Legal history

As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with Americas most confrontational activists.

Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society.

Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

A generation ago, all of the big questions concerning religious freedom in America seemed to have been resolved.

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980.

In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence.

One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity.

The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (18941949) became one of the Courts leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation.

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and adroitly manipulated his own and other people's land.

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and adroitly manipulated his own and other people's land.

The Laws Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellors court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.

From the Mormon Churchs public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the Mormon question debated central questions of constitutional law.

The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change.

As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the worlds first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders.

In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru.

Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel.

As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with Americas most confrontational activists.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution.

In this first comprehensive study of womens property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on womens lives.

Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society.

Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development.

Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D.

Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel.

The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of nations.

The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of nations.

Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Jura - Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtssoziologie, Rechtsgeschichte, Note: 1,1, Universität Münster, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wer in Deutschland durch ein Strafgericht verurteilt wird, erhält einen Eintrag im sogenannten Bundeszentralregister.

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The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yales past and with the social climate in which they lived.

As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the worlds first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders.

In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence.

Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers.

One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity.

The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yales past and with the social climate in which they lived.

In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru.

The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (18941949) became one of the Courts leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation.

Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers.

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980.

From the Mormon Churchs public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the Mormon question debated central questions of constitutional law.

The Laws Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellors court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.

The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change.

A generation ago, all of the big questions concerning religious freedom in America seemed to have been resolved.

This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party.

This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party.

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, 'Questions relative to Hereditary Right', discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner.

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