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Death Sentences In The Great Qing, 1744-1840: Critical Note On Civilization In Comparison With England And Wales, Moulin Xiong, Ren Liu
Death Sentences In The Great Qing, 1744-1840: Critical Note On Civilization In Comparison With England And Wales, Moulin Xiong, Ren Liu
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
Over the last centuries, the view on the death penalty in Qing China has been distorted, presenting a picture of abusive brutality and excessive cruelty, and thus was used as the critical pretext to establish immune extraterritorial jurisdictions. Nevertheless, the existing comments are more literary embellishments without empirical evidence, and few comparative and historical perspectives have been utilized to clarify the truth. In this study, we mined annual death sentence numerical data for the period 1744 to 1840 from official archives and literatures, deciphering the capital crimes in detail and ascertaining the longitudinal trend with population statistics. To reassess the …
United States V. Burns: Canada's Extraterritorial Extension Of Canadian Law And Creation Of A Canadian "Safe Haven" In Capital Extradition Cases, Andrea Cortland
United States V. Burns: Canada's Extraterritorial Extension Of Canadian Law And Creation Of A Canadian "Safe Haven" In Capital Extradition Cases, Andrea Cortland
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
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Saving Constitutional Rights From Judicial Scrutiny: The Savings Clause In The Law Of The Commonwealth Caribbean, Margaret A. Burham
Saving Constitutional Rights From Judicial Scrutiny: The Savings Clause In The Law Of The Commonwealth Caribbean, Margaret A. Burham
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
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The European Tendency Toward Non-Extradition To The United States In Capital Cases: Trends, Assurances, And Breaches Of Duty, Robert Gregg
The European Tendency Toward Non-Extradition To The United States In Capital Cases: Trends, Assurances, And Breaches Of Duty, Robert Gregg
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
No abstract provided.