Legal History category: 1513 books
The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba, 1870-1950
A Biographical History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
This study of the Manitoba judiciary is not only the first biographical history to examine an entire provincial bench, it is also one of the first studies to offer an internal view of the political nature of the judicial appointment process. Dale Brawn has penned the biographies of the first thirty-three...
Nuremberg Trials: Legal Responsibilities
Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: A, University at Albany, State University of New York, course: International Law , language: English, abstract: In this trial, prosecution for 'crimes against humanity' was not, in a legal sense,...
Vengeance Is Mine
The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The 1912 Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas began with a torrid sex scandal at the core of a love triangle, featuring Lena Snyder Sneed, the high-spirited, headstrong wife; Al Boyce, Jr., Lenas reckless, romantic lover; and John Beal Sneed, Lenas arrogant, grim, and vindictive husband, who responded to Lenas...
Law and the Gay Rights Story
The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and...
Champion of Civil Rights
Judge John Minor Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American...
Reason and Imagination
The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him,...
Abraham Lincoln, Esq.
The Legal Career of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham Lincoln,...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684–2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts...
by Thomas D. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically,...
by John Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Designed for students and teachers of Ancient History or Classical Civilisation at school and in early university years, this series provides a valuable collection of guides to the history, art, literature, values and social institutions of the ancient world. "Early Greek Lawgivers" examines...
Literary Executions
Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue...
Governing the Hearth
Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume collects many of the key essays exploring the possible relationships between the concepts of law and morality, a central concern of contemporary philosophizing about law. It is organized around five conceptual issues: classical natural law theory; legal positivism's separability thesis;...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This third volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law presents thoroughly researched, original essays in Nova Scotian legal history. An introduction by the editors is followed by ten essays grouped into four main areas of study. The first is the legal system as a whole: essays in this section...