Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness. This book focuses on tobacco litigation in the U.S. wherein 50 historians have witnessed in 314 court cases from 1986 to 2014. The author examines the use of historical arguments in court and investigates how a legal context influences historical narratives and discourse in forensic history. Delafontaine asserts that the courtroom is a performative and fact-making theatre. Nonetheless, he argues that the civic responsibility of the historian should...
Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness. This...
This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suarez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius.
This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suarez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo G...
This work focuses specifically on the 18th century supreme court of the Austrian Netherlands and provides a broad overview with attention to other aspects of the tribunal's functioning and to its role in 18th century attempts at state formation.
This work focuses specifically on the 18th century supreme court of the Austrian Netherlands and provides a broad overview with attention to other asp...
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law.
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th cen...
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This second volume of ReConFort addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity, and focuses on discourses concerning the legal role of constitutional norms.
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This second volume of ReConFort addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity...
This book examines how the nation - and its (fundamental) law - are `sensed' by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy.
This book examines how the nation - and its (fundamental) law - are `sensed' by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until ou...
This peer-reviewed book features essays on the Armenian massacres of 1915-1916. However, the European Court of Human Rights views criminal prosecution of denial of the Armenian massacres as unlawful. In addition, one essay considers a state's obligation to remember by looking at lessons learnt from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
This peer-reviewed book features essays on the Armenian massacres of 1915-1916. However, the European Court of Human Rights views criminal prosecution...
