Legal Publishing In Antebellum America

Author : M. H. Hoeflich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139488051

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Legal Publishing in Antebellum America by M. H. Hoeflich Pdf

Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part legal history, part history of information diffusion, M. H. Hoeflich shows how various developments in printing and bookbinding, the introduction of railroads, and the expansion of mail service contributed to the growth of the industry from an essentially local industry to a national industry. Furthermore, the book ties the spread of a particular approach to law, that is, the 'scientific approach', championed by Northeastern American jurists to the growth of law publishing and law book selling and shows that the two were critically intertwined.

Author : Michael H. Hoeflich
Publisher : Jamail Center for Legal Research University of Texas School
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
ISBN : 0935630716

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Subscription Publishing and the Sale of Law Books in Antebellum America by Michael H. Hoeflich Pdf

Author : Nan Goodman,Simon Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317042969

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The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America by Nan Goodman,Simon Stern Pdf

Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory, statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the institutions they inhabited (courts, firms, prisons). It will serve as a reference for specific information on a variety of law- and humanities-related topics as well as a guide to understanding how the two disciplines developed in tandem in the long nineteenth century.

Author : Steven J. Macias
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498519472

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Legal Science in the Early Republic by Steven J. Macias Pdf

This work examines the intellectual motivations behind the concept of “legal science”—the first coherent American jurisprudential movement after Independence. Drawing mainly upon public, but also private, sources, this book considers the goals of the bar’s professional leaders who were most adamant and deliberate in setting out their visions of legal science. It argues that these legal scientists viewed the realm of law as the means through which they could express their hopes and fears associated with the social and cultural promises and perils of the early republic. Law, perhaps more so than literature or even the natural sciences, provided the surest path to both national stability and international acclaim. While legal science yielded the methodological tools needed to achieve these lofty goals, its naturalistic foundations, more importantly, were at least partly responsible for the grand impulses in the first place. This book first considers the content of legal science and then explores its application by several of the most articulate legal scientists working and writing in the early republic.

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190070908

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A History of American Law by Lawrence M. Friedman Pdf

Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking closely at timely issues like race relations, the book covers the changing configurations of commercial law, criminal law, family law, and the law of property. Friedman furthermore interrogates the vicissitudes of the legal profession and legal education. The underlying theory of this eminently readable book is that the law is the product of society. In this way, we can view the history of the legal system through a sociological prism as it has evolved over the years.

Author : Kimberly M. Welch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9798890853899

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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South by Kimberly M. Welch Pdf

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular--to make their claims recognizable and persuasive to others and to link their status as owner to the ideal of a free, autonomous citizen. In telling their stories, Welch reveals a previously unknown world of black legal activity, one that is consequential for understanding the long history of race, rights, and civic inclusion in America.

Author : David S. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195369922

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American Comparative Law by David S. Clark Pdf

"Historical Comparative Law and Comparative Legal History Legal history and comparative law overlap in important respects. This is more apparent with the use of some methods for comparison, such as legal transplant, natural law, or nation building. M.N.S. Sellers nicely portrayed the relationship. The past is a foreign country, its people strangers and its laws obscure.... No one can really understand her or his own legal system without leaving it first, and looking back from the outside. The comparative study of law makes one's own legal system more comprehensible, by revealing its idiosyncrasies. Legal history is comparative law without travel. Legal historians, perhaps especially in the United States, have been skeptical about the possibility of a fruitful comparative legal history, preferring in general to investigate the distinctiveness of their national experience. Comparatists, however, content with revealing or promoting similarities or differences between legal systems, by their nature strive toward comparison. Some American historians, especially since World War II, see the value in this"--

Author : Sally E. Hadden,Alfred L. Brophy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781118533772

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A Companion to American Legal History by Sally E. Hadden,Alfred L. Brophy Pdf

A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century. Presents up-to-date research describing the key debates in American legal history Reflects the current state of American legal history research and points readers in the direction of future research Represents an ideal companion for graduate and law students seeking an introduction to the field, the key questions, and future research ideas

Author : Stuart Banner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197556511

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The Decline of Natural Law by Stuart Banner Pdf

