Legal History category: 1513 books
Authors in Court
Scenes from the Theater of Copyright
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Through a series of vivid case studies, Authors in Court charts the 300-year-long dance between authorship and copyright that has shaped each institution’s response to changing social norms of identity, privacy, and celebrity. “A literary historian by training, Rose is completely at home in the...
by Leanna Bablitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
What would you see if you attended a trial in a courtroom in the early Roman empire? What was the behaviour of litigants, advocates, judges and audience?
It was customary for Roman individuals out of general interest to attend the various courts held in public places in the city centre and...
University, Court, and Slave
Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of people-and profited from their labor while many slaves endured physical abuse on campuses. As Alfred L. Brophy shows,...
by Jonathan Ozanne
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
How much do you know about one of the foundational documents of constitutional government? Take The Magna Carta Trivia Challenge and find out. Featuring more than 60 multiple choice questions (and answers) about the Magna Carta and its long shadow on British and world history. The book is a great way...
by Lawrence Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
In this newly revised work, Lawrence Friedman presents a comprehensive and accessible survey of New Hampshire constitutional history and constitutional law. One of the oldest written constitutions in the United States, the New Hampshire Constitution pre-dates the federal constitution and, with the...
Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas
A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Whether in the form of Christmas trees in town squares or prayer in school, fierce disputes over the separation of church and state have long bedeviled this country. Both decried and celebrated, this principle is considered by many, for right or wrong, a defining aspect of American national identity.
Nearly...
by Ian Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought—Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey. Stretching from the French Revolution to the death of...
The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits
The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without...
Maconochie's Gentlemen
The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements...
by Ilona Schelleová, Karel Schelle
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Document from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, , language: English, abstract: Die Ausübung der Gerichtsbarkeit gehörte immer zu den bedeutendsten Funktionen des Staates. Die Hauptaufgabe der Gerichte ist die Gewährung des Rechtsschutzes auf gesetzliche...
Echo of Its Time
The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Throughout its existence the Federal District Court of Nebraska has echoed the dynamics of its time, reflecting the concerns, interests, and passions of the people who have made this state their home. Echo of Its Time explores the court’s development, from its inception in 1867 through 1933,...
Without Precedent
Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more...
Justice for All
Earl Warren and the Nation He Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history.
In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Recent Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of corporations in American democracy. Bringing together scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides essential grounding for today’s policy debates.