This volume formulates the hypothesis of a truly global revolution that reflected a Great Divide between ancient and new legal regimes. The volume brings together several case studies of transition from an ancient to a new legal regime characterized by the positivization of the law. This was an effect of Western imperialism, but also of local elites’ conviction that...

Retracer l’évolution des droits en Europe, c’est faire l’histoire de nos sociétés depuis le milieu du XVIIIe siècle, qui marque l’entrée dans l’ère contemporaine : Révolution française, révolution industrielle, revendications ouvrières, mouvements féministes ou familialistes ont provoqué de profondes transformations juridiques en France et ailleurs,...

Comment comprendre les événements politiques majeurs survenus sur tous les continents durant ces vingt-cinq dernières années ? Quel sens attribuer aux diverses (r)évolutions à la faveur desquelles se sont multipliés les « États de droit » ayant en vue d’assujettir, sous la férule du juge constitutionnel, le pouvoir politique au respect des droits fondamentaux de l’individu,...

En 1993, des affiches publicitaires Benetton avec des parties du corps humain tatouées « HIV POSITIVE » déclenchent des procès en France et en Allemagne. Les actions sont intentées en France par des malades du sida, Benetton est condamné en première instance et en appel à des dommages-intérêts. En Allemagne, c’est la Centrale...

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This book examines the actual practice of the interpretation of law in the Age of Enlightenment versus the ideology of the Age and explains the reason for and difference between the two. The ideology of the Age of Enlightenment was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and appropriately stated, thus making interpretation redundant. However, the reality...

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...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which began as a theoretical concept, has sparked a significant cultural revolution. The ongoing debate on CSR reveals how a company’s social interest is intertwined with specific forms of governance and organizational culture, influenced by competitive dynamics and entrepreneurial choices.

The volume traces the transition...

Ce Précis, consacré à la comparaison entre les droits, se veut simple et nouveau.

Simple, l’ouvrage l’est dans sa structure scindée en trois parties, chacune répondant à trois questions fondamentales :

This book is aimed at analysing how court decisions (precedent) function as a source of law by drawing on the comparison between jurisdictions from all over the world, from different legal families and with diverse legal traditions, including Brazil, China, England & Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Africa and Sweden.

The contributions cover various...