Legal History category: 1513 books
Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
The 1805 New York foxhunting case Pierson v. Post has long been used in American property law classrooms to introduce law students to the concept of first possession by asking how one establishes possession of a wild animal. In this book, Professor Angela Fernandez retells the history of the famous...
Law in America
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
“Law in America is a little gem. It is a peerless introduction to our legal history—concise, clear, tellingly told, and beautifully written. The greatest living historian of American law has done it again.”
—Stanley N. Katz,
former president of the American Society for Legal History and the...
The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I
In Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland’s legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and with them...
by M. T.
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: 82%, 18 Punkte, University of Hull, language: English, abstract: According to the first Article of the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) human dignity shall be inviolable: 'Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar'....
Latin American Law
A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Private law touches every aspect of people's daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private property, marriage and family relations, contracts, employment, and business dealings—and the court records and legal documents produced under private law are a rich source of information for anyone researching...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Lori Chambers’ fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice...
The Long, Lingering Shadow
Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States,...
The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas
Empire and Legal Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americas. The Hidden History of International Law in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Spanish legal culture, developed during the Spanish...
by Peter Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe....
Imprisoned by the Past
Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penaltyconnects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey. By highlighting the relation between American history and an individual case, Imprisoned by the Past provides a unique understanding of the big...
Mrs. Dred Scott
A Life on Slavery's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and...
Law and Memory
Towards Legal Governance of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Legal governance of memory has played a central role in establishing hegemony of monumental history, and has forged national identities and integration processes in Europe and beyond. In this book, a range of contributors explore both the nature and role of legal engagement into historical memory...
Creating Legal Worlds
Story and Style in a Culture of Argument
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument.
Through careful analyses of notable cases...