Was the emperor as sovereign allowed to seize the property of his subjects? Was this treated differently in late medieval Roman law vis-à-vis the theory and practice of zabt in Mughal India? How did political sovereignty relate to the church's powers and to trade? How about maritime sovereignty after Grotius? How was the East India Company as a ‘corporation’ interacting...

Anhand von Archiv- und zeitgenössischen Literaturquellen analysiert Nils Hauser die nicht eindeutige Aufgabenstellung der Kriminalpolizei zwischen Justiz und Polizei. Nach einem rechtshistorischen Überblick über die Entstehung von Polizei und Kriminalpolizei wendet er sich den (kriminal-)polizeilichen Rechtsgrundlagen zu. Sodann untersucht er den Aufbau und die...

The history of the law is known above all through its literature, an extraordinarily diverse body of texts in an equally diverse variety of formats. Histories of Legal Literature maps the past hundred years of English-language scholarship with a bibliography of 998 publications on the origins, authorship, dissemination, design, readership, and preservation of the works...

Ce manuel est destiné aux étudiants en première année de licence de droit ou d’AES, aux élèves des Instituts d’études politiques, ainsi qu’aux candidats aux concours de la fonction publique.

On qualifie d’institutions publiques les normes et les structures qui permettent de régir un pays : les dirigeants et les ministres, les assemblées et...

Fra XII e XIII secolo nelle città dell’Italia centro-settentrionale (e non solo) iniziarono a sorgere universitates mercantili dalla natura sfuggente. Assunsero la forma del tribunale, della corporazione, dell’ufficio comunale; ed ebbero in molti casi un ruolo cruciale nelle vicende politiche urbane ed extraurbane.

Attraverso un prolifico ricorso alla...