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Recent Submissions
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Pathways and practice : the general practitioner in nineteenth-century Dundee
(2018-08-17) - Journal articleAlthough the care of the basic medical needs of much of the population, or what might be termed general medicine, accounted by the mid nineteenth century for the work of the majority of medical men in Britain, those who ... -
Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-06-07) - Book itemIn Roman law, an inheritance could be passed on according to the rules of intestate or testate succession. The Roman law of succession presents people with an enormous display of legal ingenuity. This chapter analyses some ... -
Rules, power and constitutions : following Onuf
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-05-23) - Book itemThis chapter explores the role of power in the theory of global constitutionalism. It draws on the work of Nicholas Onuf, whose launched constructivist IR theory. It borrows from Onuf the idea of rules and rule making, but ... -
The Aurunci and Sidicini
(de Gruyter, 2017-11) - Book item -
III - Contractarianism as a political morality
(2016-05-26) - Journal articleContractarianism initially made its mark, in the seventeenth century, as a sort of theory of everything in ethics. But gradually philosophers became convinced that there were resources available outside contractarianism ...
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