Legal History category: 1513 books
Undaunted Radical
The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
A leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourgée (1838--1905) served as the most articulate spokesman of the radical wing of the Republican party, and he continued to advocate for its egalitarian ideals long after Reconstruction...
Union and States’ Rights
A History and Interpretation of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 150 Years After Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The third book in the &LAW series addresses the perpetual issue of state sovereignty in the federal union-'states' rights.' From the 1770s, through the Confederate states' secession, and continuing until now, a central issue of governance is state power to object to, cancel, or be immune from...
by Evan J. Mandery
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history.
For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic....
Raw Life
Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials conducted in 1890s Muskoka by Magistrate James Boyer of Bracebridge. The charges and evidence show how raw life really was in Canada's frontier towns, with cases ranging from nostalgic and humorous to pitiable and deeply disturbing.
While...
Brown v. Board of Education
A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation...
Sir Robert Falconer
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Biblical scholar, social critic, and internationalist, Robert Alexander Falconer was also the foremost Canadian university leader of his generation, serving as president of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932. James Greenlee's biography chronicles his development as an academic leader and a public man.
Heart versus Head
Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head,...
Who Are the Criminals?
The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff...
by Roberta Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill Clinton
Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and...
Wives & Property
Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the episode she...
Appropriation and Invention of Tradition
The East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
This book, strongly grounded in primary sources, makes an important contribution to the intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It brings to light the complex interpenetration of diverse interests, opinions, and ideologies articulated by various social groups implicated in the process of colonization...
Steueramnestien, Selbstanzeige und die verfassungsrechtliche Bewertung von Straffreiheitsgesetzen
Eine Untersuchung anlaesslich des gescheiterten deutsch-schweizerischen Steuerabkommens
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Anlässlich des gescheiterten Steuerabkommens zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz untersucht Frederic Raue die historische Amnestiegesetzgebung in Deutschland sowie die Phänomene Gnade, Abolition, Selbstanzeige nach § 371 AO und Steueramnestien. Waren Amnestien zu Zeiten der Weimarer Republik noch...
by Robert L. Tsai
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Robert Tsai's history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exercised. It is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists.
Citizenship and Its Discontents
An Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This book considers how the civic ideals embodied in India’s constitution are undermined by exclusions based on social and economic inequalities, sometimes even by its own strategies of inclusion. Once seen by Westerners as a political anomaly, India today is the case study that no global discussion of democracy and citizenship can ignore.