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Domestic and international trials, 1700-2000 /

"How does the trial function? What are the tools, in terms of legal principle, scientific knowledge, social norms, and political practice, which underpin this most important decision-making process? This collection of nine essays by an international group of scholars explores these crucial ques...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Melikan, R. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : New York, NY : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.
Colección:Trial in history ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / R.A. Melikan
  • Evidence law and the evidentiary objection: a view from the British Trials collection / T.P. Gallanis
  • Sense and sensibility: fateful splitting in the Victorian insanity trial / Joel Peter Eigen
  • Trials of character: the use of character evidence in Victorian sodomy trials / H.G. Cocks
  • Pains and penalties procedure: how the House of Lords 'tried' Queen Caroline / R.A. Melikan
  • The invention of trials in camera in security cases / A.W. Brian Simpson
  • War crimes trials before international tribunals: legality and legitimacy / Dominic McGoldrick
  • An embarrassing necessity: the Tokyo trial of Japanese leaders, 1946-48 / Peter Lowe
  • The trial of Maurice Papon for crimes against humanity and the concept of bureaucratic crime / Robert Boyce
  • The trial of Slobodan Milosevic: a twenty-first century trial? / Dominic McGoldrick.