This is a broad history of the western European legal tradition. From the modern age the author looks back to a time when Europe had a common law that transcended national and legal boundaries. This common law, which Bellomo calls the ""ius commune"", had developed in the 12th century from the fusion of Roman, canon and feudal law. Existing within ......
A comparative study of tax systems of Germany and Japan, which is an expanded version of the author's previous work, Veritable Bookkeeping Records. This volume, including new/revised material, argues that Japan should look to the EC and the US for guidance on fairer accounting principles.
This book introduces the reader to the social and behavioural foundations for a `sense of justice' - the form of equilibrium which individuals and legal systems seek to achieve and maintain in a changing and complex world. The contributors draw upon new discoveries and insights from the biologically-based behavioural sciences that are critical to a more informed understanding of legal phenomena, particularly those dealing with complex social and political relationships.
Studies in Medieval Legal History Dedicated to Stephen Kuttner
Essays concerned with various aspects of medieval law. Dedicated to Stephan Kuttner, they are aimed at anyone interested in medieval canon law, its effects on medieval society, the study and use of Roman law in the Middle Ages, and the interaction of these two laws.
This, the twenty-seventh volume in the annual series of publications by the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, features a number of distinguised contributors addressing the topic of criminal justice. Part I considers "The Moral and Metaphysical Sources of the Criminal Law," with contributions by Michael S. Moore, Lawrence Rosen, ......
The survival of Germanic law codes affords us invaluable insight into pre-feudal society. The inviolability of custom and the spontaneity of punishment so characteristic of primitive law served to perpetuate a rigid class structure in which the principal crimes were settled by a monetary recompense based on the victim 's social status. The codes ......
An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America
Designed for the general reader, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Western Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The second edition describes changes in civil law procedures since the book was first published in 1969, and includes a new ......
