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by Paul Kens, Herbert A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In The Supreme Court under Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888, Paul Kens provides a history of the Court during a time that began in the shadow of the Civil War and ended with America on the verge of establishing itself as an industrial world power. Morrison R. Waite (1816-1888) led the Court through a...
The Clamor of Lawyers
The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory,...
Constitutional Ethos
Liberal Equality for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Judges, courts, and scholars in the United States agree that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but there is much disagreement about its meaning. So what seems to be incontestable truth is riddled with disagreements about every day questions of decision making on matter such as whether...
The Supreme Court in the Early Republic
The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
William R. Casto sheds a new light on America’s federal judiciary and the changing legal landscape with his detailed examination of the Supreme Court’s formative years. In a study that spans the period from the Court’s tentative beginnings through the appointment of its third chief justice,...
The Legal Foundations of Inequality
Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776–1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal with similar capacities and also that the community should become self-governing. Following the first constitutional...
Impersonations
Troubling the Person in Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of...
Courts and Trials
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
The judicial system occupies an important place in society, yet it has been one of the least studied of Canadian institutions. Traditionally, examination and criticism of the trial process have been left to lawyers and members of the legal profession. In this volume nine non-lawyers scrutinize its...
The Law Emprynted and Englysshed
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475-1642
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
What impact did the printing press – a new means of communicating the written word – have on early modern English lawyers? This book examines the way in which law printing developed in the period from 1475 up until 1642 and the start of the English Civil War. It offers a new perspective on the...
by Peter Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
A Guide to Criminal Law, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to the legal system and the area of criminal law as it affects people in a day-to-day capacity. The book is clear and concise and covers all the relevant areas of the criminal justice system and is designed for those people who either...
Jim Crow’s Last Stand
Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019
A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice,...
The Spaces of Justice
The Architecture of the Scottish Court
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
This book looks at the architecture of the courts in Scotland and the importance of these civic spaces. Given the importance of courts to the legal experience it starts by exploring why scholars have been so reticent in examining spaces in which the administration of justice takes place. It notes...
by Sir John Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
This volume covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual changes, which profoundly affected the law and its workings. It first considers constitutional developments, and addresses the question of whether there was a rule of law under king Henry VIII. In a period...
By Birth or Consent
Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor contracts or be hanged for arson or picking pockets....
The Declaration of Independence and God
Self-Evident Truths in American Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
'Self-evident truths' was a profound concept used by the drafters of the American Declaration of Independence to insist on their rights and freedom from oppressive government. How did this Enlightenment notion of self-evident human rights come to be used in this historic document and what is its true...