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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.
Law --- History --- LAW / Legal History. --- History. --- Law / legal history. --- United States --- History and criticism --- Law - United States - History
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History of North America --- History of the law --- United States --- Law --- History --- History. --- Law - United States - History --- United States of America
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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.
Law --- History. --- History --- Law - United States - History --- Droit --- États-Unis --- 1500-1800 --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle --- 21e siècle
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The contemporary US legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end - in a context of sharp disagreement over the social good. It traces the rise of the instrumental view of law in the course of the past two centuries, then demonstrates the pervasiveness of this view of law and its implications within the contemporary legal culture, and ends by showing the various ways in which seeing law in purely instrumental terms threatens to corrode the rule of law.
Rule of law --- Law --- Legal positivism --- Instrumentalism (Philosophy) --- History --- Philosophy --- Legal instrumentalism --- Legal positivism. --- Pragmatism --- Legal neopositivism --- Neopositivism in law --- Jurisprudence --- Positivism --- Supremacy of law --- Administrative law --- Constitutional law --- History. --- Philosophy. --- General and Others --- Rule of law - United States - History --- Law - United States - Philosophy
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340.12 --- Law --- -Law --- -Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- 340.12 Natuurrecht. Rechtsfilosofie --(algemeen) --- Natuurrecht. Rechtsfilosofie --(algemeen) --- History --- -Philosophy --- Philosophy --- History and criticism --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Droit --- Law - Philosophy --- Law - Great Britain - History --- Law - United States - History
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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.
Balance of power --- -International law --- -Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- Power, Balance of --- Power politics --- International relations --- Political realism --- History --- United States --- Foreign relations. --- International law --- History. --- Droit international --- Equilibre des puissances --- Histoire --- Etats-Unis --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures --- Law of nations --- General and Others --- International law - History. --- International law - United States - History. --- Balance of power - History.
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From the historic launch of the organization by such luminaries as Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, to the recent era when international law is more and more in the public realm, Kirgis’s book traces the evolution of the organization and its relationship to events in the United States and around the world. As he says in the preface: '...In the end, the reader will have to make his/her own judgment about how well the Society has run the course it set out for itself in 1906. I hope this book will provide a basis for that judgment. And of course no judgment at this stage can be final. The American Society of International Law will carry on into its second century with new and continuing programs that take into account what it has done in its first one hundred years. It will continue to do its best to demonstrate not only what international law is or should be, but also that, in the words of former ASIL President Louis Henkin, international law matters.'
Internationaal recht. --- International law --- International relations and culture --- Culture and international relations --- Culture --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- History. --- American Society of International Law --- Sociedad Americana de Derecho Internacional --- ASIL (American Society of International Law) --- Geschichte --- History --- International law - United States - History --- International relations and culture - United States - History
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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.
Protest movements --- Convict labor --- Imprisonment --- Punishment --- Criminal law --- Labor movement --- History --- United States --- Politics and government --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Arts and Humanities --- Crime --- Crimes and misdemeanors --- Criminals --- Law, Criminal --- Penal codes --- Penal law --- Pleas of the crown --- Public law --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal procedure --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Lease system --- Prison labor --- Forced labor --- Prisoners --- Social movements --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Protest movements - United States - History --- Convict labor - United States - History --- Imprisonment - United States - History --- Punishment - United States - History --- Criminal law - United States - History --- Labor movement - United States - History --- United States - Politics and government
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Banks and banking --- Banking law --- History --- 331.155 --- 331.156 --- 331.162.20 --- 331.162.21 --- 331.162.22 --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Money --- Law, Banking --- Geldwezen in de XIXe eeuw tot 1914 --- Geldwezen van 1914 tot 1945 --- Geschiedenis van de banken: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de centrale banken --- Geschiedenis van de private banken --- Law and legislation --- Banks and banking - United States - History - 20th century --- Banking law - United States - History - 20th century
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