Legal history

How much economic freedom is a good thing?

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.

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.

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

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

This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic.

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 enforcement Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular legal significance: boilerplate, jailbait, pound of flesh, rainmaker, the third degree.

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This provocative book presents a theory of the First Amendment’s development.

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

Fred Korematsus decision to resist F.

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state.

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

This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910).

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.

Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (19311945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, traitors to the Han Chinese).

In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, key structural moments arise when a speaker shifts from rhyming heroic couplets to address the reader in prose, as well as in instances where prose is mentioned but not employed.

Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children.

The controversial 1922 Federal Baseball Supreme Court ruling held that the "e;business of base ball"e; was not subject to the Sherman Antitrust Act because it did not constitute interstate commerce.

In 1808 the legislature of the Louisiana territory appointed two men to translate the Digest of the Laws in Force in the Territory of Orleans (or, as it was called at the time, simply the Code) from the original French into English.

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformFlorida Historical Society Rembert Patrick AwardIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v.

Honorable Mention: Robert L.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor.

Can faith-based counselors be held to the same standard of legal accountability as secular ones?

Learn about the most important legal milestones in history in The Law Book.

Courtrooms and contracts.

Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration has come under fire for its methods of combating terrorism.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor.

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law.

A strong and lively defense of substantive due process.

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.

In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak.

Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital difficulties in the New Hampshire Gazette-a more common practice for the time and place than contemporary readers might think.

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom.

Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life.

The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life.

Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery.

How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern?

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population.

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate.

With Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world.

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law.

Why should the law care about enforcing contracts?

Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation.

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of historical perspectives on justice, equity, and equality, which have been, and still are, considered as the core values of any balanced political system.

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal.

The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation.