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  • Roman Law in the State of Nature

    The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law

    de Benjamin Straumann ...
    Series Libro 108 - Ideas in Context
    Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The ... Leer más

    $30.39 USD

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  • Uncle Sam Wants You

    World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • A House in Gross Disorder

    Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven

    de Cynthia B. Herrup ...
    Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But 17th century England saw a sex scandal that brought disgrace to the ruling class and ended with the beheading of an earl. In A House in Gross Disorder, Cynthia Herrup presents a strikingly new interpretation of the case of the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and of the sexual ... Leer más

    $30.59 USD

  • Madeleine's Children

    Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies

    de Sue Peabody ...
    Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries. As a child, Madeleine was pawned ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • 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

  • 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 License to Steal

    The Forfeiture of Property

    de Leonard W. Levy ...
    Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society. Arguing that civil forfeiture is unconstitutional, Levy provides examples of the victimization of innocent people and demonstrates that it has been used primarily against petty offienders rather than ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Signposts

    New Directions in Southern Legal History

    de Alfred L. Brophy, Charles L. Zelden, Christopher Schmidt, Christopher Waldrep, Cynthia Nicoletti, Jennifer M. Spear, Jessica Lowe, Laura F. Edwards, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Peter Wallenstein, Roman J. Hoyos0, Susan Richbourg Parker1, Thomas N. Ingersoll2, Tim Alan Garrison3, Sally E. Hadden5, Patricia Hagler Minter7, James W. Ely Jr.8 ...
    In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely ... Leer más

    $69.29 USD

  • The Tragedy of Religious Freedom

    de Marc O. DeGirolami ...
    When it comes to questions of religion, legal scholars face a predicament. They often expect to resolve dilemmas according to general principles of equality, neutrality, or the separation of church and state. But such abstractions fail to do justice to the untidy welter of values at stake. Offering new views of how to understand and protect religious freedom in a democracy, The Tragedy of ... Leer más

    $51.29 USD

  • The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution

    de John W. Compton ...
    The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal government, increased regulation of the economy, and eroded property protections. John Compton offers a surprising revision of this familiar narrative, showing that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestants, not New Deal reformers, paved the way ... Leer más

    $51.29 USD

  • The Law of the Whale Hunt

    Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780–1880

    de Robert Deal ...
    Series series Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    Whale oil lit the cities and greased the machines of the Industrial Revolution. In light of its importance, competition between whalers was high. Far from courts and law enforcement, competing crews of American whalers not known for their gentility and armed with harpoons tended to resolve disputes at sea over ownership of whales. Left to settle arguments on their own, whalemen created norms and ... Leer más

    $38.59 USD

  • Lawyers and Savages

    Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology

    de Kaius Tuori ...
    Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD