Author: Nick Groom
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The bloody register : [a select and judicious collection of most remarkable trials]. 2
Author: Nick Groom
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities
Author: Simon Stern
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190695625
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 921
Book Description
How might law matter to the humanities? How might the humanities matter to law? In its approach to both of these questions, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities shows how rich a resource the law is for humanistic study, as well as how and why the humanities are vital for understanding law. Tackling questions of method, key themes and concepts, and a variety of genres and areas of the law, this collection of essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines illuminates new questions and articulates an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190695625
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 921
Book Description
How might law matter to the humanities? How might the humanities matter to law? In its approach to both of these questions, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities shows how rich a resource the law is for humanistic study, as well as how and why the humanities are vital for understanding law. Tackling questions of method, key themes and concepts, and a variety of genres and areas of the law, this collection of essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines illuminates new questions and articulates an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities.
The Origins of Reasonable Doubt
Author: James Q. Whitman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116004
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one. The rule as we understand it today is intended to protect the accused. But Whitman traces its history back through centuries of Christian theology and common-law history to reveal that the original concern was to protect the souls of jurors. In Christian tradition, a person who experienced doubt yet convicted an innocent defendant was guilty of a mortal sin. Jurors fearful for their own souls were reassured that they were safe, as long as their doubts were not “reasonable.” Today, the old rule of reasonable doubt survives, but it has been turned to different purposes. The result is confusion for jurors, and a serious moral challenge for our system of justice.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116004
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one. The rule as we understand it today is intended to protect the accused. But Whitman traces its history back through centuries of Christian theology and common-law history to reveal that the original concern was to protect the souls of jurors. In Christian tradition, a person who experienced doubt yet convicted an innocent defendant was guilty of a mortal sin. Jurors fearful for their own souls were reassured that they were safe, as long as their doubts were not “reasonable.” Today, the old rule of reasonable doubt survives, but it has been turned to different purposes. The result is confusion for jurors, and a serious moral challenge for our system of justice.
Catalogue of the library of W.M. Thackeray
Author: Christie's (Londen)
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Bookseller's catalogues
Author: Richard Priestley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Languages : en
Pages : 650
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The bloody register : [a select and judicious collection of most remarkable trials]. 1
Author: Nick Groom
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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