Legal History category: 1513 books
by Anthony Arlidge, Lord Igor Judge
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta.The story of how Magna Carta came into being ,and has been interpreted since, and its impact on individual rights and constitutional developments has more twists and turns than any work of historical fiction.
The authors bring...
Law in American History, Volume II
From Reconstruction Through the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In this second installment of G. Edward White's sweeping history of law in America from the colonial era to the present, White, covers the period between 1865-1929, which encompasses Reconstruction, rapid industrialization, a huge influx of immigrants, the rise of Jim Crow, the emergence of an American...
Hopes for Better Spouses
Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Modern Protestant debates about spousal relations and the meaning of marriage began in a forgotten international dispute some 300 years ago. The Lutheran-Pietist ideal of marriage as friendship and mutual pursuit of holiness battled with the idea that submission defined spousal roles.
Exploiting...
by Victoria Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Victoria Nourse argues that lawyers must be educated on the basic procedures that define how Congress operates today. Lawmaking creates winners and losers. If lawyers and judges do not understand this, they may embrace the meanings of those who opposed legislation, turning legislative losers into judicial winners and standing democracy on its head.
Everyman's Constitution
Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "Conspiracy Theory," and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Leicester.
Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin's gulags, global...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Edward Gibbon's allegation at the beginning of his Essay on the Study of Literature (1764) that the history of empires is that of the miseries of humankind whereas the history of the sciences is that of their splendour and happiness has for a long time been accepted by professional scientists and...
by Bruno Leoni
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
According to Bruno Leoni, the greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time is the problem of overlegislation. In modern democratic societies, legislative bodies increasingly usurp functions that were, and should be, exercised by individuals or groups rather than government.
Bruno Leoni (1913–1967)...
The First Bilateral Investment Treaties
U.S. Postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.S. postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation (FCN) treaty program, and focuses on the investment-related provisions of those treaties. The 22 U.S. postwar FCN treaties were the first bilateral investment treaties ever...
Interpreting the Free Exercise of Religion
The Constitution and American Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
A generation ago, all of the big questions concerning religious freedom in America seemed to have been resolved. At the very least, the lines of division between proponents of a wall of separation between church and state and advocates of religious accommodation seemed clearly drawn. Since then, increasing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Like many beliefs, religious views matter across an individual's life and the life cycle of a family - from birth to marriage, through child-rearing, and, eventually, death. This volume examines clashes over religious liberty within the personal realm of the family. Against swirling religious beliefs,...
The Battle for the Court
Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Once largely ignored, judicial elections in the states have become increasingly controversial over the past two decades. Legal organizations, prominent law professors, and a retired Supreme Court justice have advocated the elimination of elections as a means to choose judges. One of their primary...
The Judicial Committee and the British North America Act
An Analysis of the Interpretative Scheme for the Distribution of Legislative Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This comprehensive study is concerned primarily with the fundamental problem of the role of the judiciary in the federal system of Canadian government. The author criticizes previous accounts of the Judicial Committee’s interpretative scheme for the British North American Act because of their neglect...
The Age of Deference
The Supreme Court, National Security, and the Constitutional Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
In October 1948-one year after the creation of the U.S. Air Force as a separate military branch-a B-29 Superfortress crashed on a test run, killing the plane's crew. The plane was constructed with poor materials, and the families of the dead sued the U.S. government for damages. In the case, the government...