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Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
Inbunden, 2009
1499 kr
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More than 700 concise biographies of leading figures in the history of American law, from the colonial era to the present dayThis book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of …
Colorado Doctrine
Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier
Av David Schorr
Inbunden, 2012
1026 kr
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Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the “appropriation doctrine,” a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, …
Power and Justice in Medieval England
The Law of Patronage and the Royal Courts
Inbunden, 2022
556 kr
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How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy—an “advowson”—was one of the most important rights in medieval England. The king, the monasteries, and local landowners all wanted to control advowsons …
Lawtalk
The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions
Av James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. Thornburg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
908 kr
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Not just for lawyers, these illuminating histories of popular law-related expressions will delight anyone fascinated by words, by history, or by law and law enforcementLaw-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular …
Creating the Administrative Constitution
The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law
Häftad, 2012
874 kr
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This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Jerry Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning Congress delegated vast discretion to administrative officials and armed them with extrajudicial adjudicatory, …
Against the Profit Motive
The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940
Häftad, 2013
806 kr
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In America today, a public official’s lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently provided for officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a percentage of each evasion uncovered. …
Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits
The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy
Av Jessica Lake
Inbunden, 2016
840 kr
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A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesDrawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without …
Origins of Reasonable Doubt
Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial
Häftad, 2016
251 kr
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To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of …
Inventing American Exceptionalism
The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877
Häftad, 2017
752 kr
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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 cultureWhen Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial—dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers …
To Save the Country
A Lost Treatise on Martial Law
Av Francis Lieber, G. Norman Lieber m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
556 kr
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A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergencyThe last work of Abraham Lincoln’s law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost—until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber’s manuscript on emergency powers and …
Oscar Wilde on Trial
The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment
Inbunden, 2022
882 kr
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The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency” Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure in history, the two trials of Oscar Wilde for committing acts of “gross indecency” occurred at the …
Interbellum Constitution
Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
Inbunden, 2024
456 kr
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A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent a profound transformation. These decades of the …
Empire of Laws
Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy
Inbunden, 2023
736 kr
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A compelling reexamination of how Britain used law to shape its empire For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years’ War …
Origins of Order
Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2021
565 kr
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An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and historyWestern accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a …
Memory and Authority
The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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From one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court’s current embrace of originalism is only the most …
Memory and Authority
The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation
Inbunden, 2024
1532 kr
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From one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court’s current embrace of originalism is only the most …
Marital Privilege
Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law
Inbunden, 2025
408 kr
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How the privileged legal status of marriage survived decades of constitutional struggle and social change The United States is unusual among wealthy western nations in the degree to which the law channels public benefits and private economic resources through marriage. This remains so despite …
Against Constitutional Originalism
A Historical Critique
Häftad, 2025
209 kr
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A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority “What are the chances that, in 2024, a new book could fundamentally reorient how we understand America’s founding? Jonathan …
Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History
Av John B. Nann, Morris L. Cohen
Häftad, 2018
336 kr
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The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultural history often encounter legal issues that …
Origins of Order
Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
Av Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 2019
417 kr
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An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and historyWestern accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a …
