Legal History category: 1513 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become increasingly...
by Paul M. Pruitt Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
NEW FIELD, NEW CORN is an anthology of research papers that explore a range of topics from the rich legal history of the state of Alabama and its influential legal and judicial figures. Contemporary photography and mapwork are featured as well.
“Alabama legal history can be surprising. Usually,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until...
Lawyers and Savages
Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism,...
by John A. Neuenschwander
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "a method of recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal document that is "made available in different forms to other users, researchers, and the public." Ordinarily such an academic process would seem...
Feminist Legal History
Essays on Women and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women’s interests. At its core, the nascent field of...
Law, Society, and History
Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All of them have been influenced by the eminent and prolific legal historian, legal sociologist and scholar of comparative law, Lawrence M. Friedman. Not just a Festschrift of essays...
Women and Justice for the Poor
A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered...
Contract and Consent
Representation and the Jury in Anglo-American Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J. R. Pole posits that legal history has become highly specialized, while mainstream political and social historians frequently ignore cases that figure prominently in the legal literature. Pole makes a start at remedying the situation with a series...
Welfare's Forgotten Past
A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The study of Canadian legal history has seen a remarkable growth in the past decade, nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada. Given its early settlement and some of the liberties taken with legal procedure there - as well as some creative interpretations of English law – the region is ripe for close...
Making Legal History
Approaches and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods...
by G. Edward White
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent legal scholar G. Edward...
A History of Canadian Legal Thought
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority on the history of Canadian legal thought.
Frank...