Legal History category: 1513 books
The Inception of Modern Professional Education
C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently...
by H. N. Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
A recognized, fascinating and much-cited classic of judicial biography and Supreme Court insight is now available in a quality ebook edition, featuring active contents, linked notes, proper formatting, and a fully-linked Index.
Felix Frankfurter was perhaps the most influential jurist of the...
Drowning in Laws
Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The November issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 2nd of Volume 123, academic year 2013-2014) features articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:
• Article, “Leviathan and Interpretive Revolution: The Administrative State, the Judiciary, and...
The Legalist Reformation
Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle classes...
by G. Edward White
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the...
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
Dialogues between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....
Mexico's Supreme Court
Between Liberal Individual and Revolutionary Social Rights, 1867-1934
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Although Mexico’s Constitution of 1917 mandated the division of large landholdings, provided land for the landless, and guaranteed workers the rights to organize, strike, and bargain collectively, it also guaranteed fundamental liberal rights to property and due process that enabled property owners...
by David L. Hudson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it.
• Illuminates the significance of formative primary documents through annotations
•...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin-based...
Partners for Democracy
Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most successful and stable democracies. In an age when democracy is often pursued, yet rarely accomplished, in which failed democracies are found throughout...
A Case to Answer
The story of Australia's first European war crimes prosecution
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
On Australia Day 1990, a seventy-three-year-old man was plucked from the Adelaide suburbs and accused of helping massacre nearly nine hundred men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The trial of Ivan Polyukhovich stretched across the world as witnesses gathered to testify from Ukraine, Israel...
Petitioning for Land
The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Petitioning for Land is the first book to examine the extent of First Peoples political participation through the use of petitions. Interpreting petitions as a continuous form of political articulation, Karen O'Brien considers petitioning for recognition of prior land ownership as a means by which...
Foundations of World Order
The Legalist Approach to International Relations, 1898–1922
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
In Foundations of World Order Francis Anthony Boyle provides the first historically comprehensive analysis of U.S. foreign policy regarding international law and organizations. Examining the period from the Spanish American War to the establishment of the League of Nations and the Permanent Court...