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by R. Kent Newmyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
John Marshall (1755--1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government. His great opinions...
Rehumanizing Law
A Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes’s literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thought: “superfluity” and the “poetics of transition,”...
Miles Lord
The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” He cut a wide swath through...
by John M. Zane
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Written for the layman as well as the attorney, The Story of Law is the only complete outline history of the law ever published. “It is,” too, noted journalist William Allen White of the original edition, “the sort of book that any lawyer could take home and give to his children in their teens...
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts
Essex County, 1629-1692
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced religion...
by Prof Julia J.A. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
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The Justice of Constantine
Law, Communication, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
As the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great has long interested those studying the establishment of Christianity. But Constantine is also notable for his ability to control a sprawling empire and effect major changes. The Justice of Constantineexamines Constantine's judicial and...
The Natural Law
A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1998
Originally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as represented in the writings of Cicero, Aquinas, and Hooker and the revolutionary doctrines of natural rights espoused by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
Heinrich...
by the late Bernard Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995
When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge stepped down as Associate Justice to become a state judge in South Carolina; John Jay resigned as Chief Justice to run for Governor of New York; and...
Reaching the Bar
Stories of Women at All Stages of Their Law Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Women account for 30% of the 1.14 million attorneys currently practicing in the U.S., and in 2007, 48% of all juris doctor degrees were awarded to women. Despite the growing appearance of women at the bar, the law is still a profession dominated by older white men. While some of the challenges an...
Madeleine's Children
Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between...
Romancing Justice
Books 1-3
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Romancing Justice, the three-book series. Two ordinary people. One extraordinary love.
Incredulity (Book 1)
A romantic cowboy, A sunset kiss. Everything is perfect until he's charged with murder.
Callie Fletcher just wanted to sit on the terrace of her favorite hot spot and watch...
Government by Judiciary
The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
It is Berger’s theory that the United States Supreme Court has embarked on “a continuing revision of the Constitution, under the guise of interpretation,” thereby subverting America’s democratic institutions and wreaking havoc upon Americans’ social and political lives.
Raoul Berger...