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American legal history : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 9780199766000 9780199913053 9780199354344 0199766002 0199354340 0199913056 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press,

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This volume demonstrates the pivotal role of law in American life. The chapters focus on the legal history of Indian tribes slavery, property rights, the relationship of law to entrepreneurial activity, crimes and punishments, domestic relations, civil injuries and tort law, as well as legal education and the legal profession.

Patterns of American jurisprudence
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ISBN: 019825850X 9780198258506 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

The Constitution in Congress : the Jeffersonians, 1801-1829
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ISBN: 0226131173 9780226131177 Year: 2001 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press

The Constitution in Congress : descent into the maelstrom, 1829-1861
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ISBN: 0226129160 9780226129167 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press

The transformation of corporate control
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ISBN: 0674903587 0674903595 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press


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Historic U.S. court cases, 1690-1990 : an encyclopedia
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ISBN: 0824044304 9780824044305 Year: 1992 Volume: 2 Publisher: New York London Garland Publishing

Unequal justice : lawyers and social change in Modern America
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ISBN: 0195021703 9780195021707 Year: 1976 Publisher: London [etc.] Oxford University Press

United States hegemony and the foundations of international law
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ISBN: 0521819490 0521050863 110713580X 0511179057 0511061579 0511326033 0511055242 0511494157 1280430605 1139148796 0511070039 9780521819497 9780511061578 9780511179051 9780511494154 9780511070037 9780511055249 9780521050869 9781280430602 9781139148795 9780511326035 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Successive hegemonic powers have shaped the foundations of international law. This book examines whether the predominance of the United States is leading to foundational change in the international legal system. A range of leading scholars in international law and international relations consider six foundational areas that could be undergoing change, including international community, sovereign equality, the law governing the use of force, and compliance. The authors demonstrate that the effects of US predominance on the foundations of international law are real, but also intensely complex. This complexity is due, in part, to a multitude of actors exercising influential roles. And it is also due to the continued vitality and remaining functionality of the international legal system itself. This system limits the influence of individual states, while stretching and bending in response to the changing geopolitics of our time.

The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
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ISBN: 9780521537834 9780521830966 0521830966 0521537835 9780511511721 051138999X 1107174627 9786611370459 0511394063 0511393261 0511511728 0511390750 1281370452 0511391951 0511394713 9780511394713 9780511394065 9781107174627 9781281370457 6611370455 9780511393266 9780511391958 9780511390753 Year: 2008 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits of state power, the influence of market forces, the role of unfree labor, and the 'just deserts' of wrongdoers. McLennan also explores the system that existed between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she discusses the rehabilitation model that has primarily characterized the penal system in the twentieth century. Unearthing fresh evidence from prison and state archives, McLennan shows how, in each of three distinct periods of crisis, widespread dissent culminated in the dismantling of old systems of imprisonment.

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