Legal History category: 1513 books
Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri
Balancing Freedom and Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathized with secession, or favored...
Going to Court
An Introduction to the U.S. Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Going to Court provides a younger generation with an in-depth look at the processes of the U.S. Justice System. This middle grade textbook is a user-friendly, kid-friendly version of a law book to understand civil and criminal trials. It provides a fun and interactive learning process highlighting different...
When Good Drugs Go Bad
Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments. Drug dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. Dan Malleck reveals how different forces converged...
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia
History, Principle and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia examines the body of constitutional jurisprudence in an original and rigorous yet accessible way. It begins by exploring the historical and intellectual context of ideas surrounding the Constitution's inception, and closely examines its text, structure,...
John Paul Stevens
Defender of Rights in Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book examines the judicial opinions and criminal justice policy impact of Justice John Paul Stevens, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most prolific opinion author during his 35-year career on the nation’s highest court. Although Justice Stevens, a Republican appointee of President Gerald Ford, had...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution offers a comprehensive overview and introduction to the U.S. Constitution from the perspectives of history, political science, law, rights, and constitutional themes, while focusing on its development, structures, rights, and role in the U.S. political...
Exporting American Dreams
Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations rather than lawsuits the hallmark of the civil rights...
The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney
The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Northern Democrat from the Age of Jackson to the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Ohio’s Rufus P. Ranney embodied many of the most intriguing social and political tensions of his time. He was an anticorporate campaigner who became John D. Rockefeller’s favorite lawyer. A student and law partner of abolitionist Benjamin F. Wade, Ranney acquired an antislavery reputation and...
Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered
British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Throughout the British colonies in the nineteenth century, judges were expected not only to administer law and justice, but also to play a significant role within the governance of their jurisdictions. British authorities were consequently concerned about judges' loyalty to the Crown, and on occasion...
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Michigan, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic...
The Men of Mobtown
Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during and after slavery's...
Cattle Lords and Clansmen
The Social Structure of Early Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1994
In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods, Patterson produces a unique approach to the study...
by David G. Chardavoyne
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
The first historical study—and a riveting account—of the last execution in Michigan.
War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956
Justice in Time of Turmoil
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two. After the Second World War in Asia, the victorious Allies placed around 5,700 Japanese on trial for war crimes. Ostensibly crafted to bring perpetrators to justice,...