Legal history Books
Oxford University Press Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Book SynopsisChief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated. Ours is intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. In recent years, Marshall''s great truths have been supplanted by originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed as it was in the eighteenth century--that judges must adhere to the original understandings of the founding law. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall''s vision. They describe their approach as constitutional fidelity--not to the indecipherable intent of the framers, but to the principles of the Constitution. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it
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Oxford University Press Common Law in Colonial America Volume II
Book SynopsisWilliam E. Nelson''s first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain''s thirteen North American colonies-each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions -slowly converged into a common law order that differed substantially from English common law. The first volume focused on how the legal systems of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--contrasted with those of the New England colonies and traced these dissimilarities from the initial settlement of America until approximately 1660. In this new volume, Nelson brings the discussion forward, covering the years from 1660, which saw the Restoration of the British monarchy, to 1730. In particular, he analyzes the impact that an increasingly powerful British governTrade Review"This volume continues a multi-volume history of the common law in America by our greatest authority on the foundations of the American legal system. Like his other work, it is the product of unmatched meticulous research into the archival record of legal institutions as they affected the lives of ordinary Americans - male and female, white and black, powerful and weak. It is as much a human study as it is an institutional one, and it takes its well-earned place as a classic in legal history." - David Thomas Konig, Professor of History and Professor of Law at Washington University in St. LouisTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; I. DUTCH AND PURITAN LAW IN NEW NETHERLAND ; A. The Dutch Legal System of New ; B. "Rude, Untechnical" Law in the Early English Settlements ; II. NEW YORK: THE PERSISTENCE OF DUTCH AND PURITAN ; A. The Persistence of Dutch Law along the Upper Hudson ; B. New England Law on the Islands and in Westchester ; III. NEW YORK: THE TRIUMPH OF THE COMMON LAW ; A. The Emergence of Common Law in New York City ; B. The Triumph of Common Law in the Colony at Large ; IV. COMMON LAW IN THE CITY-STATE OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA . ; A. The Success and Failure of Ashley's Plans ; B. Creating Law ; C. The End of the Proprietary Regime and the Beginning of Royal Government ; V. POLITICIZING THE COURTS AND UNDERMINING THE LAW IN NORTH CAROLINA ; A. The Colony on the Albemarle Sound ; B. The Judicial System's Collapse ; VI. PENNSYLVANIA: GOVERNMENT BY JUDICIARY ; A. The Immediate Adoption of the Common Law ; B. The Disempowerment of Juries ; C. Law, Order, and Stability ; D. Explaining Hegemony ; VII. DELAWARE AND NEW JERSEY: A MICROCOSM OF THE COLONIAL NORTH ; A. Delaware ; B. East Jersey ; C. West Jersey ; D. New Jersey ; VIII. CONCLUSION: THE COMMON LAW AS MECHANISM OF GOVERNANCE
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Oxford University Press Long Reach of the Sixties C
Book SynopsisThe 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 cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Presidents Johnson and Nixon attempted to dominate the Court and alter its course. Using newly released--and consistently entertaining--recordings of Lyndon Johnson''s and Richard Nixon''s telephone conversations, she roots their efforts to mold the Court in their desire to protect their Presidencies. The fierce ideological battles--between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches--that ensued transformed the meaning of the Warren Court in American memory. Despite the fact that the Court''s decisions generally reflected public opinion, the surroTrade ReviewKalman deftly argues that confirmation hearings with little substance, nominees selected exclusively from Harvard and Yale, and the heavy emphasis on past judicial experience are a direct consequence of the lessons presidents have learned from this critical period. * C. Shortell, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface I: A New President Seeks Power: 1963-65 II: Musical Chairs, 1965-66 III: Bogeyman, 1966-1968 IV: "A Man's Reach Should [Not] Exceed His Grasp:" Summer and Fall, 1968 V: The Last Days of the Warren Court, 1969-70 VI: "Southern Discomfort," 1969-70 VII: The Lost Ball Game, Or How Not to Choose Two Justices, 1971 Epilogue
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought Transpositions and Empire Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Book SynopsisA collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.Table of ContentsPART I: EUROPEAN LAW AND GLOBAL JUSTICE Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations; I.Hunter Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard; D.Ivison PART II: TRANSPOSITIONS OF EMPIRE The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, ca. 1490-1830; C.Tomlins The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century; J.McLaren 'Your Sovereign and Our Father': The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory; M.D.Walters The Justification of King Leopold II's Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss; A.Fitzmaurice PART III: FRONTIERS OF JUSTICE Samuel Marsden's Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia; A.Sharp The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia; M.Finnane The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney; L.Ford William Pember Reeves (1857-1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian and 'Rough Architect' of the New Zealand State; P.G.McHugh PART IV: THE CROWN IN COLONIAL NEW ZEALAND Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period; S.Dorsett Imperial Policy, Colonial Government and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s; D.Ward Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand; M.Hickford
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Pennsylvania State University Press Murder and Madness on Trial
