Legal History category: 1513 books
For God, King, and People
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within...
by Keally McBride
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines...
Liberty Intact
Human Rights in English Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950? These questions and...
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book II: Of the Rights of Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of English law and Blackstone's thought through the...
by Carlos A. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Carlos A. Ball argues that as progressives fight the First Amendment claims of religious conservatives and other LGBT opponents, they should take care not to forget the crucial role the First Amendment played in the early decades of the movement, and not to erode the safeguards of liberty that allowed LGBT rights to exist in the first place.
Summary and Analysis of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Based on the Book by Jeffrey Toobin
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of American Heiress tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jeffrey Toobin’s book.
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Magistrates, Police, and People
Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception. Many historians have suggested that, between the Conquest and the Rebellions (1760s-1830s), Quebec's 'Canadien' inhabitants both boycotted and were excluded from the British...
Slavery, Law, and Politics
The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1981
This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing a masterful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War.
Of Courtiers and Kings
More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.
In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look...
by Paul Moke
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Earl Warren and the Struggle**for Justice explores the remarkable life of one of the leading public figures and jurists of twentieth century America. Based on newly available source materials, it traces Warren’s progressive vision of government from its origins in the fight against urban corruption...
Press and Speech Under Assault
The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the Sedition Act of 1798 violated those freedoms. This book discusses the twelve Supreme Court justices before John Marshall,...
Sine Die
A Guide to the Washington State Legislative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This 1997 edition of Sine Die is a completely new book. Since the first edition of Sine Die was published in 1987, there have been dramatic changes in the Washington State Legislature and in state politics. Limits have been placed on campaign contributions and reporting requirements are expanded;...
L'Intendant de Rouen
Juge du contentieux fiscal au XVIIIe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Les intendants rouennais n'ont guère, jusqu’à présent, retenu l’attention. Il en est de même du contentieux fiscal dévolu aux commissaires départis dans les généralités situées en pays d’élections. À ce double titre, l’activité de l’intendant de Rouen, juge du contentieux fiscal...
America’s Two Constitutions
A Study of the Treatment of Dissenters in Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
America’s Two Constitutions explores the history of the treatment of dissenters in time of war, beginning with the treatment of Tories during the Revolution, followed by description and analysis of the Lincoln administration’s treatment of disloyal persons during the Civil War, President Wilson’s...