Legal history

Using a thematic approach to American law and legal history, The Common Law Tradition in America introduces readers to the scholars, judges, and critics who made the law at once a stable source of rules and a dynamic system capable of responding to social and economic changes.

The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion.

In the late nineteenth century the United States oversaw a great increase in extraterritorial claims, boundary disputes, extradition controversies, and transborder abduction and interdiction.

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Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

The story of how the advocacy of workers and labor unions and a monumental shift on the Supreme Court paved the way for fair labor standards in the United States.

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies.

The story of how the advocacy of workers and labor unions and a monumental shift on the Supreme Court paved the way for fair labor standards in the United States.

In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.

In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.

For almost two millennia, the island of Ireland has continued to have an impact on European and English-speaking Christianity and culture out of all proportion to its size and position.

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries.

For almost two millennia, the island of Ireland has continued to have an impact on European and English-speaking Christianity and culture out of all proportion to its size and position.

La presente obra aborda la formacion de la nocion juridica de servicio publico en el Derecho administrativo de Chile, Espana y Francia, en una perspectiva historica y comparada.