Legal History category: 1513 books
The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers
An Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Historians of the English legal profession have written comparatively little about the lawyers who served in the courts of the Church. This volume fills a gap; it investigates the law by which they were governed and discusses their careers in legal practice. Using sources drawn from the Roman and...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1933 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about staggering depopulation, loss of land, and cultural,...
Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious
Law, Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Sexual desire, and the possible dangers associated with its more extreme manifestations, provokes strong, albeit often contradictory reactions. Such reactions are a well-known stimulant of creative, juridical and scholarly activity, and the texts of law, literature and academic criticism respond...
Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932–1938
National, Commonwealth, and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The first of two volumes, this book examines constitutionalism in Ireland in the 1930s. Donal K. Coffey places the document and its drafters in the context of a turbulent decade for the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and Europe. He considers a series of key issues leading up to its drafting, including...
Latinos and American Law
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
To achieve justice and equal protection under the law, Latinos have turned to the U.S. court system to assert and defend their rights. Some of these cases have reached the United States Supreme Court, whose rulings over more than a century have both expanded and restricted the legal rights of Latinos,...
The Digest of Roman Law
Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.
Fragile Settlements
Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of trans-colonial history, Indigenous Studies, and the socio-legal history of the British Empire.
A Short History of European Law
The Last Two and a Half Millennia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances and reveals the law’s fragile malleability.
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...
Ballot Battles
The History of Disputed Elections in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The essays in United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836–1960—one each for a judge and his decisions—come together to form a chronological history of the Arkansas judicial system as it grew from its beginnings in a frontier state to a modern institution.
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by Lackland H. Bloom, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
"Great cases like hard cases make bad law" declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of their national importance,...
by Paul Vinogradoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Within the whole range of history there is no more momentous and puzzling problem than that connected with the fate of Roman Law after the downfall of the Roman State. How is it that a system shaped to meet certain historical conditions not only survived those conditions, hut has retained its vitality...