Legal History category: 1513 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
For more than fifty years, The Supreme Court Review has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions. The Supreme Court Review is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront...
Reproductive Rights in New York and New Jersey
Abortion, the Empire, and the Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
New York and New Jersey maintain almost identical laws dealing with abortion, but the process for developing those laws differed in each state. Courts were heavily involved in New Jersey, whereas most policy decisions came from elected officials in New York. In this book, Parent argues that these...
Irreparable Harm
A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses. What he received instead was a cold shoulder from a CIA that in 1975 was already...
Conventional Wisdom
The Alternate Article V Mechanism for Proposing Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them. Scholars and frustrated advocates of constitutional change have often criticized this process for being too difficult....
Staging the Trials of Modernism
Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce. By tracing the relationships between the literature,...
by Hugh Thirlway
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This new edition of Hugh Thirlway's authoritative text provides an introduction to one of the fundamental questions of the discipline: what is, and what is not, a source of international law. Traditionally, treaties between states and state practice were seen as the primary means with which to create...
Il mite civilizzatore delle nazioni
Ascesa e caduta del diritto internazionale 1870-1960
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 4, 2012
«Koskenniemi svela la struttura del paradigma del diritto internazionale: esso fu un disegno indiscutibilmente eurocentrico, che aspirava ad imporsi universalmente attraverso la piena realizzazione di un progetto coloniale. Emerge così il doppio volto enigmatico del liberalismo del diciannovesimo...
Teoría de la interpretación jurídica
Compilación y traducción de Alejandro Vergara Blanco
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 3, 2015
“Emilio Betti ha dejado una profunda huella en la ciencia jurídica y en la teoría de la interpretación (…) Ofrecemos aquí una versión castellana de los textos relativos a la interpretación jurídica contenidos en sus fundamentales textos de hermenéutica”. Alejandro Vergara Blanco, Profesor...
Inside the Law
Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Law firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching...
Pen and Ink Witchcraft
Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,...
by William H. Rehnquist
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Rehnquist’s engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall’s dominance of the Court...
by David Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The Law of Ancient Athens contains the principal literary and epigraphical sources, in English, for Athenian law in the Archaic and Classical periods, from the first known historical trial (late seventh century) to the fall of the democracy in 322 BCE.
This accessible and important volume is...
Let the Students Speak!
A History of the Fight for Free Expression in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
From a trusted scholar and powerful story teller, an accessible and lively history of free speech, for and about students.
Let the Students Speak! details the rich history and growth of the First Amendment in public schools, from the early nineteenth-century's failed student free-expression...
The Case of Valentine Shortis
A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through the head, managed to survive. Charged with the murders was Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant. His trial, the longest on record at the time in...