Legal History category: 1513 books
by Steve Luxenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.
Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with “separate but equal,” created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet...
Court That Tamed the West, The
From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
From the gold rush to the Internet boom, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has played a major role in how business is done and life is lived on the Pacific Coast. When California was first admitted to the Union, pioneers were busy prospecting for new fortunes, building...
Moral Reconstruction
Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force...
by Catherine L. Fisk
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Professional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but they seldom own their writing. Catherine Fisk traces the history of labor relations that defined authorship in film, TV, and advertising in the mid-twentieth century, showing why strikingly different norms of attribution emerged in these overlapping industries.
Gunboat Justice Volume 2
British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (18421943)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, “extraterritoriality”. Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and,...
Law, Debt, and Merchant Power
The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century.
In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, JamesMuir offers...
Gunboat Justice Volume 1
British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (18421943)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, "extraterritoriality." Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries...
The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock
Judicial Independence and Civic Populism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case...
A Well-Regulated Militia
The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy,...
by Frank Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Can Money, power and laws change the way man may live his life because he has the ability to perceive what is right or wrong for himself base on his perception of what he may see or hear? Can America, a nation built on the principals of freedom and justice for all, collapse because the people feel their...
Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers
Lessons from Life Outside the Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
It has long been held that humans need government to impose social order on a chaotic, dangerous world. How, then, did early humans survive on the Serengeti Plain, surrounded by faster, stronger, and bigger predators in a harsh and forbidding environment? Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers examines an...
by Betty Eakle Dobkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The Spanish element in Texas water law is a matter of utmost importance to many landholders whose livelihood is dependent on securing water for irrigation and to many communities particularly concerned about water supply. Titles to some 280,000 acres of Texas land originated in grants made by the Crown...
by Arthur Koestler, Edmond Cahn, Sydney Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital punishment, inspired by its author’s own time in the shadow of a firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to death. He was freed, but only after months...
Gunboat Justice Volume 3
British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (18421943)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, “extraterritoriality”. Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and,...