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Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
Booksplease Price: €32.82Although almost a half-century has passed since the jury at Alger Hiss's second trial pronounced him guilty of perjury, the case remains controversial and the verdict leaves questions unanswered. The case has continued to make headlines and attract... -
Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz by Barbara Babcock
Booksplease Price: €138.78Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition to... -
Knowing the Suffering of Others: Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings by Austin Sarat
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.91In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.From fetal imaging... -
Prairie Defender: The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln by George R. Dekle
Booksplease Price: €41.02The conventional wisdom says that most of Lincoln's practice involved collecting debt and representing railroads; that he only practiced law as a platform for his political career; that criminal law was only a minuscule part of his practice; and that he... -
Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech by Eric B Easton
Booksplease Price: €20.33Free speech and freedom of the press were often suppressed amid the social turbulence of the Progressive Era and World War I. As muckrakers, feminists, pacifists, anarchists, socialists, and communists were arrested or censored for their outspoken views,... -
Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk by George Baker
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €34.94This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original... -
Napoleonic Divorce Law in Poland (1808-1852) by Piotr Z. Pomianowski
Booksplease Price: €128.37In 1807 Napoleon Bonaparte created the Duchy of Warsaw from the Polish lands that had been ceded to France by Prussia. His Civil Code was enforced in the new Duchy too and, unlike the Catholic Church, it allowed the dissolution of marriage by divorce. ... -
The Privilege Against Self Incrimination: Its Origins and Developments by R. H. Helmholz
Booksplease Price: €64.91This is a history of the privilege in law against self-incrimination, demonstrating that what is sometimes considered an unchanging tenet of the legal system has actually encompassed many different legal consequences. The book seeks to uncover what the... -
Fundamental Issues in Law and Society by Garth.
Booksplease Price: €105.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810114340Author Garth.Format HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 510g -
The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War by Daniel W. Hamilton
Booksplease Price: €64.56Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government... -
Law and Mourning by Austin Sarat
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €25.53Law and Mourning brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with... -
Wisconsin and the Shaping of American Law by Joseph A. Ranney
Booksplease Price: €48.47A guide to the complex history of state laws and their importance to all AmericansState laws affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives-our safety, personal relationships, and business dealings-but receive less scholarly attention than federal laws... -
"Race," Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Historical Case Studies by James W.S. Walker
Booksplease Price: €50.37Four cases in which the legal issue was "race" -- that of a Chinese restaurant owner who was fined for employing a white woman; a black man who was refused service in a bar; a Jew who wanted to buy a cottage but was prevented by the property... -
Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity by James R. Hackney
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €25.53For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence. In this authoritative intellectual history, James R. Hackney Jr. situates the modern law and... -
Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island by Christopher English
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €32.39The study of Canadian legal history has seen a remarkable growth in the past decade, nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada. Given its early settlement and some of the liberties taken with legal procedure there - as well as some creative interpretations... -
Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar by Hector L Macqueen
Booksplease Price: €150.49This collection brings together in one volume the principal essays of David Sellar (1941-2019) on Scottish legal history, focused upon the influence of Celtic, Canon, English and customary law in the development of Scots law. It includes a paper written... -
Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Nova Scotia by Philip Girard
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €48.96This third volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law presents thoroughly researched, original essays in Nova Scotian legal history. An introduction by the editors is followed by ten essays grouped into four main areas of study. The first is the... -
The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts James A. Brundage 9780226077598
RRP: €67.24Booksplease Price: €66.22James A. Brundage's "The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession" traces the history of legal practice from its genesis in ancient Rome to its rebirth in the early Middle Ages and eventual resurgence in the courts of the medieval church. By the end of... -
Monopolies and Patents: A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly by Harold G Fox
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €31.54Harold G. Fox is a native of Toronto and a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Law School of Osgoode Hall. For some years he practised patent and trade mark law as a member of the firm of Fetherstonhaugh & Fox. In the nineteen-twenties he was... -
Gibbons v. Ogden: John Marshall, Steamboats and the Commerce Clause by Herbert A. Johnson
Booksplease Price: €27.88What began as a standoff between competing steamship entrepreneurs ended as one of the Supreme Court's most significant cases. Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824 brought into sharp relief the ongoing tug-of-war for power between individual states and the federal... -
