In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people s

This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil di

The principle of double effect has a long history, from scholastic disputations about self-defense and scandal to current debates about terrorism, torture, euth