The Eye of the Law

The Eye of the Law
Author: Michael Stolleis
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2008-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134028105

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial judge of the Underworld, the Eye of God watching past, present and future, the Eye of the Prince, guiding his subjects, to the almighty Eye of the Law. While our belief in the law may have become brittle, nothing escapes what is now the Eye of Big Brother. ‘In the Name of the Law’ takes up the various formulas used to legitimate the decisions of the courts, from the times of absolutism over the 19th century until today. The speaker who speaks in the name of a higher being underlines his function: his authority comes from above. And it is ‘in the name of’ god, king, people, state, nation, or law, that a weak, earthly, justice receives its support.

The Eye of the Law

The Eye of the Law
Author: Michael Stolleis
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2008-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134028113

Written by the eminent German historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ - The Eye of the Law and In the Name of the Law - offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us.

Above the Law

Above the Law
Author: Adrian Bleese
Publisher: Eye & Lightning Books
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1785632639

Adventures in a helicopter Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world. In Above The Law he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing and downright baffling episodes in his careerworking for Suffolk Constabulary and the National Police Air Service. Rescuing lost walkers, chasing cars down narrow country lanes, searching for a rural cannabis factory and disrupting an illegal forest rave...they're all in a day's work. It's a side of policing that most of us never see, and he describes it with real compassion as he lives his dream job, indulging his love of flying, the English landscape and helping people. Perhaps more than anything, it's a story about hope.

White by Law

White by Law
Author: Ian Haney Lopez
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814736947

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Eve Was Framed

Eve Was Framed
Author: Helena Kennedy
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1446468348

Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned, personal critique of the British legal system. Helena Kennedy focuses on the treatment of women in our courts - at the prejudices of judges, the misconceptions of jurors, the labyrinths of court procedures and the influence of the media. But the inequities she uncovers could apply equally to any disadvantaged group - to those whose cases are subtly affected by race, class poverty or politics, or who are burdened, even before they appear in court, by misleading stereotypes.

The Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi
Author: Hammurabi
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973773627

The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Akkadian language in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over eight feet tall (2.4 meters) that was found in 1901.

The Eye of the Law

The Eye of the Law
Author: Jill Eggleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781407101576

Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology

Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology
Author: Jon Roeckelein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1998-10-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0313008639

Fully cross-referenced and source-referenced, this dictionary contains over 1200 entries consisting of terms concerning laws, theories, hypotheses, doctrines, principles, and effects in early and contemporary psychological literature. Each entry consists of the definition/description of the term with commentary, followed by a number of cross-referenced, related terms, and by chronologically-ordered source references to indicate the evolution of the term. An appendix provides supplementary material on many laws and theories not included in the dictionary itself and will be helpful to students and scholars concerned with specialty areas in psychology.