A Guide to Oral History and the Law

A Guide to Oral History and the Law
Author: John A. Neuenschwander
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199342512

This text covers legal release agreements; protecting sealed interviews and anonymous interviews from courtroom disclosure; defamation; copyright; the Internet; Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), oral history as evidence; the duty to report a crime; and teaching considerations.

International Law and History

International Law and History
Author: Ignacio de la Rasilla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108606520

This interdisciplinary exploration of the modern historiography of international law invites a diverse assessment of the indissoluble unity of the old and the new in the most global of all legal disciplines. The study of the history of international law does not only serve a better understanding of how international law has evolved to become what it is and what it is not. Its histories, which rethink the past in the present, also influence our perception of contemporary matters in international law and our understandings of how they may potentially unfold. This multi-perspectival enquiry into the dominant modes of international legal history and its fundamental debates may also help students of both international law and history to identify the historical approaches that best suit their international legal-historical perspectives and best address their historical and legal research questions.

A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages

A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages
Author: Emanuele Conte
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350079286

In 500, the legal order in Europe was structured around ancient customs, social practices and feudal values. By 1500, the effects of demographic change, new methods of farming and economic expansion had transformed the social and political landscape and had wrought radical change upon legal practices and systems throughout Western Europe. A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages explores this change and the rich and varied encounters between Christianity and Roman legal thought which shaped the period. Evolving from a combination of religious norms, local customs, secular legislations, and Roman jurisprudence, medieval law came to define an order that promoted new forms of individual and social representation, fostered the political renewal that heralded the transition from feudalism to the Early Modern state and contributed to the diffusion of a common legal language. Drawing upon a wealth of textual and visual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.

History of the Common Law

History of the Common Law
Author: John H. Langbein
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 1310
Release: 2009-08-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0735596042

This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs.

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One
Author: Philip Girard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1487530595

A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.

The Dreadful Word

The Dreadful Word
Author: Kristin A. Olbertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 100909890X

A fascinating study of how elite white men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts incorporated the ethos of politeness into the law of criminal speech.

Law in America

Law in America
Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2004-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812972856

Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a supreme example of the historian’s art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.

The Cambridge History of Law in America

The Cambridge History of Law in America
Author: Michael Grossberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781107605053

Volume I of the Cambridge History of Law in America begins the account of law in America with the very first moments of European colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American republic. The book discusses the place of law in regard to colonization and empire, indigenous peoples, government and jurisdiction, population migrations, economic and commercial activity, religion, the creation of social institutions, and revolutionary politics. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

A History of American Law, Revised Edition

A History of American Law, Revised Edition
Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1451602669

A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice. Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.

Capitalism As Civilisation

Capitalism As Civilisation
Author: Ntina Tzouvala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108497187

Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.