About Death Penalty. Reflections on Legal History: From the Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian Precursors up to Gemanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages

by Volker Krey

Overview

The brief monograph at hand deals with the issue Death Penalty from a legal history standpoint. Here, after some introductory remarks on pre-state societies (hunters and gatherers), the following historic eras are subject matter: The Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian precursors, Germanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages. Target groups of this publication particularly are criminal lawyers, legal historians and general historians, self-evidently also students of such academic subjects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783170367852
Publisher:	Kohlhammer Verlag
Publication date:	03/27/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	45
File size:	347 KB

About the Author

Dr. Volker Krey, Full Professor of Law (criminal law, criminal procedure law, and legal methodology) at the State University of Trier; Judge of the Court of Appeals, criminal division, City of Koblenz (1978 & 1998).