Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies
Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies

Author: Mia Korpiola

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3319968637

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

​This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to the common people and the elite acquired legal knowledge and skills, how they used these in advocacy and legal writing and how legal literacy became an avenue for social mobility. Taking a comparative approach, contributors consider the historical contexts of England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. This book is divided into two main parts. The first part discusses various groups of legal literates (scriveners, court of appeal judges and advocates) and their different paths to legal literacy from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The second part analyses the rise of the ownership and production of legal literature – especially legal books meant for laymen – as means for acquiring a degree of legal literacy from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

Suicide, a Study in Sociology
Suicide, a Study in Sociology

Author: Émile Durkheim

Publisher: Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press

Published: 1951

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Translated from French, this classic provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society.

The Language of the Law
The Language of the Law

Author: David Mellinkoff

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-05-13

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 1592446906

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book tells what the language of the law is, how it got that way and how it works out in the practice. The emphasis is more historical than philosophical, more practical than pedantic.

Nature Conservation
Nature Conservation

Author: Dan Gafta

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-02-15

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 3540472290

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a multi-disciplinary coverage of the broad fields of species, community and landscape conservation. The panel of contributors consider a range of topics in vegetation and biodiversity assessment, planning and management of conservation zones and protected areas, together with historical and social/legal issues of the environment and nature conservation. The book celebrates the life’s work of Professor Franco Pedrotti.