Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Brust, Richard, Chambers V. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution. (Government and Politics in the South) 204 pp. 2025:5 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <737-618>
ISBN 978-0-8130-8102-1 paper ¥7,430.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v. Florida to ban confessions obtained through mental or physical coercion in criminal trials. This landmark ruling laid the groundwork for many later protections for those in the custody of law enforcement. This book shows how the case contributed to what is now known as the "criminal procedure revolution," a series of Supreme Court rulings that found protections in the Bill of Rights applied not only to defendants in federal cases but also to those in state legal systems.The trial that sparked this chain of events resulted from the robbing and murder of a white fish market owner in Pompano, Florida, in 1933. Local law enforcement officers extracted confessions from four Black migrant workers after a week of torture and abuse. Simuel McGill, a Black lawyer based in Jacksonville, mounted appeals, kept the accused men safe from lynchings, and eventually took the case to the nation's highest court, where Justice Hugo Black, among other parts of the ruling, compared justice systems in the Jim Crow South to those of totalitarian nations in 1930s Europe. This book fully explores the case, often overlooked by historians, and its ripple effects-such as the "Miranda rights" formalized in 1966, including the "right to remain silent."Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution demonstrates the influence of African American lawyers in early criminal and civil rights cases, as well as the growing public awareness of abuses of power by white sheriffs and law enforcement authorities during this time. It highlights the ever-present need to safeguard protections for minority and impoverished individuals accused of crimes, reminding readers that with perseverance and vigilance, justice can prevail.A volume in the series Government and Politics in the South, edited by Sharon D. Wright Austin and Angela K. Lewis-Maddox

Cassanello, Robert (ed.), Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810-1968. (Government and Politics in the South) 234 pp. 2025:7 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <737-619>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7937-0 hard ¥19,107.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *

アンテベラム期の南部における裁判官選挙の台頭
Gold, David M, Democracy and the Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections in the Antebellum South. 296 pp. 2025:6 (U. South Carolina Pr., US) <737-621>
ISBN 978-1-64336-565-7 hard ¥10,612.- (税込) US$ 49.99 *

The first comprehensive examination of the development of judicial elections in the American South The practice of choosing state judges by popular election is a unique aspect of American democracy. First appearing in Mississippi in 1832 and then sweeping across the United States, judicial elections had a distinctly Southern origin. Prior scholarship seeking to explain the broad acceptance of the elected judiciary mainly relied on the records of northern-state constitutional conventions. In Democracy and the Courts, David M. Gold, focusing on the nineteenth-century American South, offers the first comprehensive e exploration of the advent of this often-controversial democratic reform in the nineteenth-century American South. Making intensive use of primary sources, such as constitutional convention proceedings, legislative journals, and newspapers, in Democracy and the Courts Gold explores the various paths taken by southern states toward the elective judiciary and the reasons why some states accepted judicial elections only partially or rejected them altogether. He considers the impact of judicial elections on judicial review before the Civil War and looks to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, assessing the final and ironic triumph of the elective judiciary during the decidedly undemocratic Jim Crow era.

Kaufmann, Frank-Michael (Hrsg.), Glossen zum Sachsenspiegel-Lehnrecht. Die Wurm'sche Glosse: Unter Mitarbeit von Matthias Witzleb. 2 Bde. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica - Fontes iuris germanici antiqui Nova Series 12) LXXXII, 752 S. 2024:9 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <737-622>
ISBN 978-3-447-12240-5 hard ¥37,125.- (税込) EUR 150.00

Die Arbeitsstelle ?Sachsenspiegel-Glossen“ der Monumenta Germaniae Historica an der Saechsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig legt ? nach bereits fuenf Glossen zum Sachsenspiegel-Lehnrecht ? ihr nunmehr sechstes Arbeitsergebnis vor. Mit der zweibaendigen Edition der Wurm?schen Glosse wird der wissenschaftlichen Welt erstmals eine modernen Anspruechen genuegende historisch-kritische Ausgabe dieses wichtigen juristischen Quellentextes zur Verfuegung gestellt. Damit ist fuer die Glossen zum Sachsenspiegel-Lehnrecht ein weiterer erfolgreicher Schritt getan, um auf verlaesslicher Textgrundlage die bedeutende spaetmittelalterliche Quellengattung ?Sachsenspiegel-Glossen“, also die nach den Arbeitsmethoden der Bologneser Juristen seit dem 14. Jahrhundert vorgenommenen Auslegungen, Erlaeuterungen und Kommentierungen des Sachsenspiegels, fuer weiterfuehrende Forschungen zu erschliessen. Die Edition bietet auf Grundlage der zwei noch erhaltenen handschriftlichen Textzeugen den Text des Sachsenspiegel-Lehnrechts mit der Glosse des Nikolaus Wurm (vor 1350 bis nach 1401). Ein mehrteiliger Anhang sowie ein Namen- und ein Quellenregister beschliessen die Ausgabe.

Lippman, Matthew, Amy Mallard and Racial Justice: Lynching, Law, and Resistance in Post-World War II America. 209 pp. 2025:7 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <737-623>
ISBN 978-0-8130-8101-4 paper ¥7,430.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Makilla, Dariusz, Constitutional Order in Post-Versailles Central and Eastern Europe 1919-1939/1941. (Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau 44) X, 170 S. 2024:7 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <737-624>
ISBN 978-3-447-12210-8 hard ¥11,880.- (税込) EUR 48.00 *

神学の文化における法－パリの神学者によるカノン法の利用　1120～1220年
Eichbauer, Melodie H., Law in a Culture of Theology: The Use of Canon Law by Parisian Theologians, ca. 1120-ca. 1220. 312 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-135>
ISBN 978-1-032-73609-9 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-73608-2 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Law in a Culture of Theology: The Use of Canon Law by Parisian Theologians, ca. 1120-ca. 1220 considers the study of law within its intellectual environment. It demonstrates that theologians associated with the schools of Paris in the twelfth century, particularly Peter the Chanter and his circle, had a working knowledge of Romano-canonical tradition and thought about the human context of the law, which, in turn, reflected the environment in which each master worked. It begins by showing the extent to which law was woven into the fabric of the schools of Paris, and follows with individual case studies.These case studies-marriage in Hugh of St. Victor's De Sacramentis and Peter Lombard's Sententiae, excommunication in Peter the Chanter's Summa de sacramentis et animae consiliis, crusade activity and heresy in Robert of Coucon's Summa penitentiae, homicide in Robert of Flamborough's Liber poenitentialis, and the faces of greed in Thomas of Chobham's Summa confessorum-demonstrate how each theologian drew upon legal thought, for what end he was using it, and how his use of law fit into contemporary legal thinking. A competency in law proved valuable to, and was tailored for, different types of ecclesiastical roles: teachers showing students how to analytically navigate complex questions of pastoral care, papal judge-delegate on the cusp of full-time administration on behalf of the papacy, penitentiarius of St. Victor and the students at the University of Paris, or diocesan management.This book will be a useful resource for all students and researchers interested in medieval canon law, medieval theology and pre-modern law.