Cannibalism And The Common Law
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Cannibalism And Common Law
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Author : Brian Simpson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-08-02
Cannibalism And Common Law written by Brian Simpson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-02 with History categories.
Cannibalism and the Common Law is an enthralling classic of legal history. It tells the tragic story of the yacht Mignonette, which foundered on its way from England to Australia in 1884. The killing and eating of one of the crew, Richard Parker, led to the leading case in the defence of necessity, R. v. Dudley and Stephens. It resulted in their being convicted and sentenced to death, a sentence subsequently commuted. In this tour de force Brian Simpson sets the legal proceedings in their broadest historical context, providing a detailed account of the events and characters involved and of life at sea in the time of sail. Cannibalism and the Common Law is a demonstration that legal history can be written in human terms and can be compulsive reading. This brilliant and fascinating book, a marvelous example of eareful historical detection, and first-class legal history, written by a master.
Cannibalism And The Common Law
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Author : A. W. Brian Simpson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Cannibalism And The Common Law written by A. W. Brian Simpson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Cannibalism categories.
Cannibalism And The Common Law
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Author : Alfred William Brian Simpson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Cannibalism And The Common Law written by Alfred William Brian Simpson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Describes the trial in 1884 of two young English sailors for the murder and cannibalism of a fellow shipmate
Cannibalism And The Common Law
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Author : Alfred William Brian Simpson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1985-10-01
Cannibalism And The Common Law written by Alfred William Brian Simpson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-10-01 with Cannibalism categories.
Cannibalism And The Common Law
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Author : A. W. Brian Simpson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Cannibalism And The Common Law written by A. W. Brian Simpson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Cannibalism categories.
Is Eating People Wrong
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Author : Allan C. Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Is Eating People Wrong written by Allan C. Hutchinson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Law categories.
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law as well as the characters and institutions (lawyers, judges and courts) that did much of the heavy lifting. By examining the consequences and fallout of these decisions, the book depicts the common law as an experimental, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalizing and bottom-up process, thereby revealing the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions and shifting demands. Great cases are one way to glimpse the workings of the common law as an untidy but stimulating exercise in human judgment and social accomplishment.
The Wetiko Legal Principles
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Author : Hadley Friedland
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
The Wetiko Legal Principles written by Hadley Friedland and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Child abuse categories.
In The Wetiko Legal Principles, Hadley Friedland explores how the concept of a wetiko can be used to address the unspeakable happenings that endanger the lives of many Indigenous children.
Law Liberty And The Constitution
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Author : Harry Potter
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2015
Law Liberty And The Constitution written by Harry Potter and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Law categories.
Throughout English history the rule of law and the preservation of liberty have been inseparable, and both are intrinsic to England's constitution. This accessible and entertaining history traces the growth of the law from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It shows how the law evolved from a means of ensuring order and limiting feuds to become a supremely sophisticated dispenser of justice and the primary guardian of civil liberties. This development owed much to the English kings and their judiciary, who, in the twelfth century, forged a unified system of law - predating that of any other European country - from almost wholly Anglo-Saxon elements. Yet by the seventeenth century this royal offspring - Oedipus Lex it could be called - was capable of regicide. Since then the law has had a somewhat fractious relationship with that institution upon which the regal mantle of supreme power descended, Parliament. This book tells the story of the common law not merely by describing major developments but by concentrating on prominent personalities and decisive cases relating to the constitution, criminal jurisprudence, and civil liberties. It investigates the great constitutional conflicts, the rise of advocacy, and curious and important cases relating to slavery, insanity, obscenity, cannibalism, the death penalty, and miscarriages of justice. The book concludes by examining the extension of the law into the prosecution of war criminals and protection of universal human rights and the threats posed by over-reaction to national emergencies and terrorism. Devoid of jargon and replete with good stories, Law, Liberty and the Constitution represents a new approach to the telling of legal history and will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the common law - the spinal cord of the English body politic. Harry Potter is a former fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a practising barrister specialising in criminal defence. He has authored books on the death penalty and Scottish history and wrote and presented an award-winning series on the history of the common law for the BBC.
An Intellectual History Of Cannibalism
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Author : Ctlin Avramescu
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-28
An Intellectual History Of Cannibalism written by Ctlin Avramescu and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-28 with History categories.
Annotation Based on the research he undertook in rare book collections housed in Scotland, the United States, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Germany and Austria, the author presents a systematic history of cannabalism as reflected in the mirror of philosophy.
Cannibalism
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Author : Bill Schutt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-02-14
Cannibalism written by Bill Schutt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with Science categories.
“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or other life-threatening circumstances, and few spent time studying it. A taboo subject in our culture, the behavior was portrayed mostly through horror movies or tabloids sensationalizing the crimes of real-life flesh-eaters. But the true nature of cannibalism--the role it plays in evolution as well as human history--is even more intriguing (and more normal) than the misconceptions we’ve come to accept as fact. In Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History,zoologist Bill Schutt sets the record straight, debunking common myths and investigating our new understanding of cannibalism’s role in biology, anthropology, and history in the most fascinating account yet written on this complex topic. Schutt takes readers from Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains, where he wades through ponds full of tadpoles devouring their siblings, to the Sierra Nevadas, where he joins researchers who are shedding new light on what happened to the Donner Party--the most infamous episode of cannibalism in American history. He even meets with an expert on the preparation and consumption of human placenta (and, yes, it goes well with Chianti). Bringing together the latest cutting-edge science, Schutt answers questions such as why some amphibians consume their mother’s skin; why certain insects bite the heads off their partners after sex; why, up until the end of the twentieth century, Europeans regularly ate human body parts as medical curatives; and how cannibalism might be linked to the extinction of the Neanderthals. He takes us into the future as well, investigating whether, as climate change causes famine, disease, and overcrowding, we may see more outbreaks of cannibalism in many more species--including our own. Cannibalism places a perfectly natural occurrence into a vital new context and invites us to explore why it both enthralls and repels us.