In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket s defining controversies bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in cricket.
Cricket and the Law charts the interrelationship between cricket and legal theory between the law of the game and the law of our lives and demonstrates how cricket s cultural conventions can escape the confines of the game to carry far...
Cricket, law and the meaning of life ...
In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket s defining con...
This text charts the inter-relationship between cricket and legal theory - between the law of the game and the law of our lives. Fraser draws connections and commonalities between these seemingly disparate, complex sets of conventions.
This text charts the inter-relationship between cricket and legal theory - between the law of the game and the law of our lives. Fraser draws connecti...
In the spring of 1942, Nazi forces occupying the Ukraine launched a wave of executions targeting the region s remaining Jewish communities. These mass shootings were open, public, and intimate. Although the victims themselves could never testify against their killers, many eyewitnesses could and did identify the perpetrators.Among these communities, three local men from the villages of Serniki, Israylovka, and Gnivan were intimately implicated in such killing operations: Ivan Polyukhovich, a forester in the German-controlled administration; Heinrich Wagner, a Volksdeutscher liaison officer;...
In the spring of 1942, Nazi forces occupying the Ukraine launched a wave of executions targeting the region s remaining Jewish communities. These mass...
From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under German occupation. During that period, local courts continued to function and to apply Island law and lawyers, judges, and government officials in Jersey and Guernsey continued to swear oaths of allegiance to the British Crown. But German anti-Semitic laws and other measures were introduced and became part of the legal system. This book examines the ways in which officials cooperated in the implementation of legal measures against the Islands' Jewish community and their property. Resident Jews were registered by...
From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under German occupation. During that period, local courts continued to fun...
When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as "honorary Protestants," based on complex negotiations with the Protestant and Catholic school boards, the provincial government, and individual municipalities. In the face of the constitution's exclusionary language, all parties gave their compromise a legal form which was frankly unconstitutional, but...
When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to ...
