"'Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial' employs a socio-legal approach to analyze the famous yet understudied 'Yildiz Trial,' surrounding the 1876 death of Sultan Abdülaziz, and this trial's representations in contemporary public discourses and subsequent historiog…
Introduction: (not) letting history judge -- Ottoman legalism -- Political trial -- Performing a show trial -- Legal burdens and political legacies -- Conclusion: imagining the law's rule "'Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial' employs a socio-legal approach to an…
"'Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial' employs a socio-legal approach to analyze the famous yet understudied 'Yildiz Trial,' surrounding the 1876 death of Sultan Abdülaziz, and this trial's representations in contemporary public discourses and subsequent historiog…
The constitutional state
by Barber, Nick W., (Nicholas William)
fromOxford constitutional theory
The constitutional state
by Barber, N. W., (Nicholas William)
fromOxford constitutional theory
"The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena. It presents the state as a form of social group, consisting of people, territory and institutions bound together by rules. The institutions of the state ma…
"Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that offer an "a…
"After eight years of President Bush's trumpeting the virtues of promoting freedom and democracy abroad but achieving limited results, many Americans have grown suspicious of democratic development as a goal of American foreign policy. As a new administration reviews the role de…
After eight years of President Bush's trumpeting the virtues of promoting freedom and democracy abroad but achieving limited results, many Americans have grown suspicious of democratic development as a goal of American foreign policy. As a new administration reviews the role dem…