Legal History category: 1513 books
Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery...
Torture and the Law of Proof
Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's...
Judging Bertha Wilson
Law as Large as Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history. This engaging, authorized, intellectual biography draws on interviews conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society...
by Christopher Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today's...
Before Eminent Domain
Toward a History of Expropriation of Land for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.
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Women Before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic...
The Purse and the Sword
The Trials of Israel's Legal Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Purse and the Sword presents a critical analysis of Israel's legal system in the context of its politics, history, and the forces that shape its society. This book examines the extensive powers that Israel's Supreme Court arrogated to itself since the 1980s and traces the history of the transformation...
by Anna Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Our Law and its philosophy have been conceived for an economic world where the main source of wealth was material. Although this world no longer exists, its laws are still alive and slow down the development of modern economies. Patent law strikingly shows this fact. Invented mainly during the industrial...
Yale Law School and the Sixties
Revolt and Reverberations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yale's past and with the social climate in which they lived. During a charged moment in...
by Richard Garner
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made...
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey
Historical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. ;This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questi52.99ons of law, and that the...
by Lisi Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The laws of Æthelbert of Kent (ca. 600), Hlohere and Eadric (685x686), and Wihtred (695), are the earliest laws from Anglo-Saxon England, and the first Germanic laws written in the vernacular. They are of unique importance as the only extant early medieval English laws that delineate the progress...
The Trouble with Minna
A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna's case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently...
by Bo Stråth, Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Roman law is widely considered to be the foundation of European legal culture and an inherent source of unity within European law. Roman Law and the Idea of Europe explores the emergence of this idea of Roman law as an idealized shared heritage, tracing its origins among exiled German scholars in...