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  • Justice in Lüritz

    Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany

    by Inga Markovits ...
    As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had finally found her mailbox. Combining her work in this extraordinary ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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    Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Genna Rae McNeil, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. ...
    "A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the ForewordCharles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American law and society. A brilliant lawyer and educator, he laid much of the legal foundation for the landmark civil ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

    by Andrew M. Riggsby ...
    In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the rest of Roman life. Emphasising basic concepts, he recounts its historical development and focuses in particular on the later Republic and early centuries of the Roman Empire. The volume is designed as an introductory work, with brief chapters ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Uncle Sam Wants You

    World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

    by Christopher Capozzola ...
    Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Classical Liberal Constitution

    The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law

    by Kevin Jon Heller ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs). The judgments the NMTs produced have played a critical role in the development of international criminal law, particularly in terms of how courts currently understand war crimes, ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • William Blackstone

    Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century

    by Wilfrid Prest ...
    Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions to English politics, law, education, and culture through involvements in legal practice, Parliament, and the University of Oxford. Throughout he also remained engaged in his society's literary and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Law's Conscience

    Equitable Constitutionalism in America

    by Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    The Law’s Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor’s court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Peter Hoffer argues that equity embodies a way of looking at law, including constitutions, based on ideas of mutual fairness, public trusteeship, and equal ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Iniuria and the Common Law

    Edited by Dr Eric Descheemaeker, Professor Helen Scott ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    The delict of iniuria is among the most sophisticated products of the Roman legal tradition. The original focus of the delict was assault, although iniuria-literally a wrong or unlawful act-indicated a very wide potential scope. Yet it quickly grew to include sexual harassment and defamation, and by the first century CE it had been re-oriented around the concept of contumelia so as to incorporate ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Thousandth Man

    A Biography of James McGregor Stewart

    by Barry Cahill ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war period, he was the first Maritimer to serve as president of the Canadian Bar Association. He ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Keeping Faith with the Constitution

    by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, Christopher H. Schroeder ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Article 370

    A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir

    by A.G. Noorani ...
    On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India came into force with a unique provision—Article 370. The special status accorded to the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the article meant that its people lived under a different set of laws while being part of the Indian Union. Alternating deftly between history and politics, A.G. Noorani examines a wide range of documents pertaining to Article 370. He ... Read more

    $28.49 USD