Brown V. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution by Robert J. Cottrol
Booksplease Price: €35.72Before 1954, both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation. That began to change with Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision that overturned the pernicious "separate but equal" doctrine. In declaring... -
The Geography of Law: Landscape, Identity and Regulation by William Taylor
Booksplease Price: €51.16The essays in this collection relate notions of space and representations of interior and exterior spaces to concerns for individual identity and autonomy as these are framed by practices of governance or codified by law. They examine the manner in... -
Legal Norms and Normativity: An Essay in Genealogy by Sylvie Delacroix
Booksplease Price: €89.50This book offers a 'genealogical' explanation of law's normativity. The term 'genealogical' conveys a commitment to a non-metaphysical type of enquiry. While it explains how law, as a normative phenomenon, comes about, it does not seek to ground law's... -
The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime and Colonial Law by Peter Charles Hoffer
Booksplease Price: €40.23Almost 35 years before New York saw the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumours of a slave conspiracy spread in the city, leading to the conviction and execution of over 70 slaves. This text retells the... -
The Lawyer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom by Jan Cigliano Hartman
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.51The Lawyer Says collects the wise words of preeminent legal minds across time, from Abraham Lincoln to Rosalie Abella, from Mahatma Gandhi to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Marcus Tullius Cicero to Michelle Obama. Witness the giants of the world's most... -
Roman Law, Scots Law and Legal History: Selected Essays by William M. Gordon
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €111.55W M Gordon, who retired from the Douglas Chair of Civil Law at the University of Glasgow in 1999, is well known for his distinguished contribution to Roman law, legal history and land law. He is the author of several books in these subject areas, but it... -
The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases by Barbara A. Perry
Booksplease Price: €27.88In its controversial Bakke decision of 1978, the Supreme Court upheld racial and ethnic diversity in university admissions - but it was not to be the last word on the matter. When Jennifer Gratz and Barbara Grutter challenged the University of Michigan's... -
Fascism and Criminal Law: History, Theory, Continuity by Stephen Skinner
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €101.11Fascism was one of the twentieth century's principal political forces, and one of the most violent and problematic. Brutal, repressive and in some cases totalitarian, the fascist and authoritarian regimes of the early twentieth century, in Europe and... -
Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries: A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts by Wilfrid Prest
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €101.11This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing influence of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the work's original publication in the 1760s down to the present. Contributions by cultural and literary scholars,... -
What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision by Jack M. Balkin
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.94Constitutional scholars rewrite the landmark decision In January 1973, the Supreme Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade struck down most of the country's abortion laws, and held for the first time that women had a constitutional right to safe and legal... -
Transformations in American Legal History: Law, Ideology, and Methods - Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz: No. 2 by Daniel W. Hamilton
RRP: €45.16Booksplease Price: €37.69Over the course of his career at Harvard, Morton Horwitz changed the questions legal historians ask. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977) disclosed the many ways that judge-made law favored commercial and property interests and remade law... -
Sovereignty: The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept by Dieter Grimm
Booksplease Price: €104.80Dieter Grimm's accessible introduction to the concept of sovereignty ties the evolution of the idea to historical events, from the religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe to today's trends in globalization and transnational institutions. Grimm... -
The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War by Roger Daniels
Booksplease Price: €28.45After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented "military necessity," ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes,... -
The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861 by David P. Currie
Booksplease Price: €33.42The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation... -
Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution by H. Robert Baker
Booksplease Price: €28.80Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black... -
The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights by Gerard N. Magliocca
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €30.48This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights... -
The Majesty Of The Law by Sandra Day O'Connor 9780812967470
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967470Author Sandra Day O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Williamson's Directory, for the City of Edinburgh, Canongate, Leith, and Suburbs, from June 1775, to June 1776. by Peter Williamson 9781140865322
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140865322Author Peter WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Observations on the Pell Proceedings by Frank Brennan 9781922449535
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922449535Author Frank BrennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court Publishing -
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde Vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry), 1895 by Merlin Holland 9780007158058
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007158058Author Merlin HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Fourth Estate LtdPublisher HarperCollins Publishers