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A Wind From Below: The Zapatista Movement And Its Assertion Of Pluri-Ethnic Mexican Citizenship, Noah Jacob Huyette
A Wind From Below: The Zapatista Movement And Its Assertion Of Pluri-Ethnic Mexican Citizenship, Noah Jacob Huyette
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
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Civil And Common Law: A Historical Analysis Of Colonial And Postcolonial Canada, Patrick S. Stroud
Civil And Common Law: A Historical Analysis Of Colonial And Postcolonial Canada, Patrick S. Stroud
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
Legal historians divide European law into two principal families: common law (British law) and civil law (continental European law). Common law judges favor cases; courts “discover” law on a case-by-case basis and those cases make precedents for future ruling. Civil law courts favor codes; courts compare cases to existing laws and those laws control judges’ rulings. The two rarely interact, save one prominent example: Canada. British common law supposedly superseded French legal traditions in colonial Canada. But is history so binary? Did British common law truly “conquer” French civil law? Through analysis of Canadian legal history, this article demonstrates how …
Crafting Industrial Manhood In The Manual Training Movement, 1876-1920, James Jonathan Rick
Crafting Industrial Manhood In The Manual Training Movement, 1876-1920, James Jonathan Rick
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
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