Legal History category: 1513 books
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie
A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics.
The essays in this book, written by eminent law professors,...
The Other Rights Revolution
Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state--the sets of rules, legal precedents, and bureaucratic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history not by focusing simply on law, or even on the relationship between law and society, but by using the concept of "legality" to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships...
System, Order, and International Law
The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Since the formation of nation-states lawyers, philosophers, and theologians have sought to envisage the ideal political order. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of today's theoretical discourses on international law. This volume...
Married Women and the Law
Coverture in England and the Common Law World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England...
Mr. Mothercountry
The Man Who Made the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political, economic, cultural and racial ones. One of the central problems of political theory is the insurmountable gap between ideas and their realization....
A History of Australian Tort Law 1901-1945
England's Obedient Servant?
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Little attention has been paid to the development of Australian private law throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using the law of tort as an example, Mark Lunney argues that Australian contributions to common law development need to be viewed in the context of the British race patriotism...
Monopolies and Patents
A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1947
Harold G. Fox is a native of Toronto and a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Law School of Osgoode Hall. For some years he practised patent and trade mark law as a member of the firm of Fetherstonhaugh & Fox. In the nineteen-twenties he was invited to take over the management of the...
Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945
The Reception of Western Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Taiwan�s modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the People�s Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted Western law during the 19th-century and when it occupied Taiwan--a frontier society composed of Han Chinese...
Justice in a New World
Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World
As British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought...
The Ecology of Law
Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
WINNER OF THE 2015 IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD IN POLITICS/CURRENT EVENTS
**The Ecology of Law
Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei argue that at the root of many of the environmental, economic, and social crises we face today is a legal system based on an obsolete worldview. Capra, a bestselling...
The Enlightenment on Trial
Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, reflecting the daily realities of managing society. To understand Greek law, then, requires looking into...
by William A. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The life and times of a trailblazing lawyer and judge in American law. Author of the controversial but prescient judicial opinion striking down the ban on gays in the military -- two decades before the Supreme Court finally recognized such equal rights -- Bill Norris made law and waves on the Ninth...