Legal History category: 1513 books
by Alfred Denning
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1980
Two central themes run through The Due Process of Law. The first is the workings of the various "measures authorised by the law so as to keep the streams of justice pure" - that is to say, contempt of court, judicial inquiries, and powers of arrest and search. The second is the recent development...
by Cecil C. Kuhne III
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Discover the legal side of skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, and other types of snow sports with this fascinating, new addition to the ABA Little Books Series! In it, you'll find a variety of compelling questions, such as:• Is falling down an unmarked ravine near a ski run an "inherent danger and...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The June 2017 issue, Number 8, features these extensive contents:
* Article, "The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise," by Anna Lvovsky
* Essay, "The Debate That Never Was," by Nicos Stavropoulos
* Essay, "Hart's Posthumous Reply," by Ronald Dworkin
* Book...
by Roscoe Pound
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because he believed the administration of justice had lost its grounding and recourse to enduring...
by Stephen C. Neff
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Justice among Nations tells the story of the rise of international law and how it has been formulated, debated, contested, and put into practice from ancient times to the present. Stephen Neff avoids technical jargon as he surveys doctrines from natural law to feminism, and practice from the Warring...
A Dharma Reader
Classical Indian Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend...
Extraordinary Justice
Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001, aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or “commissions” for the trial of accused terrorists. The Supreme Court has weighed in on the topic with...
The Mormon Question
Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect...
Race on Trial
Law and Justice in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2002
This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America; cases that illustrate the treatment of race in American history; cases of great fame that became the trials...
Birth of a White Nation
The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The book provides a thorough examination of the...
by Harold Winter
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With Issues in Law and Economics, Harold Winter takes readers through these...
American Constitutionalism
From Theory to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1998
Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars...
The U.S. Supreme Court and New Federalism
From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Constitutional scholars Christopher P. Banks and John C. Blakeman offer the most current and the first book-length study of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “new federalism” begun by the Rehnquist Court and now flourishing under Chief Justice John Roberts. Using descriptive and empirical methods in...
Is Eating People Wrong?
Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the...