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El autor centra su ensayo en la reconstrucción de la identidad personal en los últimos tiempos, o para ser más precisos, en el siglo XIX y más allá, la identidad personal, se volvió más problemática, más confusa; mezclada y borrosa.
Lawrence M. Friedman
Es un historiador jurídico galardonado y de renombre internacional. Durante una generación ha sido el principal expositor de la historia del derecho estadounidense, y una figura destacada...
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The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact of inheritance is more than a matter of money; it is also a matter of what money buys and brings about. Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on...
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Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, and exploration in criminal case files to give a detailed reconstruction of the operations of the county's entire criminal justice system. By tracing the process from arrest to trial, sentencing, and punishment, this study will have a profound effect on our perception...
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