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Introduction to the Winner of the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal
Scholarship, 2005
Legal System of the
United States A History of Water P
Third Edition Rights at Common Law
Allan Farnsworth, formerly the Alfred McCormack Joshua Getzler, Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Hugh’s
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School College, Oxford
In this classic text, translated into over a dozen languages, ‘Getzler’s work will bring the reader as close as any
constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth
study could to what happened, and to what was in
provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal
system, analyzing the legislative and judicial systems on both the federal and the minds of those who made it happen.’
state levels. For decades, students of American law have relied on this lucid text — James Gordley, Law Quarterly Review
as an invaluable guide to basic case law and as a means of interpreting statutes,
differences between civil and criminal procedure, and the distinction between ‘The research is exhaustive and meticulously executed, and the resulting
private and public law. analysis is clearly and articulately communicated.’
— Charlotte Smith, Journal of Environmental Law
Oceana Publications
1996 (1951) This volume describes how the courts created rights for land owners and
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1996 / 210 pp transport. It covers the period from early times to the late nineteenth century,
illustrating the changing common law of property and tort, and throwing new
History of the Federal Courts light on the growth of the economy and the social and legal dimensions of
technological innovation.
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Oceana Publications Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law
Hardback / 0-379-21433-4 / 978-0-379-21433-8 / $125.00 R.W. Kostal, Associate Professor of Law and History,
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University of Western Ontario
Law without Justice A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression under
Why Criminal Law Doesn’t Give People martial law of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the explosive
debate and litigation these events spawned in England.The
What They Deserve book explores the centrality of legal ideas and institutions in
Paul H. Robinson, Colin S. Diver Distinguished Professor of English politics, and of political ideas that give rise to great
Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Michael T. questions of English law.
Cahill, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School It documents how the world’s most powerful and articulate political elite struggled
with fundamental questions about law, morality, and power. Can a constitutional state
If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, rule a sprawling empire without breaking faith with the rule of law? Can it contend
we are outraged.The legal system assures us, and we expect with the violent resistance of subjugated peoples without corrupting the integrity of
and demand, that it will seek to “do justice” in criminal cases. its legal and political ideals?
So why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and routinely sacrifice
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Cahill demonstrate that cases with unjust outcome are not always irregular or important conflict over martial law and the rule of law in the history of England in
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Justice challenges us to restore justice to the criminal justice system.
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England, France, and the United States
Michael Burrage, Research Fellow in Industrial Relations,
London School of Economics and Political Science
Examining the social revolutions in France, the United States,
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The American NE American Legal History The Pursuit of Fairness The World’s Richest Indian
A History of Affirmative Action The Scandal over Jackson Barnett’s Oil Fortune
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G. Edward White, University of Virginia Professor of Law and History,Vanderbilt University American prejudices.’ institutions devastated the considerable rights and resources of Jackson
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Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
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December 2006 / 640 pp The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy
‘This is an exceptional work that breaks new ground and contributes to
G. Edward White, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor,
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. New
our understanding not only of a specific case, but of the role of the
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University of Virginia School of Law
G. Edward White, University Professor both the study of law and the history of the West.’ ‘If you accept Hiss’s guilt, as most historians now do, you will profit from G.
Known as the ‘Great Dissenter,’ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the — Rennard Strickland, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, Edward White’s supplementary speculations about why, after prison, that
most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A University of Oregon serene and charming man sacrificed his marriage, exploited a son’s love and
brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was abused the trust of fervent supporters to wage a 42-year struggle for a
responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth In 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a Supreme Court decision of
monumental importance in defining the rights of indigenous peoples vindication that could never be honestly gained’
century. Now, in this superb short biography, G. Edward White offers readers a
lively, informative portrait of this singular individual.The book first sketches throughout the English-speaking world. At the heart of the decision for Johnson — Max Frankel,The New York Times Book Review
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School faculty, and spent 20 years as a judge on the Supreme Judicial Court of Robertson made a startling find; in the basement of a Pennsylvania furniture-
Massachusetts before being named to the U.S. Supreme Court.The author maker, he discovered a trunk with the complete corporate records of the
focuses on his remarkable 30-year service as a Supreme Court Justice, Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, the plaintiffs in Johnson v. M’Intosh.
beginning in 1902, and details Holmes’s most significant cases – Abrams v. Conquest by Law provides, for the first time, the complete and troubling
United States, Northern Securities Co. v. United States, Lochner v. New York, account of the European “discovery” of the Americas.This is a gripping tale of
Schenck v. United States, and others – which limited working hours, set a political collusion, detailing how a spurious claim gave rise to a doctrine--
mandatory minimum wage, protected women’s rights, legalized labor unions, intended to be of limited application--which itself gave rise to a massive
and defined freedom of speech.These decisions as well as The Common Law are displacement of persons and the creation of a law that governs indigenous
highly regarded to this day. people and their lands to this day.
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Partners for Democracy The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI Property and Civil Society in Litigation in Roman Law
Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur 1483-1558 South-Western Germany 1820-1914 Ernest Metzger, Senior Lecturer in Law,
Ray A. Moore, Professor of History and Asian Studies, Sir John Baker University of Aberdeen
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Based on extensive documentation from civil court records,
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In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States this book provides important new insights into the nature of
Sex and Law in Early Virginia trial.This view of relatively polite and orderly initiation of suits
and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring civil society, forms of social conflict, and the application of the
was based on tiny amounts of evidence. Metzger examines a
one of the world’s most successful and stable democracies. John Ruston Pagan law to everyday life.The book’s intriguing, sometimes bizarre,
flood of new evidence, painting a picture of litigation that is far
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Alfred L. Brophy Genocide on Trial A Casebook on Roman Family Law
Foreword by Randall Kennedy War Crimes Trials and the Formation of
The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West Bruce W. Frier, Professor of Classics and Roman Law,
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This book examines in what ways and how far medieval churches were treated as University of Edinburgh
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The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England Vanderbilt University
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Essex Pauper Letters, 1731-1837
Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition Edited by Thomas Sokoll
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Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820 Courts and Conflict in
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Peter King, Professor of Social History, University College Northampton Twelfth-Century Tuscany Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law
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2003 / 398 pp P.G. McHugh
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Cicero the Advocate Menander
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Jonathan Powell, Professor of Latin, Royal Holloway, A Rhetor in Context
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Ancient Supplication
of the ancient Roman advocate.This book is the first in English to take them F. S. Naiden, Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies,Tulane University
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Ancient Supplication is the first book-length treatment of a key religious practice in
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Marsilius of Padua and ‘the Truth of History’
A collection of fourteen essays by influential scholars on the `Attic Orators’, the ten
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An Introduction to Roman Law sketches the history of Roman Private Law from the
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Thomas A. J. McGinn, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, characteristic and influential features.
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