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by David J. Bederman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
A central puzzle in jurisprudence has been the role of custom in law. Custom is simply the practices and usages of distinctive communities. But are such customs legally binding? Can custom be law, even before it is recognized by authoritative legislation or precedent? And, assuming that custom is...
by Robert W. Shaffern
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This concise intellectual history of the law offers an accessible introduction to the ideas and contexts of law from ancient Babylon to eighteenth-century Europe. Robert W. Shaffern examines a rich array of sources to illuminate ideas about law and justice in Western civilization. He identifies four...
by Ray Eichenberger
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
God's laws are the roots of American law! In this book, a Christian lawyer analyzes the foundations of American law as the law of the Bible, and demonstrates how far the modern American legal system has strayed from its original purposes. This work is a hard-hitting tour de force beginning with...
Weak Constitutionalism
Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional regimes....
Devising, Dying and Dispute
Probate Litigation in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights. For only those who owned property were considered to have a vested interest in the maintenance of law, order and social harmony. As such, establishing the ownership of 'things' was a constant concern for all people, and nowhere...
The INS on the Line
Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different. Here, they confronted a set of political, social, and environmental obstacles that prevented them from replicating their achievements on Angel Island...
Searching for Subversives
The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions. Several thousand aliens and a few U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings, and hundreds were interned. Shedding new light on an injustice...
by Kevin Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This collection of Kevin’s blog posts for the Colorado Bar Association is “for anyone, lawyer or not, who wants to create or at least embrace change in their workplaces and personal lives. And not just change, but transformation.” Written with humor, empathy, insight, and perspective not just...
Making Habeas Work
A Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A reconsideration of the writ of habeas corpus casts new light on a range of current issues
Habeas corpus, the storied Great Writ of Liberty, is a judicial order that requires government officials to produce a prisoner in court, persuade an independent judge of the correctness of their claimed...
Canadian State Trials Volume I
Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
]State trials reveal much about a nation's insecurities and shed light on important themes in political, constitutional, and legal history. In Canada, perceived and real threats to the state have ranged from dissent, disaffection, and the emergence of threatening ideologies to insurrection, riot,...
by James O’Mahony
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The study of law can be an arduous and burdensome endeavour. Students can be overwhelmed by the unrelenting volume and complexity of legal texts. This can result in students failing to adequately understand the basic principles of their relevant study areas.
Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision...
Conducting Your Own Court Case
An Emerald Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This revised edition of Conducting Your Own Court Case by Helen Little, covers all aspects of preparing and going to court without the use of a solicitor. The various courts and procedures are covered in depth. The book is comprehensive and clear, dealing with all the key areas of preparing and conducting...
From Recognition to Reconciliation
Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.” Hailed at the time as a watershed moment in the legal and political relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies...
Equal Citizenship, Civil Rights, and the Constitution
The Original Sense of the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution. Designed to be a central guarantor of civil rights and civil liberties following Reconstruction, this clause could have been at the...