern France. Old Regime France,...
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...
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...