Book SynopsisExplores the 1588 murder trial of Paolo Barbieri in Bologna, examining early modern violence, madness, criminal justice, medical and legal expertise, and the construction and circulation of news. Trade Review“Murder and Madness on Trial, in dialogue with both historians of medicine and social and legal historians, paints a complex and rich picture of early modern madness. Thanks to the unusual abundance of the documentation of the case—legal, medical, literary—Calabritto describes in detail a nuanced case of murder, illness, and conflict of expertise, interpretation, and political cultures.”—Paolo Savoia,author of Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain“By discussing jurists’ and physicians’ expertise, the social and cultural expectations of lay witnesses and contemporary accounts of the events, Murder and Madness on Trial creates an original and multiperspectival history that adds to current work on early modern perceptions of insanity.”—Silvia De Renzi,author of Instruments in Print: Books from the Whipple Collection“When a young Bolognese nobleman prone to delusion and rage slaughtered his well-born wife in 1588, the shocking crime set off a drama that drew in men of law and medicine, stirred up the city’s chronicles, and subverted the host family’s authority for decades to come. Murder and Madness on Trial ties everything together in a literary, medical, legal, and social history that traces discordant understandings of crime and mental illness and tracks the crime’s lasting repercussions within the wider family.”—Thomas V. Cohen,York University“When a Bolognese nobleman kills his teenage wife with a sword and flees into the night, is he insane? What might that even mean? In Calabritto’s brisk retelling chaos descends as judges fight with doctors over how to define madness and guilt, local authorities resist papal overlords’ push to prosecute, and a family dissolves in animosity, grief, and vengeance. A brilliant and sobering reconstruction of the emotional cost of mental illness in the late Renaissance.”—Nicholas Terpstra,University of Toronto
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Yale University Press Lawtalk
Book SynopsisNot just for lawyers, these illuminating histories of popular law-related expressions will delight anyone fascinated by words, by history, or by law and law enforcementTrade Review"Lawtalk combines enormous erudition with loads of levity-the result being a compulsively browsable book that will leave readers wordly-wise."—Bryan A. Garner, President, LawProse, Inc., Editor in Chief, Black's Law Dictionary -- Bryan A. Garner"A genuine contribution in an area where precious little exists. Extraordinarily original and of even more extraordinary scholarship, truly erudite, researched and sourced. I would run to buy it." --Roger Newman, editor of The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law. -- Roger Newman“This imaginative book will enlighten and amuse not only lawyers, but anyone who thinks about law, talks about law, or has to deal with law—that is to say, all of us,”—Linda Greenhouse, author of Becoming Justice Blackmun -- Linda Greenhouse"The language of the law is endlessly colorful, sometimes quite literally so: think of blue laws, green cards, blackmail and white-shoe firms. Finally we have an authoritative reference for all these terms and many more, written in a highly engaging style. Even if you're a shyster who couldn't indict a ham sandwich, at least now you'll know where those expressions came from."—Ben Zimmer, executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com and Vocabulary.com. -- Ben Zimmer“Lawtalk is not just entertaining, but also quite educational. Lawyers, judges, and lay people interested in the workings of the legal system can learn a great deal from it,”—Peter Tiersma, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. -- Peter Tiersma“Well-researched and entertaining...a skillful mix of scholarship and readability...extensively documented with social, cultural, historic, and, of course, legal sources.”—Joan Pedzich, Library Journal -- Joan Pedzich * Library Journal *"Lawtalk is serious scholarship . . . leavened with wry wit and a snappy style of writing that keeps one turning pages both to discover more and to smile more."—JoAnn Baca, The Federal Lawyer -- JoAnn Baca * The Federal Lawyer *"Elegant, deliciously detailed, and authoritative . . . demonstrate[s] that learning can be fun."—Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Huffington Post *“Lively and entertaining . . . fascinating . . . a gem of a book . . . well-documented and well-researched . . . Lawtalk yields a multitude of interesting and amusing tidbits.”—Donna M. Fisher, AALL Spectrum (American Association of Law Libraries) -- Donna M. Fisher * AALL Spectrum *“Insightful and entertaining”—Spartanburg Herald Journal * Spartanburg Herald Journal *“Fun and well-researched.”—Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer -- Howard Shapiro * Philadelphia Inquirer *"A group of distinguished professorial lawyers . . . tell us the history and meaning of lawyer talk.”—Jacob Stein, Washington Lawyer * Washington Lawyer *"Very well researched and comprehensive. . .The history behind each phrase is fascinating. . .Provides an enlightening insight into the countless pieces of ‘legalese’ to which we are all exposed daily, but have had little reason to question - until now."—Law Actually blog * Law Actually blog *“[Lawtalk] would be a treasured newcomer to any bookshelf and provides an enlightening insight into the countless pieces of ‘legalese’ to which we are all exposed daily, but have had little reason to question - until now.”—Law Actually * Law Actually *“Insightful . . . [and] as entertaining as it is enlightening.”—John G. Browning, Southeast Texas Record -- John G. Browning * Southeast Texas Record *"A witty, informative collection . . . In a refreshingly candid manner, Lawtalk explores race, gender, and class issues associated with the evolution of commonly used phrases . . . Amusing, enlightening, and authoritative, this well-researched mini-reference is something readers will return to repeatedly."—Danielle Ochs-Tillotson, California Lawyer * California Lawyer *“Lawtalk stands apart from many popular works on word origins for the academic rigor underpinning its accessibility.”—Rebecca Shapiro, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America -- Rebecca Shapiro * Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America *
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Yale University Press Creating the Administrative Constitution
Book SynopsisLooks at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. The author demonstrates that from the very beginning of the republic Congress delegated vast discretion to administrative officials and armed them with extrajudicial adjudicatory, rulemaking, and enforcement authority.
