Legal History category: 1513 books
The Second Amendment and Gun Control
Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The Second Amendment, by far the most controversial amendment to the US Constitution, will soon celebrate its 225th anniversary. Yet, despite the amount of ink spilled over this controversy, the debate continues on into the 21st century. Initially written with a view towards protecting the nascent...
Explicit and Authentic Acts
Amending the U.S. Constitution 1776-2015?With a New Afterword
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
**Bancroft Prize
Henry Adams Prize
Ohio History Association Book Prize**
In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments,...
by Robert B. Keiter
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
In The Wyoming State Constitution, Robert B. Keiter provides a comprehensive guide to Wyoming's colorful constitutional history. Featuring an outstanding analysis of the state's governing charter,the book includes an in-depth, section-by-section analysis of the entire constitution, detailing important...
The History of Law in Europe
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
The Last Battle of the Civil War
United States versus Lee, 1861-1883
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, one final, dramatic confrontation occurred between the Lee family and the United States government. In The Last Battle of the Civil War, Anthony J. Gaughan recounts the fascinating saga of United States v. Lee, known to history as the...
by Ignacio Carrillo Prieto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 21, 2014
La hermandad entre política y derecho en México es producto de la tradición que por ambos caminos proviene de nuestros orígenes culturales. El derecho dio a luz en su oportunidad el monumento jurídico que denominamos las Leyes de Indias y posteriormente engendró generaciones portentosas de juristas,...
The Jurists
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The book is an intellectual history of the work of Western jurists from ancient Rome to the present. It discusses the Roman jurists, the medieval civilians and canon lawyers, the late scholastics, the natural law schools of the 17th and 18th centuries, the positivism and conceptualism of the 19th...
Insurance in Elizabethan England
The London Code
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
English insurance came into being almost entirely during the Elizabethan period. However, the Great Fire of 1666 consumed most of London's mercantile document, and therefore little is known about early English insurance. Using new archival material, this study provides the first in-depth analysis...
Corporate Romanticism
Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments—the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action—undermined the basic assumption underpinning both...
Juridical Encounters
Maori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Maori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Maori and many settlers lived according to tikanga....
by Todd E. Pettys
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Iowa State Constitution provides the most comprehensive analysis of Iowa's constitutional history and the development of its individual provisions. Todd E. Pettys presents a completely revised second edition with an extensive overview of Iowa's constitutional historical origin and evolution, while...
Vagrant Nation
Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not only to maintain safety and order but also to enforce conventional standards of morality and propriety. A person could...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase "clear and present danger." Although the decision upheld the conviction of an individual...
Sorcerers' Apprentices
100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Law clerks have been a permanent fixture in the halls of the United States Supreme Court from its founding, but the relationship between clerks and their justices has generally been cloaked in secrecy. While the role of the justice is both public and formal, particularly in terms of the decisions...