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devoted his whole life to studying it, since he has to earn a living in the meantime. 18 As Barbara Shapiro has recently explained, More’s “scathing attack” on English criminal law and administration echoed “proposals of radical reformers of the mid-17th century” ranging from the “abolition of the
entrepreneurial identity. By learning certain skills or a craft, people could distinguish themselves from their colleagues or competitors (distinctiveness), while simultaneously striving to become a member of a particular group (belonging), thereby guaranteeing job security and a certain standard of living. 1 In
emperor. It is a truism to say that change is a fundamental characteristic of human life. Any living law has to cope with the relationship between the law as it stands and developing and new conditions. The problem for Roman law in the Middle Ages dramatically illustrated the tensions between permanence
be lived out by men and women. The real-life practice of ‘romantic love’ first emerged as an experiment in bourgeois and intellectual circles. But it was an experiment that shone far beyond, offering a basis for the criticism of marriage as well as for alternative societal models, and it can still be
degrees of blood and affinal kinship. The issue of who was counted among one’s kin in everyday life from a personal perspective, however – for example, when deciding whom to invite to a wedding or inform about a death in the family – could involve an entirely different logic. Individual disciplines and
single whole (as a synonym of the res publica , the “commonwealth”, and the bonum commune ) was a commonplace in the urban republicanism of the seventeenth century. 22 Its ideals were not restricted to political life, but they permeated everyday life and were completely interwoven with the concept of
: rather than educating a few citizens to rule over the others, the laws and educational institutions should speak to all citizens, so that they can be communally ruled by understanding. 41 The preludes have been described as motivating ideals for obeying the law. 42 This is, perhaps, a good way to
predecessor Thomas Arnold with the idea of the unity of history and heralded it as ‘the truth which ought to be the centre and life of all our historic studies’. 61 As a concession to the ‘imperfect world’ in which he found himself at Oxford, to be sure, he defined ‘modern’ history for practical purposes
nation is living an independent life or has to submit to conquest, etc. p . vinogradoff , Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence (1920) Across epochs and peoples, legal thinkers have just as easily made recourse to principle at the earliest apprehension of a novel situation. In legal thought
of law. A permanent international court could serve the same purpose for the rest of the world. The United States was the living proof that the judicial settlement of disputes between sovereign States was not only possible, but was the definitive means to avoid the resort to war. Scott