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This section of our blog features articles that have to do exclusively with Legal history. The Leiden Law Blog is part of the Leiden Law School, Leiden University. The blog stands out by reacting to the latest news while at the same time touching on the research being performed within our faculty.
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
7M ago
Scattered in the Digests are the remains of a book by the famous jurist Julius Paulus, containing reports of cases judged by several Roman emperors. The Leiden Legal History Department has won an NWO grant to reconstruct this book and its social setting ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
In US history, moments of protest and dissent have often been met with calls to reinstate ‘law and order’. The presidential election will be a test of President Trump’s ‘law and order’ politics ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
The Black Panther Party was a political organization in the United States during the 1960s-1980s. Labelled the greatest threat to internal security by the FBI, the Party was primarily focused on monitoring police officer behaviour through Panther Patrols and running community survival programs ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
Fragmentation occurs when international proceedings that involve the same parties and raise the same issues arrive at different conclusions. The conflict in the ICTY’s Tadic decision and the ICJ’s Bosnian Genocide decision – an issue or an exception ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
In recent years, elections of judges to the ICJ have shown their political side. States try to place their candidates for the term of nine years. This entry investigates how this period of office evolved and still influences the work of the court ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
A century after the implementation of the WvSNI (the Netherland Indies criminal code), the Indonesian parliament wants to replace Dutch colonial inheritance in the criminal code with a new code, which recognises so-called Indonesian “values ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
Due to the inclusion of unwritten laws, surviving from the Stone Age, the (pre-Hammurabi) Sumerian legal system was surprisingly liberal. We can still learn from it, now that our system has caused the ethical dimension to wither – with dire consequences ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
The preliminary reference procedure is not a modern invention. It has travelled a long way through time and space – from southern to northern Europe, from Roman imperial times to the 21st century ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
The death penalty is running out of favour. The legal argument is, among others, that erroneous judgments are irrevocable. Moral arguments include the sanctity of human life. Economically, the death penalty leads to high costs. These arguments are not new ..read more
Leiden Law Blog » Legal history
2y ago
How to gain the support of your subjects after a civil war? A judicial solution to a political problem ..read more