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iUniverse The Kent State Coverup
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iUniverse We Gotta Have More Jails
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iUniverse CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY A Historical Perspective
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iUniverse The Idea of Justice in Judaism
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iUniverse Judge Mojo The True Story of One Attorneys Fight against Judicial Terrorism
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iUniverse THE LEGAL LAMPOON A Practical nononsense Guide for anyone interested in becoming or hiring a lawyer
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iUniverse Crimes Against Humanity A Historical Perspective
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iUniverse The Legal Lampoon A Practical NoNonsense Guide for Anyone Interested in Becoming or Hiring a Lawyer
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions Instructions for cutting out apparel for the poor principally intended for the assistance of the patronesses of Sunday schools Containing patterns directions and calculations
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Gale Ecco, Print Editions Minutes of the evidence taken at the bar of the House of Lords upon the order made for taking into consideration the present state of the trade to Africa and particularly the trade in slaves
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Supreme Court and American Political Development
Book SynopsisExplores the evolution of constitutional doctrine as elaborated by the Supreme Court. Moving beyond the traditional ""law versus politics"" perspective, the authors draw on studies in American Political Development (APD) to present a complex view of the Court as both a legal and political entity.
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University Press of Kansas MCulloch V. Maryland
Book SynopsisRecounts how the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the US refused to pay Maryland's tax on the bank and how that act precipitated a showdown in the Supreme Court. This book provides a virtual constitutional history of the first fifty years of the nation.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas States of Union
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Henry Holt & Company Inc Supreme Court The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
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Henry Holt & Company Inc The Day Freedom Died The Colfax Massacre the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina English Law in the Age of the Black Death 1348 A
Book SynopsisShows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. Robert Palmer's book, based on all of the available legal records, establishes a genuinely new interpretation and chronology of these important legal changes.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Leo Frank Case
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer. This book includes letters written by Jim Conley, who was the state's main witness against Frank.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The State Law and Religion Pagan Rome
Book SynopsisA major new perspective on the nature and development of Roman law in the early republic and empire before Christianity was recognized by Constantine. Watson analyses how modes of legal reasoning in sacred law were carried over to private law, where they were often less appropriate, and were passed on to modern legal systems.Trade ReviewA courageous, readable, and illuminating study . . . It displays all the proven qualities of Professor Watson's style: clarity, crisp arguments, and that overarching vision that brings together things disparate and baffling, and illumines them all. . . . It will be a revelation to historians and students of literature, and it will enthrall the jurists and the students of religion.|Scholars interested in the questions of the interaction between Roman law and religion will find this book thought provoking and beneficial in elucidating various points and issues.|The significance of this slim, well-written, and informative book should be obvious to the student of religious history, theology, and ethics.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Rescue of Joshua Glover A Fugitive Slave the Constitution and the Coming of the Civil War
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Takeaway (Publishing) The Rights and Wrongs of Royal Marriage How the Law Has Led to Heartbreak Farce and Confusion and Why It Must Be Changed
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Legare Street Press Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London n.s. v.18
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Legare Street Press Kings County Genealogical Club Collections 1 no. 16
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Legare Street Press The Bahamas Law Reports
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Legare Street Press The Civil Code of Japan
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Legare Street Press Sinclairs Division Court Act 1886 microform
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Legare Street Press The Origin of Laws Arts and Sciences
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Legare Street Press Report of the Arguments in the Court of Queens Bench on Shewing Cause Against the Conditional Order for a Criminal Information Against John Sarsfield Casey at the Prosecution of Patten Smith Bridge
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Legare Street Press Kings County Genealogical Club Collections 1 no. 16
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Legare Street Press Kilmeny of the Orchard. With Four Illus. in Colour From Paintings by George Gibbs
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Legare Street Press The Bahamas Law Reports
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Legare Street Press Elements of Jurisprudence
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Legare Street Press Reports of Cases Decided in the Native Appeal Courts of the Trankeian Territories 18941909
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Legare Street Press The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania
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Legare Street Press Infamia
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Legare Street Press Acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida
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Legare Street Press The Origin of Laws Arts and Sciences
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Legare Street Press Legal Facetiae
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Legare Street Press Origin and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry in the United States
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