Legal History category: 1513 books
The Conscience of the Constitution
The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a forgotten truth: the word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in either the Constitution or the Declaration. But it is the overemphasis of democracy by the legal community–rather than the primacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'keeping...
by Herbert C. Hallas
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Official court reporting in American courtrooms was brought about by the skill, dedication, and determination of a remarkable group of pioneer shorthand writers. Many of them were reformers, some were entrepreneurs, and others were inventors, writers, artists, and scientists. All of them were gifted...
No Bond but the Law
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
"A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?' She thought for a few minutes, then said, 'What was that date again?'" -- from the book
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The Supreme Court: Landmark Decisions
20 Cases that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach.”
—Obergefell v. Hodges
In the United States of America, the legislative branch is responsible for creating legislation, while the executive branch is responsible for signing that legislation and enforcing it. But how do senators,...
Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish
The Arkansas Supreme Court, 1836–1874
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined the efficacy of legislation in cases...
The Japanese American Cases
The Rule of Law in Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented “military necessity,” ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes, almost all reluctantly obeyed their government...
A House in Gross Disorder
Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1999
Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But 17th century England saw a sex scandal that brought disgrace to the ruling class and ended with the beheading of an earl. In A House in Gross Disorder, Cynthia Herrup presents...
Colonial and Post-colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth
Peace, Order and Good Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The peace, order and good government (POGG) clause is found in the constitutions of almost all Commonwealth countries. Since its introduction, the clause has played a significant role in colonial and post-colonial constitutionalism in Commonwealth jurisdictions.
This book is the first full...
The Complete Bill of Rights
The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty. The Complete Bill of Rights is a documentary record of the process by which these rights and privileges were defined and recorded as law. Now in its second edition,...
The Business of Identity
Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic...
The Misery of International Law
Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international...
Legalist Empire
International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
America's empire expanded dramatically following the Spanish-American War of 1898. The United States quickly annexed the Philippines and Puerto Rico, seized control over Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone, and extended political and financial power throughout Latin America. This age of empire, Benjamin...