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The Grand Experiment Law And Legal Culture In British Settler Societies, Hamar Foster, Benjamin Berger, A. Buck Sep 2015

The Grand Experiment Law And Legal Culture In British Settler Societies, Hamar Foster, Benjamin Berger, A. Buck

Benjamin L Berger

In the late nineteenth century, the English legal historians Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland coined the phrase "the grand experiment" to describe the spread of English law throughout the British Empire. For Pollock and Maitland, this was an unequivocally positive process that would uplift settler societies. The work of recent legal historians, however, has alerted us to the more complex impact English law had on the peoples, both settler and indigenous, of those colonial societies. This "new colonial legal history" has revealed subtle and more ambiguous understandings of "the grand experiment." The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new …


U.S. Police Officers Kill Primarily Because They Are Attacked, Not To Disrupt Crime, Alev Dudek Mar 2015

U.S. Police Officers Kill Primarily Because They Are Attacked, Not To Disrupt Crime, Alev Dudek

Alev Dudek

In spite of the steady decline in violent crimes, law enforcement in the U.S.A. is becoming significantly more violent. Compared to other developed countries, such as Germany or Great Britain, disproportionately more arrest-related deaths occur in the U.S. Additionally, in the treatment of suspects, a racial disparity is evident; disproportionately more black males get killed by white police officers. Political exploitation of “crime” and militarization of law enforcement are factors that contribute to the status-quo and may explain why most arrest-related killings by the police are not a result of attempting to disrupt crime, but in defense of attacks, perceived …


Portia Goes To Parliament: Women And Their Admission To Membership In The English Legal Profession, Christine Corcos Sep 2014

Portia Goes To Parliament: Women And Their Admission To Membership In The English Legal Profession, Christine Corcos

Christine A. Corcos

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From Agnatic Succession To Absolute Primogeniture: The Shift To Equal Rights Of Succession To Thrones And Titles In The Modern European Constitutional Monarchy, Christine Corcos Sep 2014

From Agnatic Succession To Absolute Primogeniture: The Shift To Equal Rights Of Succession To Thrones And Titles In The Modern European Constitutional Monarchy, Christine Corcos

Christine A. Corcos

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