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  • A Rape in the Early Republic

    Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial

    de Alexander Smyth ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth century, trials for rape were rare. Scanty court records typically lacked the detail needed to reconstruct the lives of those involved and evaluate the social and physical setting of the crime. Yet the events on that fateful day in 1806 would be the ... Leer más

    $20.49 USD

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  • Another Country, Another Life

    Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs

    de J. Patrick Boyer ...
    Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home — the remote wilderness of Muskoka — he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • In Brown's Wake

    Legacies of America's Educational Landmark

    de Martha Minow ...
    Series series Law and Current Events Masters
    What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements for equality in education across all lines of difference, including language, gender, disability, immigration status, socio-economic status, religion, and sexual orientation. Yet more than a half century ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

  • Labour Before the Law

    The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

    de Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Justice of Constantine

    Law, Communication, and Control

    de John Dillon ...
    Series series Law And Society In The Ancient World
    As the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great has long interested those studying the establishment of Christianity. But Constantine is also notable for his ability to control a sprawling empire and effect major changes. The Justice of Constantineexamines Constantine's judicial and administrative legislation and his efforts to maintain control over the imperial bureaucracy, to ... Leer más

    $50.39 USD

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

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Justice and Grace

    Private Petitioning and the English Parliament in the Late Middle Ages

    de Gwilym Dodd ...
    Focussing on the key role of the English medieval parliament in hearing and determining the requests of the king's subjects, this ground-breaking new study examines the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament (c.1270-1450). Until now, historians have focussed on the political and financial significance of the English medieval parliament; this book offers an important ... Leer más

    $112.49 USD

  • Abraham Lincoln, Esq.

    The Legal Career of America's Greatest President

    de Roger Billings, Frank J. Williams ...
    Lincoln scholars explore the president's law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution.As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Interpreting Constitutions

    A Comparative Study

    Edición de Jeffrey Goldsworthy ...
    This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the interpretive methods discussed are textualism, purposivism, structuralism and originalism. ... Leer más

    $58.49 USD

  • How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments

    The Sacramental Theology of Marriage from its Medieval Origins to the Council of Trent

    de Philip L. Reynolds ...
    Series series Law and Christianity
    Among the contributions of the medieval church to western culture was the idea that marriage was one of the seven sacraments, which defined the role of married folk in the church. Although it had ancient roots, this new way of regarding marriage raised many problems, to which scholastic theologians applied all their ingenuity. By the late Middle Ages, the doctrine was fully established in ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right

    de Sophia Z. Lee ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum - labor leaders, civil rights advocates and conservatives opposed to government regulation - set out to ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • A Passion for Justice

    How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer

    de J. Patrick Boyer ...
    This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer’s passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today.James Chalmers McRuer was not easy to get along with or even much liked by many lawyers who dubbed him ’Vinegar Jim.’ Yet countless others saw him ... Leer más

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