Legal History category: 1513 books
by Pedro Malodorus Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, The University of Texas at El Paso, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the legal impossibility that exists when Law Enforcement introduces evidence of a violation of law. Where Law enforcement creates...
by Deborah A. Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The First Seminole War shaped how the United States demarcated its spatial and legal boundaries. Rooted in exceptionalism, manifest destiny, and racism, the legal framework that emerged from Andrew Jackson’s invasion of Florida laid the groundwork for the Monroe Doctrine, the Dred Scott decision, and westward expansion, as Deborah Rosen shows.
The Dual Penal State
The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This book addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Penal regimes in these states operate...
Speaking of Language and Law
Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers...
The Jurisprudence of Emergency
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
The Jurisprudence of Emergency examines British rule in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing tensions between the ideology of liberty and government by law used to justify the colonizing power's insistence on a regime of conquest. Nasser Hussain argues that the interaction...
All for Civil Rights
African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted...
Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives
The Ideology of a Humanitarian Treaty, 1949-1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application. Featuring 436 documents from thirteen repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom,...
Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives
The Politics of International Humanitarian Law, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application. Featuring 436 documents from thirteen repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom,...
Evidence and the Archive
Ethics, Aesthetics and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This collection explores the stakes, risks and opportunities invoked in opening and exploring law’s archive and re-examining law’s evidence. It draws together work exploring how evidence is used or mis-used during the legal process, and re-used after the law’s work has concluded by engaging...
Dirt for Art's Sake
Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to "Lolita"
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated...
Payback
The Case for Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized...
The Court of Appeal for Ontario
Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national...
by Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.
The 1970s was a...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Perhaps no one has keener insight into human nature than the small-town trial lawyer. All but lost in an era of corporate law firms and specialized practice, this charismatic figure was once at the political center of a community and was the holder of its many secrets. A small town attorney's only...