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The text describes and contextualises collections of sermons by Lawrence of Brindisi about the Virgin Mary called Mariale, mainly the sermons about the teachings of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Lawrence ...

Family Law in the SOZ/GDR during the Stalinistic Period is characterized by a legislation that initially realizes Weimarian reform postulates, for example a new family procedural law or the law on women’s rights. Since...

Book review: MÜßIG, U. Reason and Fairness Constituting Justice in Europe, from Medieval Canon Law to ECHR. Legal History Library, vol. 2. Leiden: Brill Nijhof, 2019, 629 s.

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Laws in ancient Rome concerning the use of vis stated what was considered violence and how it was penalized. The most interesting among them were the lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis and two Augustan laws: the lex I...

The article provides a detailed analysis of life and professional career of Rudolf Wierer (1907–1986), professor of canon law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University. Based on an analysis of archival materials from...

The incorporation of the Bill of Rights against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment belongs among the most complex topics of American constitutional law. The first question to ask is obviously “Was the Bill of ...

In his article, the author discusses the development of American criminal law in the 19th century, with the focus on prison issues. In this context, he also recalls the views of the French thinker Michel Foucault on this...

The study examines the development of Czechoslovak military justice after 1945. The subject of the analysis is mainly the organisational structure of military prosecutors’ offices and courts. The text discusses the iss...

The protection of personality and the legal aspects of maintaining professional secrecy have a complicated history of development in many countries of the world. The evolvement of privacy rights and the protection of pro...

Kubeš, V. ...a chtěl bych to všechno znovu: filozofické vypořádání s pesimistickým světovým názorem. 2. dopl. a uprav. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2022, 293 s.

This article aims to analyze and synthesize the knowledge pertaining to the various aspects of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Czechoslovak Republic, particularly focusing on their influence on the n...

Memory of Prof. Miroslav Boháček.

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The article deals with the 1938 treatise History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), abbreviated AUCP(b) – an official treatise from the Stalin era of the USSR which was published on a mass scale. The author...

The paper sums up the requirements and demands for the driver training in Czech lands from the early 20th century to 1989. This period is associated with several political changes that were reflected also in the training...

Although the history of European law of succession is colourful, changes in its conception have been continuous, especially in case of transferring the claims. They have not been adopted equally consistently by all state...

The study deals with an important Slovak lawyer, university lecturer and writer Anton Vavrinec Ottmayer who lived and worked in the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom for the first two thirds of the 19th century. The paper...

The article deals with reform initiatives aimed at changing the legal status of married women in the period from the mid-1850s, when the first coordinated efforts to gain more property rights for married women began, to ...

The text does not intend to cover the legal position of women in the interwar drafts of a civil code in a complex manner, instead, it focuses on three different family law issues which were chosen to display how the view...

The article examines the Roman law institution of noxae deditio, which essentially served a dual function: (a) it allowed the slave’s master to choose between assuming liability for the damage caused or surrendering th...

This article addresses the question of whether and how the Lutheran Reformation led to a (further) pluralisation of legal systems. Since the beginning of the early modern period, primarily in the course of the 16th centu...

This contribution focuses on the development of the concept of the precarium from the beginning of its codification in the ABGB to the present day, focusing more closely on two historically established interpretations: t...