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International law --- International and municipal law --- History. --- History --- International law - United States - History. --- International and municipal law - United States - History. --- VIE INTERNATIONALE --- POLITIQUE ETRANGERE --- ETATS-UNIS

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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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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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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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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