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Speculation
A History of the Fine Line Between Gambling and Investing
Inbunden, 2017
301 kr
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What is the difference between a speculator and a gambler? This simple question, reminiscent of an old joke, lies at the heart of one of the most fraught issues within the American economy. And with it come more questions, equally distressing: how can we tell the difference between a good …
Speculation
A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing
E-bok, 2016
214 kr
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What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including …
Speculation
A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing
E-bok, 2016
214 kr
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What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including …
The Decline of Natural Law
How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped
Inbunden, 2021
552 kr
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An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation.Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their …
Decline of Natural Law
How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped
E-bok, 2021
495 kr
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An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation. Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their …
Decline of Natural Law
How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped
E-bok, 2021
495 kr
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An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation. Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their …
The Most Powerful Court in the World
A History of the Supreme Court of the United States
Inbunden, 2025
424 kr
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An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution. Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black …
Most Powerful Court in the World
A History of the Supreme Court of the United States
E-bok, 2024
390 kr
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An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world''s oldest constitution. Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black …
Most Powerful Court in the World
A History of the Supreme Court of the United States
E-bok, 2024
390 kr
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An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world''s oldest constitution. Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black …
The Baseball Trust
A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
Häftad, 2015
751 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free …
The Baseball Trust
A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
Inbunden, 2013
921 kr
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The Baseball Trust is about the origins and persistence of baseball's exemption from antitrust law, which is one of the most curious features of our legal system and also one of the most well known to sports fans. Every other sport, like virtually every other kind of business, is governed by the …
Baseball Trust
A History of Baseball''s Antitrust Exemption
E-bok, 2013
510 kr
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The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labor conflict between players and owners, or when a team wants to move to a new city. And if the majority of Americans have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, most know one thing about it-that …
Baseball Trust
A History of Baseball''s Antitrust Exemption
E-bok, 2013
510 kr
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The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labor conflict between players and owners, or when a team wants to move to a new city. And if the majority of Americans have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, most know one thing about it-that …
Anglo-American Securities Regulation
Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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This book examines the regulation of the earliest securities markets in England and the United States, from their origins in the 1690s until the 1850s. Professor Banner argues that during the reign of Queen Anne a complex and moderately effective body of regulatory control was already extant, …
Anglo-American Securities Regulation
Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860
Inbunden, 1998
2113 kr
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This book examines the regulation of the earliest securities markets in England and the United States, from their origins in the 1690s until the 1850s. Professor Banner argues that during the reign of Queen Anne a complex and moderately effective body of regulatory control was already extant, …
Death Penalty
An American History
Häftad, 2003
336 kr
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The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person’s life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes often obscures its long and varied history in …
How the Indians Lost Their Land
Law and Power on the Frontier
Häftad, 2007
324 kr
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Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of …
Possessing the Pacific
Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
Inbunden, 2007
429 kr
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During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, …
Who Owns the Sky?
The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On
Inbunden, 2008
384 kr
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In the summer of 1900, a zeppelin stayed aloft for a full eighteen minutes above Lake Constance and mankind found itself at the edge of a new world. Where many saw hope and the dawn of another era, one man saw a legal conundrum. Charles C. Moore, an obscure New York lawyer, began an inquiry that …
American Property
A History of How, Why, and What We Own
Inbunden, 2011
384 kr
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In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation’s proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property?The question is at the heart of many contemporary …
