Legal History category: 1513 books
Unfit for Democracy
The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America’s...
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law.
Saving the Soul of Georgia
Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia’s chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine...
Courtroom Avenger
The Challenges and Triumphs of Robert Habush
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
This is a profile of Robert Habush, a prolific and esteemed trial lawyer based in Milwaukee. He's a lawyer whose is recognized by his peers as a lawyer who is always fighting for the little guy against the big pocket. Each chapter of this compelling book covers a significant trial in his career, and...
by Marylynn Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture...
The Dignity of Commerce
Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transaction in the way that both parties expect. But this...
This Is Not Civil Rights
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with Americans...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Featured articles in this Feb. 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Amanda Tyler, on the core meaning of the Suspension Clause, and Kenneth Mack, reviewing Tomiko Brown-Nagin's recent book on the grass roots origins of the civil rights movement. Also, several scholars contribute to a tribute...
In Search of the Ethical Lawyer
Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public? In this book,...
Family Law
Volume 1: Family Laws and Constitutional Claims
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Family law in India has a complex legal structure where different religious communities are guided by their own personal laws, each of which historically evolved under various social, religious, political, and legal influences. In two comprehensive and lucid volumes, Flavia Agnes, a leading activist...
Coercion and Responsibility in Islam
A Study in Ethics and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action. This is done by assessing four ethical problems: whether the absence...
Speak Now
Marriage Equality on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
**A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that stands as the most potent argument for marriage equality
*Speak Now *tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex...
Meeting the Enemy
American Exceptionalism and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since its founding, the United States has defined itself as the supreme protector of freedom throughout the world, pointing to its Constitution as the model of law to ensure democracy at home and to protect human rights internationally. Although the United States has consistently emphasized the importance...
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of migration and dispossession. The...