The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber

The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber
Author: Daniel Coit Gilman
Publisher: Nabu Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2013-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781295387151

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations

Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations
Author: David Long
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0791483932

What were the guiding themes of the discipline of International Relations before World War II? The traditional disciplinary history has long viewed this time period as one guided by idealism and then challenged by realism. This book reconstructs in detail some of the formative episodes of the field's early development and arrives at the conclusion that, in actuality, the early years of International Relations were preoccupied not with idealism and realism but with the dual themes of imperialism and internationalism. Thus, the beginnings of the discipline have resonance with the recently revived discourse of empire and the global status and policies of the United States as the world's sole superpower.

Politics, Values and Functions

Politics, Values and Functions
Author: Charney
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004640924

The editors and contributors have formed this collection to honor Louis Henkin in his 80th year. He has contributed greatly to the fields of international and constitutional law, to teaching and scholarship, to the international community and to each of the contributors and editors personally. They wanted to acknowledge his outstanding work and they wanted to inspire the next generation of international lawyers by highlighting the impact of Henkin's contribution to international and constitutional scholarship. The editors believe the essays in this collection demonstrate tangibly what can be accomplished by a great and committed mind. The international community profits greatly from his commitment. As will be clear from the list of authors, the topics are dealt with in an outstanding manner; quality needs no praise.

Secession on Trial

Secession on Trial
Author: Cynthia Nicoletti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 110824761X

This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial because it threatened to undercut the meaning and significance of Union victory. Cynthia Nicoletti describes the interactions of the lawyers who worked on both sides of the Davis case - who saw its potential to disrupt the verdict of the battlefield against secession. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Americans engaged in a wide-ranging debate over the legitimacy and effectiveness of war as a method of legal adjudication. Instead of risking the 'wrong' outcome in the highly volatile Davis case, the Supreme Court took the opportunity to pronounce secession unconstitutional in Texas v. White (1869).

Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot

Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot
Author: D. Clinton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2003-09-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 140397375X

Current discussions of liberalism in world affairs tend to take a shortsighted view of the historical antecedents of the school of thought. Most jump directly from Kant to Wilson with little pause in between. In this book, Clinton has selected three thinkers to exemplify developments in the liberal world, all of whom were figures of real consequence in their own time, yet altogether different in temperament and subsequent fashion. Clinton shows how their interests and concerns, both complementary and divergent, make sense of nineteenth-century liberalism without turning it into the rigid doctrine it has never been - and never can be. By using their published works, speeches, and other correspondences, Clinton explores the way they applied their general insights on politics and society to the particular conditions of the international life. In so doing he provides a comparative study of the variants on a distinctively 'liberal' approach to international relations of this period, which may hold lessons for our own time.

American Comparative Law

American Comparative Law
Author: David S. Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2022-09-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195369920

"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"--

Francis Lieber

Francis Lieber
Author: Lewis Reifsneider Harley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1899
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Presents the life and political writings of Francis Lieber during the 1800's, who was fond of looking at the moral side of political life.