Legal History category: 1513 books
Crusader for Justice
Federal Judge Damon J. Keith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader...
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
Statesman of the Old Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Down with Traitors
Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931�1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, �traitors to the Han Chinese�). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating...
America on Trial
Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2004
The renowned attorney and bestselling author reveals how notable trials throughout our history have helped to shape our nation. Offering insights into the human condition, these trials serve as a historical document, chronicling the struggles and passions of their time.
Pillars of Justice
Lawyers and the Liberal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and principles they served.
Sir John Beverley Robinson
Bone and Sinew of the Compact
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.
The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its...
Obscenity Rules
Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
For some, he was "America's leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American...
Ducktown Smoke
The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red...
by Jeffrey Toobin
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In January of 1987 Jeffrey Toobin is fresh out of Harvard Law School, and appointed the youngest lawyer on Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's team to investigate and try the leading figure in the Iran-Contra affair--Oliver North. For twenty-eight thrilling months, Toobin served on Walsh's staff and...