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by Bo Stråth, Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Roman law is widely considered to be the foundation of European legal culture and an inherent source of unity within European law. Roman Law and the Idea of Europe explores the emergence of this idea of Roman law as an idealized shared heritage, tracing its origins among exiled German scholars in...
Newsworthy
The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international...
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie
A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics.
The essays in this book, written by eminent law professors,...
Honorary Protestants
The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as “honorary...
by Peter Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe....
Imprisoned by the Past
Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penaltyconnects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey. By highlighting the relation between American history and an individual case, Imprisoned by the Past provides a unique understanding of the big...
Lawyering Europe
European Law as a Transnational Social Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
While scholarly writing has dealt with the role of law in the process of European integration, so far it has shed little light on the lawyers and communities of lawyers involved in that process. Law has been one of the most thoroughly investigated aspects of the European integration process, and EU...
Laws Harsh As Tigers
Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials,...
Mrs. Dred Scott
A Life on Slavery's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and...
by Tracy A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association
Much has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians have written her biography, detailed her campaign for woman’s suffrage, documented her partnership...
Only One Place of Redress
African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment...
Liberalizing Lynching
Building a New Racialized State
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In spite of America's identity as a liberal democracy, the vile act of lynching happened frequently in the Southern United States over the course of the nation's history. Indeed, lynchings were very public events, and were even advertised in newspapers, begging the question of how such a brazen disregard...
The Search for Justice
Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950–1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hold out the promise of a new and better nation.
The...
World War I Law and Lawyers
Issues, Cases, and Characters
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The global story of the legal side of WWI and its legacy is now told in this new book. Eighty legal issues are identified from this war, ranging from the ancient rights of kings to deploying modern technology like airplanes and poison gases, from mutiny to blockade, from supplying and funding wars...