Legal History category: 1513 books
Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment
The Irony of Constitutional Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2001
Abraham Lincoln worried that the 'walls' of the constitution would ultimately be leveled by the 'silent artillery of time.' His fears materialized with the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, which, by eliminating federalism's structural protection, altered the very nature and meaning...
The Rescue of Joshua Glover
A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen...
After Roe
The Lost History of the Abortion Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the decade after the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion, advocates on both sides sought common ground. But as pro-abortion and anti-abortion positions hardened over time into pro-choice and pro-life, the myth was born that Roe v. Wade was a ruling on a woman’s right to choose. Mary Ziegler’s account offers a corrective.
by John Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This new account of the influence of Magna Carta on the development of English public law is based largely on unpublished manuscripts. The story was discontinuous. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the charter was practically a spent force. Late-medieval law lectures gave no hint of its...
The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation
A Review of My Life on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation recalls Davis' early upbringing and education on two Indian reservations. Davis also assesses the policies of the United States government regarding the status of Indians in society. Scalping is not too strong a term to describe the multiple injustices which...
by Laura Weinrib
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Laura Weinrib shows how a coalition of lawyers and activists made judicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights a defining feature of American democracy. Protection of civil liberties was a calculated bargain between liberals and conservatives to save the courts from New Deal attack and secure free speech for both labor radicals and businesses.
by Barak Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Japanese Army committed numerous atrocities during its pitiless campaigns in China from 1931 to 1945. Focusing on the trials of Japanese war criminals, Barak Kushner analyzes the political maneuvering and propagandizing in both China and Japan that would roil East Asian relations throughout the Cold War, with repercussions still felt today.
Repressive Jurisprudence in the Early American Republic
The First Amendment and the Legacy of English Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This volume seeks to explain how American society, which had been capable of noble aspirations such as those in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, was capable of adopting one of the most widely deplored statutes of our history, the Sedition Act of 1798. It examines how the political...
'Vom faulen Holze lebend'?! - 'Remapping' the 'jungle' with Amo, Latino, Levinas et al.?
An attempt against forgetting and 'white'-washing, sad, racist '(a)e(sthe)tic(al)' texts of so called German 'prime fathers' et al.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Document from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, University of Vienna (Institut für Rechtsphilosophie, Religions- und Kulturrecht), course: What could universities 'learn' from Prof Dr Anton Wilhelm Amo?, language: English, abstract: Who was Anton Wilhelm...
The Smart Culture
Society, Intelligence, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
What exactly is intelligence? Is it social achievement? Professional success? Is it common sense? Or the number on an IQ test?
Interweaving engaging narratives with dramatic case studies, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., has written a history of intelligence that will forever change the way we think about who...
Unequal Justice
Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1977
Auerbach here focuses on the elite nature of the profession, examining its emphasis on serving business interests and its attempts to exclude participation by minorities.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume is the first of four that will provide some of the most significant, English-language articles on the historical development of the police institution. The articles included in this volume are broadly of two kinds. The first introduce some of the theoretical outlines that have been suggested...
Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800
Under rule of law
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This bookrevisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London – from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics.
by Timothy Verhoeven
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their diverse ranks were religious skeptics,...