Juries in Ireland: laypersons and law in the long nineteenth century (Irish Legal History Society)

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-266
Author(s):  
John McEldowney
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Legal History

scholarly journals A Legal History of the New Zealand Jury Service - Introduction, Evolution, and Equality?

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
Michèle Powles
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Jury Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jury System ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Service Introduction

This article traces the development of the New Zealand jury system. Most noteworthy in thisdevelopment has been the lack of controversy the system has created. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, the pursuit of equality in the legal system generally led to debate and reform of juries in relation to representation, race and gender.

Labour Between Law and Literature: Historical Similarities and Critical Propositions on the Present

Pólemos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiziano Toracca
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Labour Law

AbstractThis paper aims to demonstrate that there is a fundamental similarity between Italian literary history and the most significant contributions to labour law which have been put forward between the end of the nineteenth century and today. My claim is that there is a homology between literary history and legal history. Moreover, I argue that many Italian novels of the last few decades have represented labour as a

Delivering Justice in Qing China

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linxia Liang
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Chinese Law ◽  
Civil Trials ◽  
Criminal Matters

Traditional Chinese law, including Qing law, was often criticized as being inapplicable in civil trials, and it was often believed that the magistrate's court preferred mediation rather than decision-making. This volume challenges these views. With a detailed analysis of the Qing law codes and of 100 nineteenth-century case records from Baodi county, the volume examines much-debated issues such as the approach of Qing law to civil and criminal matters, punishment and mediation in civil trials, Confucius' preference for education and the idea of anti-litigation. This book brings a lawyer's perspective to some of the most debated issues in Chinese legal history.

Essays in Nineteenth-Century American Legal History

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
George Dargo ◽  
Wythe Holt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Legal History

Law and Society: Structuring Legal Revolutions, 1870-1920

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Waldrep
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Late Nineteenth

In the 1970s and 1980s some of the most exciting work in legal history challenged late-nineteenth-century law as following a false formalism, only pretending to reason from abstract principles isolated from life's realities. Others took a different view, but these scholars insisted that law should be seen as political or economically determined rather than emerging from principle. Law was no more than a system of argumentative exchange. “Of dialectics there is no end,” one observed. In this view, principled law served only as a cover for economic avarice and political strength. If law merely reflects power, then there is really little reason for historians to study law or constitutionalism, and the recent migration of the historical study of constitutionalism, away from history departments and into law schools is well placed.

Genres for the Prosecution: Pornography and the Gothic

PMLA ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 114 (5) ◽  
pp. 1043-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gamer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Charles Robert Maturin ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Matthew Lewis ◽  
Charlotte Dacre ◽  
History Of

Recent accounts of genre have asserted that all texts participate in multiple genres and that genre works as a kind of contract between writers and readers. In the legal history of eighteenth-century British prosecutions for obscene libel and the reception history of gothic fiction at the turn of the nineteenth century, however, the model of genre as contract breaks down. At the end of the eighteenth century, several texts we now call gothic faced threatened prosecution under existing obscene libel laws. The reception histories of the fiction of Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, and Charles Robert Maturin demonstrate that public denouncements and threatened prosecution forced gothic texts, even as they theoretically participated in at least one genre, to belong to a legal category (obscenity) for which their writers never intended them.

scholarly journals Crossing Boundaries: Nineteenth-Century Domestic Relations Law and the Merger of Family and Legal History

1985 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Grossberg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Family Law ◽  
American Family ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Domestic Relations ◽  
History Of

This essay argues for the need to study the legal history of the American family. It does so by combining a critique of secondary literature in family and legal history with examples from nineteenth-century domestic relations law. These examples, drawn from family law doctrines on seduction under the cover of a marriage promise, runaway marriages, and bastardy, are used to indicate the benefits of adding a sociocultural dimension to legal history and legal and institutional dimensions to family history. Three main themes in the history of nineteenth-century domestic relations law are developed to make these points: the law's particular fabric of issues, its distribution of authorship, and its chronological development, These themes suggest why a full understanding of the legal history of the American family requires crossing the boundaries between legal and family history.

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