Legal History category: 1513 books
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were...
The Making of the Modern Chinese State
Cement, Legal Personality and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances...
Law and the Politics of Memory
Confronting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Law and the Politics of Memory: Confronting the Past examines law’s role as a tool of memory politics in the efforts of contemporary societies to work through the traumas of their past. Using the examples of French colonialism and Vichy, as well as addressing the politics of memory surrounding...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and hybridization, their history, their application...
The Laws of Slavery in Texas
Historical Documents and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, a part of the United States, and a Confederate state. This unusual legal heritage sets Texas...
Uncivil Warriors
The Lawyers' Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its...
Honorary Protestants
The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as “honorary...
The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England
Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues arising from these events are well-known, little is known about how the British legal process coped with...
Legalism
Community and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
'Community' and 'justice' recur in anthropological, historical, and legal scholarship, yet as concepts they are notoriously slippery. Historians and lawyers look to anthropologists as 'community specialists', but anthropologists often avoid the concept through circumlocution: although much used (and...
by Dr Andrew Lyall
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies...
Liberalizing Lynching
Building a New Racialized State
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In spite of America's identity as a liberal democracy, the vile act of lynching happened frequently in the Southern United States over the course of the nation's history. Indeed, lynchings were very public events, and were even advertised in newspapers, begging the question of how such a brazen disregard...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The essays look at the consequences that legal practice has on the lives of its practitioners as well as on the individual legal subject and on the shape of shared identities. These essays challenge liberal and communitarian notions of what it means to live the law.
In the first of the essays,...
States of Union
Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Silver Gavel Award Finalist
In two canonical decisions of the 1920s—Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters—the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution's protective umbrella. Since then, proponents...
World War I Law and Lawyers
Issues, Cases, and Characters
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The global story of the legal side of WWI and its legacy is now told in this new book. Eighty legal issues are identified from this war, ranging from the ancient rights of kings to deploying modern technology like airplanes and poison gases, from mutiny to blockade, from supplying and funding wars...