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Signposts
New Directions in Southern Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more...
English Legal History and its Sources
Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
This volume honours the work and writings of Professor Sir John Baker over the past fifty years, presenting a collection of essays by leading scholars on topics relating to the sources of English legal history, the study of which Sir John has so much advanced. The essays range from the twelfth century...
Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
The 1805 New York foxhunting case Pierson v. Post has long been used in American property law classrooms to introduce law students to the concept of first possession by asking how one establishes possession of a wild animal. In this book, Professor Angela Fernandez retells the history of the famous...
Justice in a New World
Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World
As British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought...
Called by Stories
Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Distinguished legal scholar and Presbyterian minister Milner S. Ball examines great sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. Scholars and laypersons alike typically think of the law as a discipline dominated...
by Robert James Allison
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Frank Burrows is a two-bit, small-town lawyer in anybody's book, including his own, and now he finds himself center stage in a case involving murder, arson, and computer crimes. This time, however, he isn't representing an accused, he is the accused. A state fire marshal investigator wants him for...
Novel Judgements
Legal Theory as Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel judgements departs from ‘socio-legal’ studies of law and literature, often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes. This texts ‘theoretical turn’...
The Law of the Land
The Evolution of Our Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
National Book Award Finalist: “A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman” (The New Yorker).
What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America’s legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment?...
Colour-Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1999
Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal...
The Ecology of Law
Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
WINNER OF THE 2015 IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD IN POLITICS/CURRENT EVENTS
**The Ecology of Law
Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei argue that at the root of many of the environmental, economic, and social crises we face today is a legal system based on an obsolete worldview. Capra, a bestselling...
by E. Allan Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction...
Catalonia's Advocates
Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political...
American Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in American society; and how the social context affects the living law of the United States. It covers the institutions of law creation and application, law...
by Alison Plus
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
You must write a legal case brief, either for school or for internal use in a law firm or other legal setting. However, even though you have seen other case briefs, you are not sure how to brief a case. Maybe you have never written a brief like this before and do not know what it should look like....