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The Futility of Law and Development
China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience. Jedidiah Kroncke uses the Founders' serious engagement with, and often admiration...
The Fiercest Debate
Cecil A Wright, the Benchers, and Legal Education in Ontario 1923-1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
From its earliest days the Law Society of Upper Canada adhered to the traditions of English legal practice and education. In the 1930s and 1940s, however, some of the most cherished of those traditions were challenged in a bitter debate about the nature of legal education in Ontario. This book tells...
Legal Interpretation
Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. But what sorts of questions must one seek to answer in interpreting law and what approach should one take...
by Lisa Webley
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Legal Writing guides students comprehensively through this vital legal skill and addresses a range of assessment methods from exam questions to final essays and problem answers. It considers how to deconstruct essay and problem questions and how to conduct and apply legal research to answer set questions.
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by Alison Plus
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
You must write an internal legal memo, either for school or for internal use in a law firm or other legal practice setting. This booklet can help you by showing you the complete process of writing an internal legal memo. This practical, systematic method will start with a basic discussion of the purpose...
Private Lawyers and the Public Interest
The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
This collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American...
Contract and Consent
Representation and the Jury in Anglo-American Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J. R. Pole posits that legal history has become highly specialized, while mainstream political and social historians frequently ignore cases that figure prominently in the legal literature. Pole makes a start at remedying the situation with a series...
Welfare's Forgotten Past
A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not...
The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession
Canonists, Civilians, and Courts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities...
by Professor Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M. Friedman offers a monumental history of American law in the twentieth century.
The first general history of its kind, American Law in the Twentieth Century describesthe explosion of law over the past...
by Terri LeClercq
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
For ten years, Terri LeClercq's "Legal Writing" column in the Texas Bar Journal has helped polish the prose of lawyers and law students, judges and clerks, paralegals, writing instructors, and legal secretaries. This book collects all the advice she has given in her columns into one authoritative guide...
by Jeffrey Lipshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The concept of learning to ‘think like a lawyer’ is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book, Jeffrey Lipshaw provides a critique of the traditional views of ‘thinking like a lawyer’ or ‘pure lawyering’ aimed at lawyers, law professors, and...
by Jay M. Feinman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The best-selling first edition of Law 101 provided readers with a vividly written and indispensable portrait of our nation's legal system. Now, in this revised edition, Jay M. Feinman offers an updated survey of American law, spiced with new anecdotes and cases, and incorporating fresh material...
From Chaos to Continuity
The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712–1862
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Historians have long viewed Louisiana as an anomaly in the American judicial system-an eccentric appendage at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The diverse Creole culture and civilian heritage of the state's legal system have led many scholars to conclude that it is an anachronism in American law...