Legal History category: 1513 books
The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an "extremely valuable book." Library Journal praised it as "brilliant"...
by Ian Benitez
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: 1.75, , course: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, language: English, abstract: This paper challenges the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) claims of legal indeterminacy. It shall use a legal formalist...
by Theodore F. T. Plucknett
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
As always during its long history, English common law, upon which American law is based, has had to defend itself against the challenge of civil law’s clarity and traditions. That challenge to our common-law heritage remains today. To that end, Liberty Fund now makes available a clear and candid...
Under Cover of Science
American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence. In this authoritative intellectual history, James R. Hackney Jr. situates the modern law and economics movement within the trajectory of American...
The Judicial House of Lords
1876-2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
The House of Lords served as the highest court in the UK for over 130 years. In 2009 the new UK Supreme Court took over its judicial functions, closing the doors on one of the most influential legal institutions in the world, and a major chapter in the history of the UK legal system. This volume gathers...
Writing the Legal Record
Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Any student of American history knows of Washington, Jefferson, and the other statesmen who penned the documents that form the legal foundations of our nation, but many other great minds contributed to the development of the young republic's judicial system -- figures such as William Littell, Ben...
Sunflower Justice
A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court’s arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents...
Law Books in Action
Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled...
Beyond the Borders of the Law
Critical Legal Histories of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
In the American imagination “the West” denotes a border—between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer—and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, jurisdictions,...
by John B. Nann, Morris L. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultural history often encounter legal issues that affect...
Signposts
New Directions in Southern Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more...
Catalonia's Advocates
Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political...
The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession
Canonists, Civilians, and Courts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities...
A History of Law in Europe
From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legislative models, doctrines and customs within Europe included English common law and has been extensive from the early middle ages to the present time. In...