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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection:...

Author: Linda Myrsiades
ISBN: 9780820366265
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Explores the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines...  Read More >>

Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law

Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law

Author: Roger Witten
ISBN: 9781632261373
Format: Hardback
$44.99

In Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, editor Roger Witten takes us behind the scenes of some of...  Read More >>

Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA

Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of...

Author: Michael A. Olivas ,  Bill Richardson
ISBN: 9781479830992
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In 1982, the...  Read More >>

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the...

Author: Anthony Gregory
ISBN: 9780674290303
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Anthony Gregory traces the origins of America’s modern law-and-order politics to a surprising source: the New Deal,...  Read More >>

Court-Hand Restored [1879]

Court-Hand Restored [1879]

Author: Andrew Wright
ISBN: 9781616196899
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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A Modern Legal History of Treasure

A Modern Legal History of Treasure

Author: N.M. Dawson
ISBN: 9783031128356
Format: Paperback
$448.77

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Sedition: Macaulay to Modi

Sedition: Macaulay to Modi

Author: Rijul Singh Uppal
ISBN: 9781032768946
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the trajectory of the sedition law from its introduction by the British colonial power and its...  Read More >>

The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography

The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography

Author: Valentin Jeutner (Lunds Universitet, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781009445627
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Offering the first comprehensive account of the history and function of the common law's most legendary character,...  Read More >>

International Law and the Principle of Non-Intervention: History, Theory, and Interactions with Other Principles

International Law and the Principle of Non-Intervention:...

Author: Marco Roscini (Professor of International Law, Professor of International Law, Westminster Law School)
ISBN: 9780198786894
Format: Hardback
$298.95

This book provides a systematic analysis of the principle of non-intervention from a historical, theoretical, and...  Read More >>

The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: Transmission, Dispersal, and Loss, 1604–1864

The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: Transmission, Dispersal,...

Author: Martine Julia van Ittersum
ISBN: 9789004536005
Format: Hardback
$726.00

An examination of the transmission, dispersal and loss of handwritten documents initially used in Grotius’ day-to-day...  Read More >>

Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development

Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in...

Author: Anthony Michael Kreis
ISBN: 9780520394193
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American...  Read More >>

Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico

Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation...

Author: Mónica A. Jiménez
ISBN: 9781469678450
Format: Paperback
$42.90

A series of crises, from outsized debt to climate fueled disasters, have led to massive protests and brought Puerto...  Read More >>

War Makes Monsters: Crime and Criminality in Times of Conflict

War Makes Monsters: Crime and Criminality in Times of...

Author: Claire Eldridge ,  Julie Powell
ISBN: 9781478027911
Format: Paperback
$36.96

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Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico

Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation...

Author: Mónica A. Jiménez
ISBN: 9781469678443
Format: Hardback
$168.30

A series of crises, from outsized debt to climate fueled disasters, have led to massive protests and brought Puerto...  Read More >>

Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development

Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in...

Author: Anthony Michael Kreis
ISBN: 9780520394186
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American...  Read More >>

Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance of a Penal Classic

Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance...

Author: Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Shachar Eldar (Ono Academic College, Israel)
ISBN: 9781509959174
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Cesare Beccaria’s slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades,...  Read More >>

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in...

Author: Lee B. Wilson (Clemson University, South Carolina)
ISBN: 9781108817899
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond...  Read More >>

The Significant Lawyer: The Pursuit of Purpose and Professionalism

The Significant Lawyer: The Pursuit of Purpose and Professionalism...

Author: William S. Duffey, Jr.
ISBN: 9780881468205
Format: Hardback
$46.20

With more than forty years in practice, including fourteen years on the federal bench, and informed by hundreds...  Read More >>

Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

Author: Mary Jane Mossman
ISBN: 9781771125925
Format: Hardback
$160.60

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David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy

David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British...

Author: David Grealy (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350294905
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Although the evolution of human rights diplomacy during the second half of the 20th century has been the subject...  Read More >>

Transitional Justice and Socio-Economic Harm: Land Grabbing in Afghanistan

Transitional Justice and Socio-Economic Harm: Land Grabbing...

Author: Huma Saeed
ISBN: 9780367681364
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Anarchism: An Art of Living Without Law

Anarchism: An Art of Living Without Law

Author: Elena Loizidou (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032326092
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In contrast to the extensive contemporary literature about anarchist politics and ideas, this book focuses on the...  Read More >>

Confluences of law and history: Irish Legal History Society discourses and other papers, 2011-21

Confluences of law and history: Irish Legal History...

Author: Niamh Howlin ,  Felix M. Larkin
ISBN: 9781801510851
Format: Hardback
$129.38

This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history and the early modern period...  Read More >>

Ordo testamenti: Pflichtendenken, Familienverfassung und Gemeinschaftsbezug im römischen Testamentsrecht

Ordo testamenti: Pflichtendenken, Familienverfassung...

Author: Martin Avenarius
ISBN: 9783161632419
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Das vorklassische römische Testament diente überindividuellen Zwecken. Es sollte die Überleitung des Verantwortungsbereichs...  Read More >>

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