Legal History category: 1513 books
by Frederic R. Kellogg
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
With Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic, Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) to assess his contribution to both legal logic and general logical theory. Through discussions with his mentor Chauncey Wright...
by Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi al-Maliki
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, particularly from the understudied Mamluk era. In this...
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935) is ingrained in American history as one of the country's foremost jurists. Distinguished for his learning, judgment, humor, and eloquence, he served as justice of the United States Supreme Court for four decades. Throughout his career, Holmes forged new concepts...
Woman Lawyer
The Trials of Clara Foltz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition to women lawyers as she tried cases in front of...
Canadian State Trials, Volume II
Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
This second volume of the Canadian State Trials series focuses on the largest state security crisis in 19th century Canada: the rebellions of 1837-1838 and associated patriot invasions in Upper and Lower Canada (Ontario and Québec). Historians have long debated the causes and implications of the...
Multidimensional Origins of Biolaw and Bioethics and their Impact on Conceptions of Human Rights and Human Dignity
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, , language: English, abstract: Biolaw is a new legal discipline. Still closely related to the fundamentals on which law is built, such as philosophy, biolaw has evolved into a truly legal discipline....
Rights Delayed
The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress as the forces that diminished the New Deal state, eliminated...
Fascism and Criminal Law
History, Theory, Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Fascism was one of the twentieth century's principal political forces, and one of the most violent and problematic. Brutal, repressive and in some cases totalitarian, the fascist and authoritarian regimes of the early twentieth century, in Europe and beyond, sought to create revolutionary new orders...
Father, Son, and Constitution
How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Langum Prize, Honorable Mention
When Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned his seat on the bench at the youthful age of 67 after 18 years, his decision was unique in the annals of Court history: he was leaving so that his son Ramsey, just nominated as Attorney General, could assume the job...
American Privacy
The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
**As America reacts to Edward Snowden’s leaks about NSA surveillance, American Privacy offers a timely look at our national experience with the right to privacy. **
“The history of America is the history of the right to privacy,” writes Frederick S. Lane in this vivid and penetrating...
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to...
Money in the Western Legal Tradition
Middle Ages to Bretton Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of Western monetary law, covering the civil law and Anglo-American...
by Henry Howland
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
A Brief look at the history of the practice of Law in New York to 1900.
Approaching the U.S. Constitution
Sacred Covenant or Plaything for Lawyers and Judges
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
By reminding readers that early Supreme Court justices refused to reduce the Constitution to a mere legal document, Approaching the U.S. Constitution provides a definitive response to Reading Law by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner. Turning to the vision of Alexander Hamilton found in Federalists No....