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The Eye of the Law

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1134028105
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Eye of the Law written by Michael Stolleis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial judge of the Underworld, the Eye of God watching past, present and future, the Eye of the Prince, guiding his subjects, to the almighty Eye of the Law. While our belief in the law may have become brittle, nothing escapes what is now the Eye of Big Brother. ‘In the Name of the Law’ takes up the various formulas used to legitimate the decisions of the courts, from the times of absolutism over the 19th century until today. The speaker who speaks in the name of a higher being underlines his function: his authority comes from above. And it is ‘in the name of’ god, king, people, state, nation, or law, that a weak, earthly, justice receives its support.

The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

Author : Morton J. HORWITZ
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038789
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 written by Morton J. HORWITZ and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States. Horwitz's subtle and sophisticated explanation of societal change begins with the common law, which was intended to provide justice for all. The great breakpoint came after 1790 when the law was slowly transformed to favor economic growth and development. The courts spurred economic competition instead of circumscribing it. This new instrumental law flourished as the legal profession and the mercantile elite forged a mutually beneficial alliance to gain wealth and power. The evolving law of the early republic interacted with political philosophy, Horwitz shows. The doctrine of laissez-faire, long considered the cloak for competition, is here seen as a shield for the newly rich. By the 1840s the overarching reach of the doctrine prevented further distribution of wealth and protected entrenched classes by disallowing the courts very much power to intervene in economic life. This searching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to the real world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the law as an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in a stunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution and reform.

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History;

Author : John Henry Wigmore
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344326912
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History; written by John Henry Wigmore and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Essays in Law and History

Author : Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1886363137
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Law and History written by Sir William Searle Holdsworth and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury, editors of the last four volumes of Holdsworth's History of English Law, this volume presents a selection of seventeen essays by the great legal scholar. Highlights from his long and prolific career, they address such topics as martial law, the English constitution, case law, equity, trusts, libel, law reporting, contracts and land law. "These essays tend to enlarge the mind and to stir the imagination. They are the work of one of the most distinguished of the great line of English legal historians." --Bernard L. Shientag, Columbia Law Review 47 (1947) 1255 WILLIAM S. HOLDSWORTH [1871-1944] was a professor of constitutional law at Cambridge from 1903-1908 and the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1922-1944. He is well-known for his monumental History of English Law (1st ed. 1908) and other works, such as Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1929) and Some Makers of English Law (1938). ARTHUR LEHMAN GOODHARD [1891-1978] was an American-born British academic jurist and lawyer. He was editor of the Cambridge Law Journal from 1921 to 1925, editor the Law Quarterly Review in 1926, a professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1931-1951 and the first American to be the master of an Oxford College. HAROLD GREVILLE HANBURY [1898-1993] was a Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1921-1949 and All Souls College, Oxford, from 1949-1964. His works include Modern Equity: Being the Principles of Equity (1935), The Principles of Agency (1952) and The Vinerian Chair and Legal Education (1958).

Feminist Legal History

Author : Tracy A. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814784266
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Legal History written by Tracy A. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history is driven by a commitment to uncover women's legal agency and how women, both historically and currently, use law to obtain individual and societal empowerment. Feminist Legal History represents feminist legal historians' efforts to define their field, by showcasing historical research and analysis that demonstrates how women were denied legal rights, how women used the law proactively to gain rights, and how, empowered by law, women worked to alter the law to try to change gendered realities. Encompassing two centuries of American history, thirteen original essays expose the many ways in which legal decisions have hinged upon ideas about women or gender as well as the ways women themselves have intervened in the law, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's notion of a legal class of gender to the deeply embedded inequities involved in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, a 2007 Supreme Court pay discrimination case. Contributors: Carrie N. Baker, Felice Batlan, Tracey Jean Boisseau, Eileen Boris, Richard H. Chused, Lynda Dodd, Jill Hasday, Gwen Hoerr Jordan, Maya Manian, Melissa Murray, Mae C. Quinn, Margo Schlanger, Reva Siegel, Tracy A. Thomas, and Leti Volpp

Essays in Jurisprudence and Legal History

Author : Sir John William Salmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Jurisprudence and Legal History written by Sir John William Salmond and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taming the Past

Author : Robert W. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193230
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Taming the Past written by Robert W. Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.

Lectures on Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays

Author : James Barr Ames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
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Download or read book Lectures on Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays written by James Barr Ames and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays in legal history read before the International Congress of Historical Studies held in London in 1913

Author : Paul Vinogradoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Essays in legal history read before the International Congress of Historical Studies held in London in 1913 written by Paul Vinogradoff and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Legal History and its Sources

Author : David Ibbetson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108716345
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book English Legal History and its Sources written by David Ibbetson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume honours the work and writings of Professor Sir John Baker over the past fifty years, presenting a collection of essays by leading scholars on topics relating to the sources of English legal history, the study of which Sir John has so much advanced. The essays range from the twelfth century to the nineteenth, considering courts (central and local), the professions (both common law and civilian), legal doctrine, learning, practice, and language, and the cataloguing of legal manuscripts. The sources addressed include court records, reports of litigation (in print and in manuscript), abridgements, fee books and accounts, conveyances and legal images. The volume advances understanding of the history of the common law and its sources, and by bringing together essays on a range of topics, approaches and periods, underlines the richness of material available for the study of the history of English law and indicates avenues for future research.

Law Books in Action

Author : Angela Fernandez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184731922X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Law Books in Action written by Angela Fernandez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular.

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History

Author : Association of American Law Schools
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
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Download or read book Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History written by Association of American Law Schools and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History: VOLUME TWO (CONTINUED)

Author : Association of American Law Schools
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
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Download or read book Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History: VOLUME TWO (CONTINUED) written by Association of American Law Schools and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays in Legal History

Author : Paul Vinogradoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Legal History written by Paul Vinogradoff and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History: A prologue to a history of English law

Author : Association of American Law Schools
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
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Download or read book Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History: A prologue to a history of English law written by Association of American Law Schools and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fourteenth Amendment

Author : William E. Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674041424
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The Fourteenth Amendment written by William E. Nelson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkably fresh and historically grounded reinterpretation of the American Constitution, William Nelson argues that the fourteenth amendment was written to affirm the general public's long-standing rhetorical commitment to the principles of equality and individual rights on the one hand, and to the principle of local self-rule on the other.

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law

Author : William Eves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108960448
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law written by William Eves and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal History Conference. These essays explore patterns in legal norms, processes, and practice across an exceptionally broad chronological and geographical range. Carefully selected to provide a network of inter-connections, they contribute to our better understanding of legal history by combining depth of analysis with historical contextualization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.