1st Edition
The Making of Criminal Law The Role of Case Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries
1. The Contribution of Case Law to the Making of Western Criminal Law
Aniceto Masferrer
France:
2. Case law in the Court of Cassation: Interpreting Codification, Production, and Physiology of Judgments (1811-1863)
Claire Bouglè-Le Roux
3. French Case Law about the Age of Minority: A Historical Study about the Relationships Between Jurisprudence and Juvenile Delinquency
Jean-Louis Halperin
Spain:
4. The Burden of Proof in the Crime of Adultery in Spain: The Contribution of the Supreme Court (1870-1978)
Aniceto Masferrer
5. Diving into Spanish Legal Dissonance: Honour as a 19th Century Two-Sided Normative Reality
José Franco-Chasán
Portugal:
6. Neither One nor the Other: Gender, Sex, and Marriage on Trial in Portugal during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Maria Clara Calheiros
The Netherlands:
7. The Dutch Supreme Court on Rape and Sexual Assault between 1886 and 1991
Janwillem Oosterhuis
Austria:
8. Homosexuality in Austrian Penal Law and the Role of the Supreme Court
Martin P. Schennach
Hungary:
9. Judicial Decisions Shaping Criminal Law: Eight Decades of Sedition Cases in Hungary
Emőd Veress and Bence Zsolt Kovács
Denmark:
10. Dolus Eventualis in Danish Criminal Law: The Introduction of a Legal Concept by the Supreme Court
Per Andersen
Sweden:
11. Case Law between the Adoption of Two Criminal Codes, Sweden 1864-1962: The Definition of Rape and Aspects of Criminal Intent
Martin Sunnqvist
Finland:
12. Supreme Court of Finland’s Theft Rulings in the Context of Crises and Modernization
Esko Hakkinen
Russia:
13. Evolution of Slander and Libel in the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia (1870-1970)
Tatiana Alekseeva
USA:
14. Infidelity, Legality, and Southern Jurisprudence: The Newly Established Georgia State Supreme Court and its Contribution to Adultery as a Criminal Offense
Julie Rocheton
Chile:
15. Deterrence and Criminal Law: A First Panorama on the Application of Article 483 of the Criminal Law in Chilean Courts (1878-1887)
Loris de Nardi and María Macarena Cordero Fernández
Biography
Aniceto Masferrer is Professor of Legal History at the University of Valencia, Spain.
