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| Enlightened Feudalism: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe) |
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| Thousands of seigneurial courts covered the French countryside in the early modern era. By the eighteenth century these courts were subject to mounting criticism, as Enlightenment concerns about rationality and standardization combined with older absolutist worries that lords' ownership of justice weakened the king's authority. Although the courts were abolished in 1789, this criticism persisted, with historians traditionally portraying them as marginal and abusive relics of a bygone feudal age. In Enlightened Feudalism, Jeremy Hayhoe demonstrates that these local institutions actually functioned with a degree of efficiency, professionalism, and attention to peasant concerns that few historians have appreciated. Set in Northern Burgundy, this study reveals how provincial administrative elites quietly encouraged the use of simpler procedure for minor disputes, thus bringing seigneurial courts closer to village life. But these reforms paradoxically made the newly invigorated courts a key instrument of the late eighteenth-century intensification of the seigneurie. Peasant ambivalence toward seigneurial courts reflected this duality, as the cahiers de doléances both praised the institution for its role in community affairs, and vigorously criticized it for bolstering the seigneurial system. By situating the local court within a wide range of para-judicial institutions and behaviors, Hayhoe presents a new vision of village society, one in which communal bonds were too weak to enforce behavioral norms. Village communities had substantial authority over their own affairs, but required the frequent and active collaboration of the court to enforce the rules that they put into place. Jeremy Hayhoe is assistant professor at the Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. |
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| The transatlantic rift: US leadership after September 11. (Perspectives on the United States).(European, American views on global security): An article from: Harvard International Review |
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This digital document is an article from Harvard International Review, published by Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The transatlantic rift: US leadership after September 11. (Perspectives on the United States).(European, American views on global security)
Author: Javier Solana
Publication: Harvard International Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc.
Volume: 24 Issue: 4 Page: 62(5)
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| New Perspectives on Aggression Replacement Training: Practice, Research and Application (Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology) |
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| Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is a cognitive-behavioural intervention targeted to aggressive adolescents and children, which is being increasingly adopted worldwide. The outcome of the first major conference on the growing status of ART and its future directions, this book's coverage includes the cognitive-behavioural context of ART, the component procedures, various training approaches and program applications, research evaluations and 'extensions and elaborations'. |
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| Stewards Of Democracy: Law As Public Profession (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society) |
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| Argues that judges, lawyers, and law schools should emphasize experience and character over reason or arcane learning, to create a more democratic legal profession in tune with the public interest. Stewards of Democracy beckons judges and lawyers to a professional tradition supportive of the institutions of self-government. It challenges the beliefs of many American judges, legal scholars, and law teachers that political decisions can often best be made by high courts who are independent of the citizens they purport to govern. Among those challenged to reconsider their roles are the Supreme Court of the United States, eminent legal scholars, and distinguished law schools, which reinforce one another in the belief that they know best how Americans should live. The careers of Thomas Cooley, Louis Brandeis, Ernst Freund, Learned Hand, and Byron White are considered as examples of the contrary tradition respectful of democracy as the source of the political, economic, and social stability required to sustain other valued rights. |
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 All lawyers and concerned citizens should read this book |
| Review Date: March 24, 2004 |
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| This is a wonderful book by a former law professor of mine. Taking up some "exemplars" from the early days of the law profession in the United States, Professor Carrington takes a thorough and unsentimental look at the development of legal education, the legal profession and the law itself in America. This leads into the second half of the book which deals quite harshly with the advent of autocratic "judicial heroism" which has increasingly supplanted the democratic process in many areas of American life. Do you remember getting to vote on abortion? Whether corporations have the right to freedom of speech? About many other issues? How you would have voted (either directly or through your representative) is arguably secondary to the fact that you had no part in making decisions about fundamental societal issues that affect you directly. Professor Carrington's book is a wake-up call to lawyers, legal educators, judges and legislators alike. (...) |
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| New Perspectives on Human Embryonic Stemcell Research: What you Need to Know about the Legal, Moral & Ethical Issues |
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| As of late, many books and articles have been addressing the topic of human embryonic stemcell research. They all appear to run the regular gauntlet of touching upon familiar issues, but not daring to venture too deeply into territory held sacred by religion, science, and philosophy. This book moves sharply away from that well-worn path and is aimed to encourage the reader to approach this volatile and contentious topic from a new perspective. This book accomplishes that, in part, by challenging those stalwarts of human conscience: morality, philosophy, and religion. For those readers predisposed to deep and honest reflecting, the words found here could cause them initial discomfort as they lead the reader to question the validity of their sense of cultural substance and proportionality. Dr. Frazier was born and raised in the south eastern U.S., from where his family later moved to Washington, D.C. He now resides in San Francisco, CA. which is possibly the heart of stemcell research. He did his undergraduate work in Biological Sciences at San Jose State University, and earned a J.D. from the University of Utah, and an L.L.M. and an S.J.D. in International Legal Studies from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has qualified to practice law in three states, and in the District of Columbia. His prior publication experience includes Staff Editor and writer for the Journal of Environmental Law and Energy at the University of Utah, and a Senior Staff Editor for the Golden Gate Journal of International Law. His interests include travel, foreign languages, philosophy, science, law, home remodeling, the performing arts, and philanthropic activities; someday he plans to put on an apron, step into a kitchen, and put his considerable creative skills to the test as a cook. He further plans to research and write more extensively in matters relating to law, humanism and science fiction. |
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| Investor and Industry Perspectives on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers |
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| In theory, financial professionals are relatively distinct: A broker-dealer conducts transactions in securities on behalf of itself and others; and an investment adviser provides advice to others regarding securities. Different laws regulate each type of professional, but boundaries have blurred. This report examines current business practices and investor understanding of each type. |
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| Equality and Transparency: A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law (Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy) |
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This book seeks to develop and analyze in detail a key paradox of affirmative action in higher education, employment, and government contracting. This paradox is that the two chief justifications for affirmative action--compensation for past discrimination and achievement of diversity--each raise difficult problems from the point of view of a coherent, neutral, and universalistic legal determination. In addition, a third possible justification, that of achieving a society that is truly color-blind or without consciousness of race, cannot be achieved by race-based affirmative action policies. As a result of this paradox, it is necessary that the justification of affirmative action policies is not transparent. The process must conceal the way in which it is actually carried out, using means that perhaps violate our common ideas of law based on neutral and universalistic standards, as well as our common commitment to merit-based selection processes.
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