Vernacular Law
Vernacular Law

Author: Ada Maria Kuskowski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-11-03

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1009217909

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Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in the medieval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, custom went from being a largely oral and performed practice to one that was also conceptualized in writing. Based on French lawbooks known as coutumiers, Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the repercussions this transformation – in the form of custom from unwritten to written and in the language of law from elite Latin to common vernacular – had on the cultural world of law. Vernacular Law offers a new understanding of the formation of a new field of knowledge: authors combined ideas, experience and critical thought to write lawbooks that made disparate customs into the field known as customary law.

Law and Language in the Middle Ages
Law and Language in the Middle Ages

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9004375767

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Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.

Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change
Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change

Author: Steven A. Boutcher

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-07-01

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1789907675

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The study of law and social movements provides an ideal lens for rethinking fundamental questions about the relationship between law and power. This Research Handbook takes up that challenge, framing a new, more global, dynamic, reflexive, and contextualised phase of social movement studies.

Making Laws for a Christian Society
Making Laws for a Christian Society

Author: Roy Flechner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 135126723X

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This is the first comprehensive study of the contribution that texts from Britain and Ireland made to the development of canon law in early medieval Europe. The book concentrates on a group of insular texts of church law—chief among them the Irish Hibernensis—tracing their evolution through mutual influence, their debt to late antique traditions from around the Mediterranean, their reception (and occasional rejection) by clerics in continental Europe, their fusion with continental texts, and their eventual impact on the formation of a European canonical tradition. Canonical collections, penitentials, and miscellanies of church law, and royal legislation, are all shown to have been 'living texts', which were continually reshaped through a process of trial and error that eventually gave rise to a more stable and more coherent body of church laws. Through a meticulous text-critical study Roy Flechner argues that the growth of church law in Europe owes as much to a serendipitous 'conversation' between texts as it does to any deliberate plan overseen by bishops and popes.

The New Legal Realism: Volume 2
The New Legal Realism: Volume 2

Author: Heinz Klug

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1316495361

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This is the second of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. Volume 2 explores the integration of global perspectives and information into our understanding of law. Increasingly, local experiences of law are informed by broader interactions of national, international, and global law. Lawyers, judges, and other legal actors often have to respond to these broader contexts, while those pursuing justice in various global contexts must wrestle with the specific problems of translation that emerge when different concepts of law and local circumstances interact. Using empirical research, the authors in this path-breaking volume shed light on current developments in law at a global level.

Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis
Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis

Author: Anna Grear

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-07-31

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1784711330

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In the climate-pressed Anthropocene epoch, nothing could be more urgent than fresh engagements with the fractious relationships between ÔhumanityÕ, law and the living order. This timely book intelligently combines theoretical reflections, doctrinal ana

Law and Policy for a New Economy
Law and Policy for a New Economy

Author: Melissa K. Scanlan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-05-26

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1786434520

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This book makes the case for a New Environmentalism, and using a systems change approach, takes the reader through ideas for reorienting the economy. It addresses the laws and policies needed to support the emergence of a new economy across a variety of major areas – from energy to food, across common pool resources, and shifting investments to capitalize locally-connected and mission-driven businesses. The authors take the approach that the challenges are much broader than setting parameters around pollution, and go to the heart of the dominant global political economy. It explores the values needed to transform our current economic system into a new economy supportive of ecological integrity, social justice, and vibrant democracy.

Green Governance
Green Governance

Author: Burns H. Weston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-01-21

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1107034361

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The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment" as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law. Green Governance is a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. It opens the door to a new set of solutions by proposing a compelling new synthesis of environmental protection based on broader notions of economics and human rights and on commons-based governance. Going beyond speculative abstractions, the book proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound.

Peoples' Tribunals and International Law
Peoples' Tribunals and International Law

Author: Andrew Byrnes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1108421679

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This is the first book to analyse how civil society tribunals implement and develop international law. With multi-disciplinary contributions covering tribunals in Europe, Latin America and Asia, this edited collection will interest scholars of law, criminology, human rights, politics, sociology, anthropology and international relations.