Like medicine, law is replete with axioms of prevention. Prevention is better than cure has a long pedigree in both fields. 17th century jurist Sir Edward Coke observed that preventing justice excelleth punishing justice . A century later, Sir William Blackstone similarly stated that preventive justice is ...preferable in all respects to punishing justice . This book evaluates the feasibility and legitimacy of state attempts to regulate prevention. Though prevention may be desirable as a matter of policy, questions are inevitably raised as to its limits and legitimacy,...
Like medicine, law is replete with axioms of prevention. Prevention is better than cure has a long pedigree in both fields. 17th century...
In this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive treatment of textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade economy of Greece across 600 years during the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age. Analyzing the finished objects that sustained this kind of trade, she also situates these artifacts within the broader context of the ancient Mediterranean economy, including evidence for the import and export of commodities as well as demographic change. Murray argues that our current model of exchange during the Late Bronze Age is in need of a thoroughgoing...
In this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive treatment of textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade economy of Greece acr...