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This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer
policy in Europe. It combines two dimensions: the making of
national consumer law and the making of European consumer law, and
how both are intertwined. The chapters on Germany, Italy, the
Nordic countries and the United Kingdom serve to explain the
economic and the political background which led to different legal
and policy approaches in the then old Member States from the 1960s
onwards. The chapter on Poland adds a different layer, the one of a
former socialist country with its own consumer law and how joining
the EU affected consumer law at the national level. The making of
European consumer law started in the 1970s rather cautiously, but
gradually the European Commission took an ever stronger position in
promoting not only European consumer law but also in supporting the
building of the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the umbrella
organisation of the national consumer bodies. The book unites the
early protagonists who were involved in the making of consumer law
in Europe: Guido Alpa, Ludwig Kramer, Ewa Letowska, Hans-W
Micklitz, Klaus Tonner, Iain Ramsay, and Thomas Wilhelmsson,
supported by the younger generation Aneta Wiewiorowska Domagalska,
Mateusz Grochowski, and Koen Docter, who reconstructs the history
of BEUC. Niklas Olsen and Thomas Roethe analyse the construction of
this policy field from a historical and sociological perspective.
This book offers a unique opportunity to understand a legal and
political field, that of consumer law and policy, which plays a
fundamental role in our contemporary societies.
Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830-1970 adds a new
dimension to the history of Britain's commerce, trade manufacturing
and financial services, by showing how they have operated in law
over the last one hundred and forty years. In the main law and
lawyers were not the driving force; regulation was largely absent;
and judges tended to accommodate commercial needs, so that market
actors were able to shape the law through their practices. Using
legal and historical scholarship, the author draws on archival
sources previously unexploited for the study of commercial practice
and the law's role in it. This book will stimulate parallel
research in other subject areas of law. Modern commercial lawyers
will learn a great deal about the current law from the story of its
evolution, and economic and business historians will see how the
world of commerce and trade operated in a legal context.
Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as
they moved in, through, and out of publicly accessible spaces in
the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch
Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to
rest. Its movement through public spaces indicated the potent
afterlife of the deviant body, especially its ability to transform
civic life. Focusing on material culture associated with key sites
of punishment, Anuradha Gobin argues that the circulation of visual
media related to criminal punishments was a particularly effective
means of generating discourse and formulating public opinion,
especially regarding the efficacy of civic authority. Certain types
of objects related to criminal punishments served a key role in
asserting republican ideals and demonstrating the ability of
officials to maintain order and control. Conversely, the
circulation of other types of images, such as inexpensive paintings
and prints, had the potential to subvert official messages. As
Gobin shows, visual culture thus facilitated a space in which
potentially dissenting positions could be formulated while also
bringing together seemingly disparate groups of people in a quest
for new knowledge. Combining a diverse array of sources including
architecture, paintings, prints, anatomical illustrations, and
preserved body parts, Picturing Punishment demonstrates how the
criminal corpse was reactivated, reanimated, and in many ways
reintegrated into society.
The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both
topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers
understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 18th
edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark
decisions on such topics as campaign finance, Obamacare, gay
marriage, the First Amendment, search and seizure, among others.
Updated through the end of the 2021 Supreme Court session, this
book remains and indispensable resource for undergraduate and law
school students, lawyers, and everyone interested in our nation's
laws and Constitution.
Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the
contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal
justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New
Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders
and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in
which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and
sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and
status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and
the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space
where men and women narrated their own story and at times
challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases,
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific
highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with
and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which
individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and
themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the
Pacific. With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the
complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the
courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was
performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent
practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial
law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and
local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the
Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial
administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards
criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging
from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with
cases of sexual assault.
The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both
topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers
understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 18th
edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark
decisions on such topics as campaign finance, Obamacare, gay
marriage, the First Amendment, search and seizure, among others.
Updated through the end of the 2021 Supreme Court session, this
book remains and indispensable resource for undergraduate and law
school students, lawyers, and everyone interested in our nation's
laws and Constitution.
James Wilson's life began as an Atlantic World success story, with
mounting intellectual, political, and legal triumphs, but ended as
a Greek tragedy. Each achievement brought greater anxiety about his
place in the revolutionary world. James Wilson's life story is a
testament to the success that tens of thousands of Scottish
immigrants achieved after their trans-Atlantic voyage, but it also
reminds us that not all had a happy ending. This book provides a
more nuanced and complete picture of James Wilson's contributions
in American history. His contributions were far greater than just
the attention paid to his legal lectures. His is a very human story
of a Scottish immigrant who experienced success and acclaim for his
activities on behalf of the American people during his public
service, but in his personal affairs, and particularly financial
life, he suffered the great heights and deep lows worthy of a Greek
tragedy. James Wilson's life is an entry point into the events of
the latter half of the 18th century and the impact of the Scottish
Enlightenment on American society, discourse, and government.
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