Legal history

Rhode Island has a long history of constitutional governance.

For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life.

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day.

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Judges, courts, and scholars in the United States agree that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but there is much disagreement about its meaning.

Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny.

A Malayan White Mischief.

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile reformatory system.

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile reformatory system.

In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea.

In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea.

The period from the fifteenth century to the late eighteenth century was one of critical importance to British constitutionalism.

Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.

Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.

The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty.

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason.

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason.

Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land.

This edition does not include illustrations.

This Edition does not include illustrations.

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On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden.

'Justine' was the Marquis de Sade's first novella, written in 1787, whilst imprisoned for two weeks in the Bastille.

William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present.

This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.

Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time magazine as "e;one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes,"e; Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse.

The harrowing true story of the young boy who captured the heart of the nation when he testified in court, to find justice against those responsible for his brother's death.

'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict.

The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the 'Maguire Seven' wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.

The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of "e;gross indecency"e; Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure in history, the two trials of Oscar Wilde for committing acts of "e;gross indecency"e; occurred at the height of his fame.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians.

A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner In his fascinating debut, Matthew Lockwood explores the history of crime, homicide, and suicide in England over four centuries through the office of the coroner.

The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages.

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent—to court.

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 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.

During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases.

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

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.

How much economic freedom is a good thing?