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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Lori Chambers’ fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice...
Law and the Gay Rights Story
The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and...
Champion of Civil Rights
Judge John Minor Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American...
by Frank Tannenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer...
The Enlightenment on Trial
Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants...
Reconstructing the Household
Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that...
Murder in Mississippi
United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like...
Payback
The Case for Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized...
Judging Bertha Wilson
Law as Large as Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history. This engaging, authorized, intellectual biography draws on interviews conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society...
Schools for Misrule
Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next. The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools...
Before Eminent Domain
Toward a History of Expropriation of Land for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.
Before...
English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381
A Transformation of Governance and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Robert Palmer's pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. The Black Death killed one-third of the English population...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, reflecting the daily realities of managing society. To understand Greek law, then, requires looking into...
The Generalist Counsel
How Leading General Counsel are Shaping Tomorrow's Companies
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
In the past two decades, the General Counsel in many companies has risen in importance, and the GC is now often involved in business strategy from the inception. Consequently, the position has become more desirable, lucrative, and competitive. Those who achieve it are required to be better versed...