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

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

Inventing the Criminal

Richard F Wetzell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the la... Lees meer

Neighbors and Strangers

Bruce H Mann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Re... 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

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

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 Rule of Law

Richard a Cosgrove

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• So commonplace has the term rule of law become that few recognize its source as Dicey's Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution . Cos... Lees meer

Governing the Hearth

Michael Grossberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the f... Lees meer

Armed with Sword and Scales

Sascha Auerbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• 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

Inventing the Criminal

Richard F Wetzell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the la... 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 Autobiographical Notes of Charles Evans Hughes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History | nr. 5
• Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) was lawyer, governor of New York, Supreme Court Justice, presidential candidate in 1916, Secretary of State in the Ha... Lees meer

The People's Welfare

William J Novak

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state inte... 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

Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment

Richard F Hamm

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteen... Lees meer

Imperial Incarceration

Michael Lobban

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned with... Lees meer

Working Knowledge

Catherine L Fisk

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were the... Lees meer

The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

James Oldham

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Using voluminous trial notes and previously unexplored documents, Oldham provides a reappraisal of the judicial career of Lord Mansfield, chief justic... Lees meer

Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

James M Donovan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and int... Lees meer

Custom, Kinship, and Gifts to Saints

Stephen D White

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• White combines an intensive study of medieval law with insights from anthropology, religion, and social history to create a picture of French society ... Lees meer

Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

Edward James Kolla

• Paperback | 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

Almost Citizens

Sam Erman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898. A... Lees meer

Beyond the Prison Gates

Warren Rosenblum

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Legal History
• Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all level... Lees meer