Law : Civil Law

The second volume in a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal history And the Walls Came Tumbling Down showcases eight of the most exciting closing arguments in civil law -- from the Amistad case, in which John Quincy Adams brought the injustice of slavery to the center stage of American politics, to the Susan B. Anthony decision, which paved the way to success for women's suffrage, to the Larry Flynt trial, in which the porn king became an unlikely champion for freedom of speech. By providing historical and biographical details, as well as the closing arguments themselves, Lief and Caldwell give readers the background necessary to fully understand these important cases, bringing them vividly to life. more...

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This book is an important contribution to the current lively debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world. This debate, which was initiated by the work of John Crook in the 1960’s, has had a profound impact upon the study of law and history and has created sharply divided opinions on the extent to which law may be said to be a product of the society that created it. This work is a modest attempt to provide a balanced assessment of the various points of view. The chapters within this book have been specifically arranged to represent the debate. It contains an introductory chapter by Alan Watson, whose views on the relationship between law and society have caused some controversy. In the remaining chapters a distinguished international group of scholars address this debate by focusing on studies of law and empire, codes and codification, death and economics, commerce and procedure. This book does not purport to provide a complete survey of Roman private law in light of Roman society. Its primary aim is to address specific areas of the law with a view to contributing to the larger debate. more...

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liberties or, as it is becoming more commonly known, domestic human rights. Since the first edition of this book, there has been a rapid acceleration of development of this field of law, which has become almost all-pervasive. There are many new statutes and cases which have been incorporated into the questions in this edition, most notably the Human Rights Act 1998, which has finally incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms into domestic law. This is such a significant change that it will affect every civil liberties and human rights course and so the new law and its likely scope forms the focus of many of the questions in this edition. Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of the 1998 Act, its implications and the relevant existing case authority on the ECHR as it relates to each and every area of their course, and so these topics have been addressed in depth. The speed of change in this field and the sheer volume of new human rights-related statutes requires some selectivity in the topics chosen for discussion here, but the core areas of any human rights/civil liberties course are examined. New questions have also been included on topics of current and likely future interest, such as privacy, freedom of information, immigration and asylum provisions and discrimination law. more...

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How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates and judges. more...

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This report evaluates criticism of the no-fault car insurance system in the United States by examining trends in fatal and non-fatal car accident rates and rates of driver negligence between 1967 and 1989. The report aims to show that there is no correlation between the two sets of statistics. more...

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