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation. Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their arguments and judges often relied upon it in their opinions. Today, by contrast, natural law plays virtually no role in the legal system. When natural law was part of a lawyer's toolkit, lawyers thought of judges as finders of the law, but when natural law dropped out of the legal system, lawyers began thinking of judges as makers of the law instead. In The Decline of Natural Law, the eminent legal historian Stuart Banner explores the causes and consequences of this change. To do this, Banner discusses the ways in which lawyers used natural law and why the concept seemed reasonable to them. He further examines several long-term trends in legal thought that weakened the position of natural law, including the use of written constitutions, the gradual separation of the spheres of law and religion, the rapid growth of legal publishing, and the position of natural law in some of the 19th century's most contested legal issues. And finally, he describes both the profession's rejection of natural law in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the ways in which the legal system responded to the absence of natural law. The first book to explain how natural law once worked in the American legal system, The Decline of Natural Law offers a unique look into how and why this major shift in legal thought happened, and focuses, in particular, on the shift from the idea that law is something we find to something we make.

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190851767

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Uncivil Warriors by Peter Charles Hoffer Pdf

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: A Civil War Of, By, and For Lawyers? -- Prologue: The Inseparability of Politics and Law: The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate -- Chapter One: The Contested Legality of Secession -- Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cabinets and Two Congresses -- Chapter Three: In Re Merryman and its Progeny -- Chapter Four: Was Secession a Crime? -- Chapter Five: An Emancipation Proclamation -- Chapter Six: "A New Birth of Freedom"--Epilogue: The Lawyers' Reconstruction -- Conclusion: The Lawyers' Civil War in Retrospect

Author : Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807830864

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Slavery on Trial by Jeannine Marie DeLombard Pdf

America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators.

Author : Harvard Law Review
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610279871

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Harvard Law Review: Volume 124, Number 7 - May 2011 by Harvard Law Review Pdf

This ebook issue of the Harvard Law Review is May 2011. Contents of Volume 124, Number 7 include: Article, "Article III and the Scottish Judiciary," by James E. Pfander and Daniel D. Birk Book Review, "Constitutional Alarmism," by Trevor W. Morrison Note, "A Justification for Allowing Fragmentation in Copyright" Note, "Taxing Partnership Profits Interests: The Carried Interest Problem" Recent Case, "Corporate Law — Principal’s Liability for Agent’s Conduct" Recent Case, "Administrative Law — Retroactive Rules" Recent Case, "Federal Preemption of State Law — Implied Preemption" Recent Case, "Labor Law — LMRA" Recent Legislation, "Corporate Law — Securities Regulation" Recent Publications

Author : G. Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442648159

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by G. Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson Pdf

The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole. The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women's studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.

Author : Angela Fernandez,Markus Dubber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847319234

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Law Books in Action by Angela Fernandez,Markus Dubber Pdf

'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular.

Author : Eric H. Reiter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487534417

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Wounded Feelings by Eric H. Reiter Pdf

Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada. Through detailed histories of how people litigated emotional injuries like dishonour, humiliation, grief, and betrayal before the Quebec civil courts from 1870 to 1950, Eric H. Reiter explores the confrontation between people’s lived experience of emotion and the legal categories and terminology of lawyers, judges, and courts. Drawing on archival case files, newspapers, and contemporary legal writings, he examines how individuals narrated their claims of injured feelings and how the courts assessed those claims using legal rules, social norms, and the judges’ own feelings to validate certain emotional injuries and reject others. The cases reveal both contemporary views of emotion as well as the family, gender, class, linguistic, and racial dynamics that shaped those understandings and their adjudication. Examples include a family’s grief over their infant son’s death due to a physician’s prescription error, a wealthy woman’s mortification at being harassed by a conductor aboard a train, and a Black man's indignation at being denied seats at a Montreal cinema. The book also traces an important legal change in how moral injury was conceptualized in Quebec civil law over the period as it came to be linked to the developing idea of personality rights. By 1950 the subjective richness of stories of wounded feelings was increasingly put into the language of violated rights, a development with implications for both social understandings of emotion and how individuals presented their emotional injuries in court.