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  • History and Power in the Study of Law

    New Directions in Legal Anthropology

    Edited by June Starr, Jane F. Collier ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed ... Read more

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  • The Harm in Hate Speech

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series Book 10 - The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 2009.
    For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. ... Read more

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  • The Second Amendment

    A Biography

    by Michael Waldman ...
    The life story of the most controversial, volatile, and misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights and “a welcome re-injection of historical context into the present debate over the rightful role of guns in American culture” (Chicago Tribune).At a time of increasing gun violence in America, Waldman’s book provoked a wide range of discussion. This book looks at history to provide some surprising ... Read more

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  • The Nuremberg Trials

    The Nazis brought to justice

    by Alexander Macdonald ...
    At 10.00 am on 20 November 1945, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, the presiding judge at the first of the Nuremberg Trials, opened proceedings at what he described as a trial that was 'unique in the history of jurisprudence'.What followed were 11 days of accusations and rebuttals that would determine the fate of 21 Nazi leaders and see the indictment of three others in their absence. The charges against ... Read more

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  • Reconstructing Contracts

    by Douglas G. Baird ...
    Every legal system must decide how to distinguish between agreements that are enforceable and those that are not. Formal bargains in the marketplace and casual promises in a social setting mark the two extremes, but many hard cases lie between. When gaps are left in a contract, how should courts fill them? What does it mean to say that an agreement is legally enforceable? If someone breaks a ... Read more

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  • A Search for Sovereignty

    Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900

    by Lauren Benton ...
    A Search for Sovereignty approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, piracy, convict transportation, martial law, and ... Read more

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  • Who Are the Criminals?

    The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan

    by John Hagan ...
    How Americans came to fear street crime too much—and corporate crime too littleHow did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a ... Read more

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  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Read more

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  • The Criminalization of Abortion in the West

    Its Origins in Medieval Law

    by Wolfgang P. Müller ...
    Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the Western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranting retribution; on the other, there is the juristic definition of "crime" in the modern sense of the ... Read more

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  • Wasting a Crisis

    Why Securities Regulation Fails

    by Paul G. Mahoney ...
    The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010—the main regulatory reform package introduced in the United States—also shared with New Deal reforms the assumption that the underlying cause of the crisis was ... Read more

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  • The Odd Clauses

    Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions

    by Jay Wexler ...
    Take a hilariously entertaining tour through the lesser-known—and sometimes absurd!—clauses of the United States Constitution for fascinating insights on American history and constitutional law.If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of ... Read more

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    Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties ... Read more

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