Legal History category: 1513 books
by Assaf Likhovski
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book presents a broad overview of succession law, encompassing aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history. It examines society and legal practice in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present from both a legal and a sociological perspective. The contributing authors investigate...
The Presidents and the Constitution
A Living History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama.
In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of...
by Tracy A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association
Much has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians have written her biography, detailed her campaign for woman’s suffrage, documented her partnership...
Only One Place of Redress
African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment...
Mea Culpa
Lessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
In Mea Culpa, Steven W. Bender examines how the United States’ collective shame about its past has shaped the evolution of law and behavior. We regret slavery and segregationist Jim Crow laws. We eventually apologize, while ignoring other oppressions, and our legal response to regret often fails...
The Nature of Legal Interpretation
What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless—we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation...
Ecclesiastical Law, Clergy and Laity
A History of Legal Discipline and the Anglican Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Discipline in an ecclesiastical context can be defined as the power of a church to maintain order among its members on issues of morals or doctrine. This book presents a scholarly engagement with the way in which legal discipline has evolved within the Church of England since 1688. It explores how...
World War II Law and Lawyers
Issues, Cases, and Characters
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
The Second World War saw the rise not only of new technologies, new freedoms, new terrors, and a new world order, but of new legal issues. This book takes a global perspective in looking at the legal situations in seven major countries affected by the war. Fifty legal issues are identified from the war,...
by Douglas E. Litowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The legal system is often denounced as “Kafkaesque”—but what does this really mean? This is the question Douglas E. Litowitz tackles in his critical reading of Franz Kafka’s writings about the law.
Going far beyond Kafka’s most familiar works—such as The Trial—Litowitz assembles...
The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs
Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse. It is the first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts....
Empirical Legal Analysis
Assessing the performance of legal institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This innovative volume explores empirical legal issues around the world. While legal studies have traditionally been worked on and of letters and with a normative bent, in recent years quantitative methods have gained traction by offering a brand new perspective of understanding law. That is, legal...
by Santi Romano
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
First published in 1917 (Part 1) and 1918 (Part 2), with a second edition in 1946, this is the first English translation of Santi Romano’s classic work, L’ordinamento giuridico (The Legal Order). The main focus of The Legal Order is the notion of institution, which Romano considers to be both...
Law in American History, Volume III
1930-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
In Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000, the eminent legal scholar G. Edward White concludes his sweeping history of law in America, from the colonial era to the near-present. Picking up where his previous volume left off, at the end of the 1920s, White turns his attention to modern developments...