Legal History category: 1513 books
Neighbors and Strangers
Law and Community in Early Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes...
by Ari Mermelstein, Victoria Saker Woeste, Ethan Zadoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A new collection edited by Ari Mermelstein, along with Victoria Saker Woeste, Ethan Zadoff, and Marc Galanter, and with chapters by leading scholars in their fields.
Jews are a people of law, and law defines who the Jewish people are and what they believe. This anthology engages with the growing...
The Devil's Advocates
Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
From the authors of the acclaimed Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, and featuring some of the most important cases in criminal law, The Devil's Advocates is the final volume of a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal history.
Criminal law is considered by many to...
by Robert Saute
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
'For the Poor and Disenfranchised' is an historical and institutional analysis of the public interest bar in the United States. It traces how the legal profession delivered on the legal system's promise of equal justice for all by making the legal system available to all and a vehicle for substantive...
Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law
From Antiquity to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of...
by Harry N. Scheiber
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917-1921, is a Digitally Remastered™ reprint of one of the classic works of legal and social history. Harry Scheiber's much-cited study of Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet explores the suppression of speech and print publication during an era of world...
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Lives in the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession
In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred...
Law and Legal Process
Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
This collection of papers from the Twentieth British Legal History Conference explores the relationship between substantive law and the way in which it actually worked. Instead of looking at what the courts said they were doing, it is concerned more with the reality of what was happening. To that...
Inventing American Exceptionalism
The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A highly engaging account of the developments—not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural—that gave rise to Americans’ distinctively lawyer-driven legal culture When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial—dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers...
The Futility of Law and Development
China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience. Jedidiah Kroncke uses the Founders' serious engagement with, and often admiration...
History and Power in the Study of Law
New Directions in Legal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the ‘legal’ as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who...
by Thomas Glyn Watkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Watkin provides a history of the various legal systems by which Wales and its people have been governed over the last two millenia, including the civil law of Rome, the laws of the native Welsh people, the canon law of the Church and the English common law. This book shows how in each age the people...
Being Watched
Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A riveting history of the Supreme Court decision that set the legal precedent for citizen challenges to government surveillance
The tension between national security and civil rights is nowhere more evident than in the fight over government domestic surveillance. Governments must be able to...
The Fiercest Debate
Cecil A Wright, the Benchers, and Legal Education in Ontario 1923-1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
From its earliest days the Law Society of Upper Canada adhered to the traditions of English legal practice and education. In the 1930s and 1940s, however, some of the most cherished of those traditions were challenged in a bitter debate about the nature of legal education in Ontario. This book tells...