Legal History category: 1513 books

Cover of Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
by Julius Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and challenge the idea that Florentine women had an inferior legal position and civic status. In Marriage,...
Cover of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
by Maria Isabel Medina
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016

Maria Isabel Medina's chronicle of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law examines the prominent Jesuit institution across its hundred-year history, from its founding in 1914 through the first decade of the twenty-first century. With a mission to make the legal profession attainable to Catholics,...
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The Legal Epic

"Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law

by Alison A. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England’s history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton...
Cover of Introduction to English Legal History
by John Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019

Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present and, combined with Baker and Milsom's...
Cover of Essays in the History of Canadian Law
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history. In combination, these volumes reflect the wide-ranging scope of legal history as an intellectual discipline andencourage...
Cover of Essays in the History of Canadian Law
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981

This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area. Topics covered include historical aspects of company law, the law and the economy,...
Cover of Representing the Poor: Legal Advocacy and Welfare Reform During Reagan's Gubernatorial Years
by Mark N. Aaronson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

The empirical focus of this book is the contentious political and legal battle over California welfare reform in the early 1970s. It is an extended, multifaceted case study of a kind not much found in the literature on social cause lawyering. The narrative highlights the forceful presence of Ronald...
Cover of Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017

This volume critically evaluates the latest legal reform of China, covering major areas such as trade and securities law, online privacy law, criminal law, human rights and international law. It represents a bold departure from the most recent works on Chinese legal reform by engaging the ideas of...
Cover of A History of Law in Canada, Volume One
by Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, R. Blake Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the history of law in Canada. This volume begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, while volume two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions,...
Cover of Chinese Legal Culture and Constitutional Order
by Shiping Hua
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

This book examines China’s striving for a constitutional order in the 20th century from comparative, historical, and theoretical perspectives. Through a comprehensive study of six major constitutional reforms experienced by China in the last century, Shiping Hua explores pragmatism, instrumentalism,...
Cover of Imbeciles

Imbeciles

The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

by Adam Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

**Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land** In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down...
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The Law of the Land

The Evolution of Our Legal System

by Charles Rembar
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015

National Book Award Finalist: “A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman” (The New Yorker). What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America’s legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment?...
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Colour-Coded

A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

by Constance Backhouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1999

Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal...
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The Right Wrong Man

John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial

by Lawrence Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence...
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