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How to Get the Best Out of Your Lawyer
A Guide to Engaging the Services of Legal Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Going to court can be a stressful experience. The world in which it operates can appear mysterious to those on the outside. Solicitors and barristers are our guides to the legal system, but how do you know if you are getting the best service available?
Written by someone who knows how the...
by Maria Isabel Medina
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Maria Isabel Medina's chronicle of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law examines the prominent Jesuit institution across its hundred-year history, from its founding in 1914 through the first decade of the twenty-first century. With a mission to make the legal profession attainable to Catholics,...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history...
Sunflower Justice
A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court’s arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book presents a broad overview of succession law, encompassing aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history. It examines society and legal practice in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present from both a legal and a sociological perspective. The contributing authors investigate...
Ruling before the Law
The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice....
Law and Legal Process
Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
This collection of papers from the Twentieth British Legal History Conference explores the relationship between substantive law and the way in which it actually worked. Instead of looking at what the courts said they were doing, it is concerned more with the reality of what was happening. To that...
Law, Life, and Lore
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Law is best interpreted in the context of the traditions and cultures that have shaped its development, implementation, and acceptance. However, these can never be assessed truly objectively: individual interpreters of legal theory need to reflect on how their own experiences create the framework...
The Supreme Court and Legal Change
Abortion and the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs,...
Latin American Law
A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Private law touches every aspect of people's daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private property, marriage and family relations, contracts, employment, and business dealings—and the court records and legal documents produced under private law are a rich source of information for anyone researching...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage. The History of Indiana Law traces this history through a series of expert articles by identifying the themes that mark the state’s legal...
The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an "extremely valuable book." Library Journal praised it as "brilliant"...
by John Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present and, combined with Baker and Milsom's...
by Alison Plus
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
You must write a demand letter regarding a legal problem, either for school, for use in legal practice, or as a private citizen preparing for a possible small claims court filing. This booklet can help you by showing you the complete process of writing demand letter. This practical, systematic method...