Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

Edward James Kolla

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• The advent of the principle of popular sovereignty during the French Revolution inspired an unintended but momentous change in international law. Edwa... Lees meer

On the Laws and Customs of England

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D. Tho... Lees meer

The Inception of Modern Professional Education

Bruce A Kimball

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law S... Lees meer

The Fascists and the Jews of Italy

Michael A Livingston

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• From 1938 until 1943 - before the German occupation and accompanying Holocaust - Fascist Italy drafted and enforced a comprehensive set of anti-Semiti... Lees meer

States of Dependency

Karen M Tani

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amid the Great Depression, American reforme... Lees meer

Monitoring American Federalism

Christian G Fritz

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Monitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation's most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active pa... Lees meer

Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England

Elizabeth Papp Kamali

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• This book explores the role of mens rea, broadly defined as a factor in jury assessments of guilt and innocence from the early thirteenth through the ... Lees meer

Slavery on Trial

Jeannine Marie Delombard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave ... Lees meer

Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy

Paul Garfinkel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• By extending the chronological parameters of existing scholarship, and by focusing on legal experts' overriding and enduring concern with 'dangerous' ... Lees meer

Along Freedom Road

David S Cecelski

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, N... Lees meer

The Dreadful Word

Kristin A Olbertson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• This book, the first comprehensive study of criminal speech in eighteenth-century New England, traces how the criminalization, prosecution, and punish... Lees meer

Protecting the Best Men

Norman L Rosenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• From the trial of John Peter Zenger in the eighteenth century to the recent libel cases of William Westmoreland and Ariel Sharon, political defamation... Lees meer

The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law

Stefan Jurasinski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Some of the earliest examples of medieval canon law are penitentials - texts enumerating the sins a confessor might encounter among laypeople or other... Lees meer

Taming the Past

Robert W Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both t... Lees meer

Armed with Sword and Scales

Sascha Auerbach

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• In the mid-eighteenth century, author and magistrate Henry Fielding adjudicated cases of theft, assault, and public disorder from his London home on B... Lees meer

Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel

Assaf Likhovski

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• This book describes how a social-norms model of taxation rose and fell in British-ruled Palestine and the State of Israel in the mid-twentieth century... Lees meer

The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right

Sophia Z Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no... Lees meer

Law, Land, and Family

Eileen Spring

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the ... Lees meer

The Mormon Question

Sarah Barringer Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on ... Lees meer

Constituting Empire

Daniel J Hulsebosch

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• According to the traditional understanding of American constitutional law, the Revolution produced a new conception of the constitution as a set of re... Lees meer

Taming the Past

Robert W Gordon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both t... Lees meer

Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts

David Thomas Konig

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed f... Lees meer

Truth and Privilege

Lyndsay Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Truth and Privilege is a comparative study that brings together legal, constitutional and social history to explore the common law's diverging paths i... Lees meer

The Science of Proof

E Claire Cage

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• The Science of Proof traces the rise of forensic medicine in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and examines its implications for our unde... Lees meer