Legal history

A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscape   This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today.

An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system.

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews’ integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The 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.

Rewriting the Supreme Court's landmark gay rights decision Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v.

In America today, a public official's lawful income consists of a salary.

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness.

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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 culture When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial—dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances—that first comes to mind.

In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M.

Taiwans modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the Peoples Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895.

No ha habido quizás en Europa otro periodo histórico en el que la ciencia jurídica desempeñara un papel tan relevante como durante la vigencia de la Constitución de Weimar.

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world’s understanding of group rights.

How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution In this innovative book demonstrating the important role of eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo offers a prehistory of police legitimacy in a period that predates the establishment of the modern police force.

The Choson state (13921910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms.

The definitive history of the marriage equality debate in the United States, praised by Library Journal as "beautifully and accessibly written.

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American historyFor over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court.

The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive.

In this bold and timely work, law professor Jeffrey Shulman argues that the United States Constitution does not protect a fundamental right to parent.

From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies, this book traces the path of crucial constitutional test cases during the years from 1933 to 1937.

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain.

This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives.

This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the 'security society' which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly.

Almost since the beginning of the republic, America's rigorous separation of powers among Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches has been umpired by the federal judiciary.

Law is integral to culture, and culture to law.

Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siecle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance'.

This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical and legal humanism.

When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions.

This volume considers the use of impeachment within a global context.

In 1975, Dr.

The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century.

This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

Sex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated.

Can a free press survive in an era of free content?

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

A newly updated edition of "e;the most readable and succinct account of the origins, the development, and the philosophy of the civil law"e; (Houston Law Review).

Enter the world of Modern History and meet the people who braved the open seas in search of new lands and adventures.

Why should your child take the time to study ancient history when it's long gone and done?

Do you know who Barry Obama is?

Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v.

Read about the Industrial Revolution and how that societal shift has affected millions of lives.

In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Did you know that aside from being the longest river in the world, the Nile is also very important in the History of Egypt?

How did the United States of America become a powerful nation?

In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution.

John Sassoon's study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical.

Fernando examines important aspects of the drafting of 1957 Federation of Malaya constitution related to the system of governance, division of legislative and executive powers, the conceptualisation of citizenship and the roles of the judiciary and election commission.

The focus of this collection of articles by Donald J.