Legal History category: 1513 books
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Greatest Closing Arguments Protecting Civil Libertie
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The second volume in a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal history
Every day, Americans enjoy the freedom to decide what we do with our property, our bodies, our speech, and our votes. However, the rights to these freedoms have not always been guaranteed. Our civil...
by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, Christopher H. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's...
On the Battlefield of Merit
Harvard Law School, the First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Harvard Law School pioneered educational ideas, including professional legal education within a university, Socratic questioning and case analysis, and the admission and training of students based on academic merit. On the Battlefield of Merit offers a candid account of a unique legal institution during its first century of influence.
The Jurisprudence of Emergency
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Ever-more-frequent calls for the establishment of a rule of law in the developing world have been oddly paralleled by the increasing use of "exceptional" measures to deal with political crises. To untangle this apparent contradiction, The Jurisprudence of Emergency analyzes the historical...
The Punitive Imagination
Law, Justice, and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes...
Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries
A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing influence of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the work's original publication in the 1760s down to the present. Contributions by cultural and literary scholars, and intellectual and legal historians trace the...
Laws of Early Iceland
Gragas I
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
by Goodwin Liu ; Pamela S. Karlan
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's...
Taming Alabama
Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to...
Litigating Across the Color Line
Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
As a result of the violence, segregation, and disfranchisement that occurred throughout the South in the decades after Reconstruction, it has generally been assumed that African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South litigated few civil cases and faced widespread inequality in the suits they did...
Laws of Image
Privacy and Publicity in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to feel...
Imperial Justice
Africans in Empire's Court
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses...
Colonial Justice
Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In 1791 when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this new study of early...
Gender and the Jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo...