Legal History category: 1513 books
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed...
A Journey in Brazil
Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A Journey in Brazil: Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society is an investigative account of the vital career of Henry Washington Hilliard, who had a long and complicated relationship with slavery. A native Southerner, he was a former slave owner and Confederate soldier, but...
An Independent, Colonial Judiciary
A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
In 2012, the Bombay High Court celebrated the 150th year of its existence. As one of three high courts first set up in colonial India in 1862, it functioned as a court of original and appellate jurisdiction during the British Raj for over 80 years, occupying the topmost rung of the judicial hierarchy...
Canadian State Trials Volume I
Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
]State trials reveal much about a nation's insecurities and shed light on important themes in political, constitutional, and legal history. In Canada, perceived and real threats to the state have ranged from dissent, disaffection, and the emergence of threatening ideologies to insurrection, riot,...
Traveling the Beaten Trail
Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822–1825
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait’s Charges to Federal Grand Juries 1822–1825, a concise and essential addition to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, authors Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden capture the life, achievements, and legacy of federal...
Spacing Law and Politics
The Constitution and Representation of the Juridical
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Examining the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice, this book presents a genealogical account of the emergence and the development of the juridical. In an analysis that stretches from ancient Greece, through late antiquity and early modern and modern Europe, and on...
The Boundaries of Desire
A Century of Bad Laws, Good Sex, and Changing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
“A bracing look at the often-strange relationship between sexuality and the legal system over six tumultuous decades” (Booklist).
Society’s acceptance of sex and the grasp of its many variables are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless...
by James M. Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century. He demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped...
The Duty to Act
Tort Law, Power, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
A woman terrified by the threats of a jilted suitor is denied police protection. A workman collapses on the job and the employer is slow to help him. A bully in a bar begins to carry out threats of serious injury to a customer, after the bartender’s lackadaisical response. Springing from varied areas...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited well over 10,000 times in American judicial opinions alone. Prominent in recent reassessment of Blackstone...
by Gautam Bhatia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
We think of the Indian Constitution as a founding document, embodying a moment of profound transformation from being ruled to becoming a nation of free and equal citizenship. Yet the working of the Constitution over the last seven decades has often failed to fulfil that transformative promise. Not...
by Stefan Kirchner
Language: German
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Jura - Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtssoziologie, Rechtsgeschichte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The question if unborn children have a right to life is among the most hotly contested political issues in many countries. At the same time is the...
by Warren Swain
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The foundations for modern contract law were laid between 1670 and 1870. Rather than advancing a purely chronological account, this examination of the development of contract law doctrine in England during that time explores key themes in order to better understand the drivers of legal change. These...
by the late Bernard Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995
When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge stepped down as Associate Justice to become a state judge in South Carolina; John Jay resigned as Chief Justice to run for Governor of New York; and...