Legal History category: 1513 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law takes the reader through the most important controversies and critical developments in law and U.S. sports. Over the course of 30 chapters, leading scholars explore this expanding and captivating area of law. The Handbook is the first book to gather dozens...
Law 101
An Essential Reference for Your Everyday Legal Questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
A solid reference for both the everyday and the unexpected legal issues, written by practicing attorneys
Law 101 is an essential reference that explains:
How laws are made
How the court system works
How each area of the law impacts your daily life
Key information for important questions:
How...
by Fred Strebeigh
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
The dramatic, untold story of how women battled blatant inequities in America's legal system.
As late as 1967, men outnumbered women twenty to one in American law schools. With the loss of deferments from Vietnam, reluctant law schools began admitting women to avoid plummeting enrollments....
The Legal Universe
Observations of the Foundations of American Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
According to Deloria and Wilkins, "Whenever American minorities have raised voices of protest, they have been admonished to work within the legal system that seek its abolition." This essential work examines the historical evolution of the legal rights of various minority groups and the relationship between these rights and the philosophical intent of the American founders.
Law, Liberty and the Constitution
A Brief History of the Common Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Throughout English history the rule of law and the preservation of liberty have been inseparable, and both are intrinsic to England's constitution. This accessible and entertaining history traces the growth of the law from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It shows how the law...
The DeShaney Case
Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
"Poor Joshua!" lamented Justice Harry Blackmun in his famous dissent. "Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, obviously cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and who knew or learned what was going...
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence, 1735-1776
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The eminent legal historian William E. Nelson's magisterial four-volume The Common Law in Colonial America traces how the many legal orders of Britain's thirteen North American colonies gradually evolved into one American system. Initially established on divergent political, economic, and religious...
Law and the Visual
Transition, Transformation, Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The delict of iniuria is among the most sophisticated products of the Roman legal tradition. The original focus of the delict was assault, although iniuria-literally a wrong or unlawful act-indicated a very wide potential scope. Yet it quickly grew to include sexual harassment and defamation, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The editors of this unique collection of essays exploring the relationship of St. Paul and the natural law bring together contributions by scripture scholars, theologians, philosophers, and international lawyers. Inspired by the special Jubilee Year from June 2008 to June 2009 – proclaimed by Pope...
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools
Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the...
Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700
Micro-Studies in the History of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth narrative micro-studies are featured to illustrate specific issues associated with the theme of...
Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights
From Magna Carta to Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
While challenges to authority are generally perceived as destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays, with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to legal authority - over time, geographical place,...
Just Words
Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts...