Legal History category: 1513 books
by Linda Przybyszewski
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, "Our Constitution is color-blind." But in other judicial decisions--as well as in some areas of his life--Harlan's actions directly...
Reconsidering the environmental space of prisons - a step further towards criminal reform
a step further towards criminal reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: excellent (1), University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The present study presents, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the space of prisons by putting forward elements pertaining...
Reconsidering the Insular Cases
The Past and Future of the American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Over a century ago the United States Supreme Court decided the “Insular Cases,” which limited the applicability of constitutional rights in Puerto Rico and other overseas territories. Essays in Reconsidering the Insular Cases examine the history and legacy of these cases and explore possible solutions for the dilemmas they created.
Beginning at the End
Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
During the struggle for decolonization, Frantz Fanon argued that artists who mimicked European aestheticism were “beginning at the end,” skipping the inventive phase of youth for a decadence thought more typical of Europe’s declining empires. Robert Stilling takes up Fanon’s assertion to argue...
by Lauren Benton, Lisa Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford find the origins of international law in empires, especially in the British Empire’s sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and reorder the world. These attempts touched on all the issues of the early nineteenth century, from slavery to revolution, and changed the way we think about the empire’s legacy.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of basic human rights and freedoms from antiquity through today. These include radical notions of dignity and equality, religious freedom, liberty of conscience, limited government,...
by Marcel Yabili
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Voici 45 années d’analyses juridiques d’évènements privés et publics en RD Congo qui ont été analysés en droit et en temps réel. Les circonstances politiques et socio-économiques, très diverses ont donné lieu à des récits, notes, newsletters, blogs et publications juridiques. Ils...
Aggressive Nationalism
McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) has long been recognized to be one of the most significant decisions ever handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, many scholars have argued it is the greatest opinion handed down by the greatest Chief Justice, in which he declared the act creating the Second...
Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars
The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of innocence that outshone the facts in many...
Petty Justice
Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Until the late nineteenth-century, the most common form of local government in rural England and the British Empire was administration by amateur justices of the peace: the sessions system. Petty Justice uses an unusually well-documented example of the colonial sessions system in Loyalist New Brunswick...
Atrocity Speech Law
Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The law governing the relationship between speech and core international crimes a key component in atrocity prevention is broken. Incitement to genocide has not been adequately defined. The law on hate speech as persecution is split between the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and...
The Heart of the Constitution
How the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights. Even more surprising, when people finally started...
Conquest by Law
How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
In 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a Supreme Court decision of monumental importance in defining the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the English-speaking world. At the heart of the decision for Johnson v. M'Intosh was a "discovery doctrine" that gave rights of ownership to the...
Recounting the Anthrax Attacks
Terror, the Amerithrax Task Force, and the Evolution of Forensics in the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
It was September 18, 2001, just seven days after al-Qaeda hijackers destroyed the Twin Towers. In the early morning darkness, a lone figure dropped several letters into a mailbox. Seventeen days later a Florida journalist died of inhalational anthrax. The death from the rare disease made world news....