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Joann M. Ross, John R. Wunder

Review "This is a well-balanced book with innovative essays by outstanding scholars. It might seem specialized, but the e...

Forgotten tribes: unrecognized Indians and the federal acknowledgment process

Mark Edwin Miller

Review “Miller’s well-researched book is a significant contribution to the literature on the federal acknowle...

Law and identity in mandate Palestine

Assaf Likhovski

Review "Convincing. . . . [Likhovski] writes on a complex subject in an engaging style, and he brings a wealth of informa...

English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law (Studies in Legal History)

Robert C. Palmer

Review This is a big, bold, and very important book about the effects of the Black Death.(American Journal of Legal Histo...

Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law: From Aquinas to International Human Rights

C. Fred Alford

Review "A fresh and thoughtful exploration of the concept of human rights in light of natural law theory. Using the UN De...

The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2: From ''Higher Law'' to ''Sectarian Scruples''

James Hitchcock

Review Hitchcock's work offers timely admonition to those who are concerned about religion, politics, and society. As chu...

The German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany

Marilyn Shevin Coetzee

Review The author adds significantly to our social, historical and political knowledge of Germany in the early 20th centu...

The memory of judgment: making law and history in the trials of the holocaust

Lawrence Douglas

Review "A worthy participant in the debate begun by Hannah Arend. . . a very good book about a very important topic." ...

Ancient Laws and Modern Problems: The Balance Between Justice and a Legal System

John Sassoon

Ancient Laws and Modern Problems: The Balance Between Justice and a Legal System...

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract

Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell

Review The work presents a refreshing take on the cases examined.Anthony Lo SurdoAustralian Banking and Finance Law Bulle...

Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

Richard Godbeer

Review "Richard Godbeer's Escaping Salem is a thoughtful and lively retelling of a 'forgotten' witchcraft case. The stron...

In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice

Susan F. Hirsch

Review Susan Hirsch has turned [her] experience into a powerful book, one fully engaged with her experience of grief and ...

What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America

Ariela J. Gross

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Through a close reading of racial identity trials in America, this book offers an ...

Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Studies in Legal History)

Douglas Hay

Review "A growing amount of attention has been paid to the question of master and servant legislation in England. . . . M...

Target: Prime Time: Advocacy Groups and the Struggle Over Entertainment Television (Communication & Society)

Kathryn C. Montgomery

Review "An excellent book that provides an important addition to the pressure group framework. Montgomery's book is acce...

Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic

Christopher L. Tomlins

Review "Characterized by the same impeccable research and analytical rigor as the State and the Unions, Tomlin's latest w...

Constitutional Brinksmanship: Amending the Constitution by National Convention

Russell L. Caplan

Review "In this book, Russell Caplan has provided the first modern scholarly volume on the national constitutional conven...

An Unruly Child: A History of Law in Australia

Bruce Kercher

About the Author Bruce Kercher is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University and has published widely in the histo...

The Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume 1: Early America (1580–1815)

Christopher Tomlins, Michael Grossberg

Review "Grossberg and Tomlin present this fine edited collection of essays on the law in the US...The chapter authors, le...

Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich (Onati International Series in Law and Society)

Marc Hertogh

Review This volume is a scholarly and highly commendable contribution to the study of Ehrlich's thought and is likely to ...

Roman Canon Law in Reformation England (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History)

R. H. Helmholz

Review "Richard Helmholz is one scholar who is both aware of those riches and skilled in exploiting them, while nimbly av...

The Indian Reorganization Act: Congresses and Bills

Vine Deloria

About the Author Vine Deloria, Jr., Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona, is the author of a number ...

The Unpublished Opinions of the Burger Court

Bernard Schwartz

Review "Presents invaluable fragments of information about the workings of the Supreme Court of the US....The author offe...

Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging

Brian Z. Tamanaha

Review Tamanaha has written a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the rise of judicial realism. . . . Stro...

A History and Theory of Informed Consent

Tom L. Beauchamp, Ruth R. Faden

Review "It ought to become a landmark synthesis in the literature of this important idea in bioethics and law."--Journal ...

Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature

Kieran Dolin

Review "Dolin's analyses are insightful and thoroughly researched. They will undoubtedly inspire others to return to fami...

Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth

Marjorie Heins

From Publishers Weekly Wouldn't Edward Lear have been startled to learn that in 1998 his poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" ...

Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

Theodor Meron

From Library Journal Meron, a scholar of international law who has published books on human rights and international law ...

Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

Paul Brand

Review "This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the enactment and enforcement of the two most important English s...

Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe

Antoni Vaquer, Hector L. Macqueen, Santiago Espiau Espiau

Book Description Regions within EU member states such as Scotland and Catalonia have their own legal systems: how will th...

Drittbeteiligung am Schuldverhältnis: Studien zur Geschichte und Dogmatik des Privatrechts

Jan Dirk Harke

From the Back Cover Für eine Drittbeteiligung am Schuldverhältnis sorgen verschiedene Institute, die in den Aug...

Language and Power in Court: A Linguistic Analysis of the O.J. Simpson Trial

Janet Cotterill

Review 'Language and Power in Court is a riveting treatment of the many ways that linguistics applies to a criminal case....

The Nuremberg Legacy: How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History

Norbert Ehrenfreund

Review "An effective history and study of the impact of such powerful procedures on the modern world" - Library Journal&#...

White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929

George Robb

Book Description This is the first full-scale treatment to have been written of white-collar crime in Victorian and Edwar...

John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History)

Rose Melikan

Review 'This is a political biography as it used to be written, with facts given, not theories argued and all is thorough...

The Legal Mind: Essays For Tony Honoré

Neil Maccormick, Peter Birks

About the Author Neil MacCormick is at Edinburgh University. Peter Birks is at University of Southampton. ...

The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law And the Legal Professions

Mary Jane Mossman

Review Mossman's The First Women Lawyers offers a pinnacle achievement, both in depth of biographical and legal case inqu...

The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare

John E. Lopatka, William H. Page

Review “[Page and Lopatka] present a detailed summary of the parties'' strategies and of the legal decisions (prima...

A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State

Max M. Edling

Review "An important work on the origins of the U.S. Constitution. --New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century "A book ...

The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law: The British Experience

Lionel Bently, Brad Sherman

Review "This book is full of new ideas and methods. As such, it will serve as a model and stimulus for further scholarly ...

The Making of the Modern Law of Defamation

Paul Mitchell

Review The Making of the Modern Law of Defamation is an excellent piece of work and a welcome addition to the literature ...

Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 1

John Tiley

Review They [the sixteen papers are all, in their quite different ways, a good read, and they all provoke a desire to kno...

Ghosts of Halabja: Saddam Hussein and the Kurdish Genocide (Praeger Security International)

Michael J. Kelly

Book Description This work chronicles the story of the Kurdish genocide that was not told during the trial of Saddam Hussei...

The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion

Thomas E. S.J. Buckley

Review "In the process of teaching us everything there is to know about divorce in antebellum Virginia, Thomas Buckley te...

A History of the County Court, 1846-1971 (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History)

Patrick Polden

Review "Based on an exhaustive reading of the extant correspondence of the Lord Chancellor's Office, a broad sweep of par...

Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England

Dana Rabin

About the Author Dana Rabin is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...

A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes

Frederick Allen

From the Publisher Frederick Allen, a former political editor and columnist with the Atlanta Constitution and commentator...

Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution

Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell

Review useful insights into the role some cases played in bringing the law of restitution to where it is todayDavid Cappe...

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