Legal History category: 1513 books
In Defense of Honor
Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2000
In this book Sueann Caulfield explores the changing meanings of honor in early-twentieth-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honor, and national progress. With a close examination of legal theory on sexual offenses and...
Reconstructing the Household
Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that...
Murder in Mississippi
United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like...
English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381
A Transformation of Governance and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Robert Palmer's pathbreaking study shows 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. The Black Death killed one-third of the English population...
by Suri Ratnapala
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Jurisprudence offers a comprehensive overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written in plain English, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, promoting a deeper understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. It critically assesses the major schools of jurisprudential...
Religion, Race, Rights
Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and...
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged until it...
The Origins of Modern Financial Crime
Historical foundations and current problems in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime. Focusing on this change and ‘crime in the commercial sphere’, this text considers the legal and economic dimensions of financial crime and its significance in societal consciousness...
Newsworthy
The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international...
Laws Harsh As Tigers
Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
In this book, experts from the fields of law and philosophy explore the works of Aristotle to illuminate the much-debated and fascinating relationship between emotions and justice. Emotions matter in connection with democracy and equity – they are relevant to the judicial enforcement of rights,...
Homicide Justified
The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common...
Across Oceans of Law
The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to...
Hermeneutics in the Genre of Mukhta?ar
Civil and Commercial Law in Islamic Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This book is situated in the wider theoretical framework of civil and commercial law in the context of the tensions and conflicts arising between the Islamic law and western legal systems. The book deals with the genre of Mukhtaṣar in Islamic law and the significance of its emergence in the development...