Legal History category: 1513 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
St. Augustine and Roman law are the two bridges from Athens and Jerusalem to the world of modern law. Augustine's almost eerily modern political realism was based upon his deep appreciation of human evil, arising from his insights into the human personality, the product of his reflections on his own...
The People’s Welfare
Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long...
The ius commune in England
Four Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
This study addresses the ius commune's relation to and influence on English law. Helmholz aims to fill in some of the gaps in scholarship on the common legal past of Western law, the history of the Roman and canon laws, the history of the ecclesiastical courts, parallels between the ius commune and English common law, and English church history.
Manifest Destinies, Second Edition
The Making of the Mexican American Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States
Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans—the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The...
by Ellen R. Feingold
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book is the first study of the development and decolonization of a British colonial high court in Africa. It traces the history of the High Court of Tanzania from its establishment in 1920 to the end of its institutional process of decolonization in 1971. This process involved disentangling the...
The Pirate Myth
Genealogies of an Imperial Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous. It haunts the imagination of international legal scholars, diplomats and statesmen involved in the war on terror. It returns in the headlines of international newspapers as an untimely ‘security threat’. It materializes on the most provincial...
Crossing Hitler:The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription...
by Anthony Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.
by Michael J. Graetz, Linda Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not moderate or transitional, but conservative—and it shaped today’s constitutional landscape. It is an “important book…a powerful corrective to the standard narrative of the Burger Court” (The New York Times Book Review).
When...
Jane Crow
The Life of Pauli Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant...
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...
Law of the Land
The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its...
Associations and Law
The Classical and Early Christian Stages
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
George Heiman has translated the discussion of classical and early Christian laws of association from the major works by Grotto Gierke, Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht. This work complements F.W. Maitland's translation of a later part under the title, The Political Theories of the Middle Ages, and...
Prohibition in Atlanta
Temperance, Tiger Kings & White Lightning
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
After the Civil War, state and national Prohibition galvanized in Atlanta the issues of classism, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. While many consider flappers and gangsters the iconic images of the era, in reality, it was marked with temperance zealotry, blind tigers and white lightning. Georgia's...