Legal History category: 1513 books
The Long Reach of the Sixties
LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court...
Give Me Liberty
A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve essential documents
Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly -- from the United...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
These are the papers from the 8th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference held in July 2016. In the usual manner, these papers have been selected from an oversupply of proposals for their interest and relevance, and scrutinised and edited to the highest standard for inclusion in this prestigious series.
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The Nuremberg Trials
The Investigation into Crimes Against Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Nuremberg trials in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Nuremberg trials. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the world was slowly coming round to the large-scale...
Taming the Past
Essays on Law in History and History in Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces - such as feudalism and slavery, the tyranny of princes and priests, and...
Historian in Chief
How Presidents Interpret the Past to Shape the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Presidents shape not only the course of history but also how Americans remember and retell that history. From the Oval Office they instruct us what to respect and what to reject in our past. They regale us with stories about who we are as a people, and tell us whom in the pantheon of greats we should...
Congress and the People’s Contest
The Conduct of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture...
The Law's Conscience
Equitable Constitutionalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Law's Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor's court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Peter Hoffer argues that equity embodies a way of looking at...
Uncle Sam Wants You
World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase...
Buying the Vote
A History of Campaign Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating...
Dissent and the Supreme Court
Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
From the admired judicial authority, author of Louis D. Brandeis (“Remarkable”—Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books; “Monumental”—Alan M. Dershowitz, The New York Times Book Review), Division and Discord, and Supreme Decisions—Melvin Urofsky’s major new book looks at the role...
Against Dharma
Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance
Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma*,artha,* and kama*.* Translated, these might be called religion, politics,...
Lochner v. New York
Economic Regulation on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1998
Lochner v. New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history. In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important...
Summer for the Gods
The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings...