FORTY years ago the most conspicuous failure in the American governmental system was the administration of our large cities. To-day, by common consent, it is the administration of the law. The ...

In the 17th century, English radicals such as the Leveller John Lilburne promoted the idea of the ‘Norman Yoke’. This theory claimed that before the Norman Conquest imposed the feudal system, England ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Kunal Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism shows how nineteenth-century thinkers ...

The legal system that operates in the United Arab Emirates (uae)—like that in many countries across the Gulf—is a blend of French civil and Islamic Sharia law. But this summer Dubai announced that it ...

“For a man's house is his castle, and each man's home is his safest refuge.” With that phrasing, English common law reinvented the Castle Doctrine, the concept that one may be safe and protect one’s ...