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The ‘Minor’ War Crimes Trials
A Socio-Legal Investigation of Victims’ Justice
The Minor War Crimes Trials: A Socio-Legal History reconstructs the legal and military history of the ‘minor’ war crimes trials held in Occupied Germany and elsewhere from 1945-8. Although the International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg, from the end of 1945, is extremely well known,...
To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Welfare's Forgotten Past
A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not...
Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish