Challenges to authority and the recognition of rights from Magna Carta to modernity

"This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the twenty-second British Legal History Conference held at the University of Reading. The conference coincided with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta; the conference was thus concerned not only with Magna Carta itself but also with it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: MacMillan, Catharine, editor (editor), Smith, Charlotte (Charlotte Louise), editor
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2018
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  • Magna Carta : the emergence of the myth / John Baker
  • Benefit of clergy and the authority of Magna Carta / Margaret McGlynn
  • How to get rid of a king : lawyering the revolution of 1399 / David Seipp
  • Magna Carta and the fragmented authorities of the later Middle Ages / Anthony Musson
  • Revolution principles and the revolution bench / Mike Mcnair
  • Magna Carta clauses 4 and 5 and the problem of account / Joshua Getzler
  • Some effects of war on the law in late 18th and Early 19th-century England / James Oldham
  • Tax, freedom and social expectations : fiscal impact on the built environment in nineteenth-century England / Chantal Stebbings
  • The Magna Carta in the German discourse about English constitutional law between the 18th and the early 20th century / Andreas Thier
  • A Magna Carta for the world? : the constitutional protection of foreign subjects in the Age of Revolution / Daniel Hulsebosch
  • The state of slavery : the slave, grace, and the rise of pro-slavery constitutionalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Patricia Hagler Minter
  • The royal proclamation of 1763 : an indigenous Magna Carta's rough ride in British Columbia / Hamar Foster
  • Law : challenges to authority and the recognition of rights : examples from British India / Raymond Cocks
  • Unfortunate necessities of warfare? : Australia's national security regulations and the right to free speech during World War I / Diane Kirkby