Legal History category: 1513 books
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution
European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has long held unparalleled sway over questions of human rights violations across continental Europe, Britain, and beyond. Both its supporters and detractors accept the common view that the European human rights system was originally devised as a means of containing...
Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution
The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation's Founding Documents
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands. Bruce, and the others, had been asked to adopt a tribal constitution, but he was unhappy...
The New Zealand Legislative Council
A Study of the Establishment, Failure and Abolition of an Upper House
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The New Zealand upper house, the Legislative Council (which bore a marked resemblance to its Canadian counterpart the Federal Senate) was abolished in 1950 in an action which represents one of the most clear-cut examples of pragmatic politics in New Zealand history. It was abolished by the essentially...
by William D. Paden
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering...
The Goldmark Case
An American Libel Trial
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
In 1962 John Goldmark, cattle rancher, Harvard Law School graduate, and distinguished three-term state legislator for a lightly populated area in north central Washington, was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for reelection. He and his wife, Sally, had been accused of being communists by a small...
by Bettina Nehmer
Language: German
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Das Buch beleuchtet die Urteilspraxis bundesdeutscher Gerichte gegen Einsatzgruppenverbrecher. Um der statistischen Auswertung und Sachanalyse gerecht zu werden, untersuchte die Autorin sämtliche verhandelte Fälle, die in der zentralen Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltung Ludwigsburg archiviert worden...
by Maria Rosaria Ambrosino
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2016
La ricerca concerne tutti gli aspetti giuridicamente rilevanti inerenti al mondo dei gladiatori. Dopo una introduzione storica sull'origine e i significati sociali e religiosi dei giochi gladiatori, segue la revisione critica della dottrina e delle fonti riguardanti la status personale dei gladiatori,...
by Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Reinhard Stauber
Language: German
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Handbuch zur politischen Geschichte des Wiener Kongresses: Der 1814 einberufene Wiener Kongress sollte nach über zwanzig Jahren Krieg eine politische Neuordnung des Kontinents und damit eine Grundlage für ein stabiles Friedenssystem erarbeiten. Die Ergebnisse des Kongresses sicherten Europa in der...
Operation Greylord
The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America’s Biggest Corruption Bust
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the U.S. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments.And it was led...
by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation’s highest court.
As in prior editions, McCloskey’s original text remains unchanged. In his...
by Roy McMurtry
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution,...
by Zephyr Teachout
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.
The Odd Clauses
Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of shrews, wombats, and bat-eared foxes. Past the ever-popular monkey house and lion cages, Boston...
by Christopher Beauchamp
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Christopher Beauchamp debunks the myth of Alexander Graham Bell as the telephone’s sole inventor, exposing that story’s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell’s lawyers during fiercely contested battles for patent monopoly. The courts anointed Bell father of the telephone—likely the most consequential intellectual property right ever granted.