Legal History category: 1513 books
The Buffalo Creek Disaster
How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people...
The Second Amendment
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Widely acclaimed at the time of its publication, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.
At a time of increasing gun violence in America, Waldman’s book provoked a wide range of discussion. This book looks at history to provide some...
For the Thrill of It
Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended,...
Friede und Recht
Studien zur Genese des fruehmittelalterlichen Herrscher- und Tugendideals in der lateinischen Literatur der roemischen Antike und des fruehen Mittelalters
Language: German
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Friede und Recht – mit keinem anderen Begriffspaar lassen sich Rechtfertigung und Anspruch mittelalterlicher Herrschaft besser beschreiben. In frühmittelalterlichen Volksrechten (leges), Urkunden, Fürstenspiegeln oder der Landfriedensbewegung dient es regelmäßig als Legitimationsgrundlage und...
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Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Diese Edition bringt wichtige, bisher nicht edierte Quellen zum Aktiengesetz von 1884 und ergänzt damit die von Peter Hommelhoff und Werner Schubert 1985 herausgegebene Materialiensammlung zum Aktiengesetz von 1884. Sie enthält den bisher nicht gedruckten Teil des Gutachtens des Reichsoberhandelsgerichts...
Venire contra factum proprium
Herkunft und Grundlagen eines sprichwoertlichen Rechtsprinzips
Language: German
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Dieses Buch untersucht die Herkunft des Verbots von «venire contra factum proprium». Ausgehend von den mittelalterlichen «Brocardica» wird die Quellenbasis analysiert, auf welche der berühmte Satz vom verbotenen Selbstwiderspruch gestützt wurde. Die herangezogenen Quellen entstammen zum Großteil...
No Property in Man
Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited slavery’s legitimacy—a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.
The Majesty of the Law
Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this remarkable book, a national bestseller in hardcover, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history,...
American Inquisition
The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Little has previously been written about the faith of...
Packing the Court
The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme Court
For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In Packing the Court,...
The Invention of Party Politics
Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea...
Illinois Justice
The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and ’70s. In Illinois Justice, Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice’s aspirations to the US Supreme Court, but also...
by David Gardner Chardavoyne
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present.