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Engrossing and illuminating book
Witt's book is the best of its kind -- it illuminates the history and legal developments of the turn-of-the-century modern factories and their beleagured workers with stories of the historical players, the thinkers, and the judges and legislators.Witt is accessible to all and I have not stopped thinking about the book and its significance to today's tort laws since. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accident law    2. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    3. History    4. Labor & Employment    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal History    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. United States    10. Workers' compensation    11. American history: c 1800 to c 1900    12. Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law    13. Law / Legal History    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Ethics & Moral Philosophy    3. General    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Law    7. Law (General)    8. Legal History    9. Legal Profession    10. Legal System    11. Legal assistants    12. Paralegals & Paralegalism    13. Philosophy Of Law    14. Politics / Current Events    15. United States    16. Business & Economics / General    17. Jurisprudence & General Issues    18. Jurisprudence & philosophy of law   

Subjects:  1. 1910-    2. Bordeaux    3. Europe - France    4. France    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    9. International    10. Jews    11. Legal History    12. Papon, Maurice,    13. Persecutions    14. Trials (Crimes against humanit    15. Trials (Crimes against humanity)    16. Trials, litigation, etc    17. Courts & procedure    18. European history: Second World War    19. History / General    20. History of specific subjects    21. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    22. The Holocaust   

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Good Legal History
This is a neat history of the Somerset Case, the 1772 English court case that outlawed slavery in the United Kingdom (but not in the British Empire).The case was epochal, and, for that reason alone, readers interested in legal history should read this book.Unfortunately, the narrative is a bit convoluted and weighed down with too many unnecessary details and too much 18th century British legal lore, as if the author felt he had to use everything he turned up during his research.That's too bad.Otherwise, the book is highly recommended.
Excellent legal history of the battle to abolish slavery
Dr. Wise writes in a story telling manner that is easy to read and understand. He tells the legal history of the battle to abolish slavery as it developed a couple of centuries before Abe Lincoln's Emancipation Act speech in the United States. He lets the readers understand the evolutionary factors of the alive world of law, and learn facts about slavery abolishment that many may not know.

Great research on an important case
As on reads this book we know the author has done a careful and excellent job of research in records which it is great still exist.Somerset's case was decided June 22, 1772 by Lord Mansfield and was a vital step to the eventual ending of slavery.This book is so meticulously researched, with careful citations of every case mentioned, that it is a joy to read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 18th century    2. Civil Law    3. England    4. Europe - Great Britain - General    5. History    6. History - General History    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal History    9. Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights    10. Slavery    11. Social History    12. Social Science    13. Sociology    14. Sociology - General    15. Sommersett, James    16. Trials, litigation, etc    17. Jurisprudence & General Issues    18. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Subjects:  1. Business & Financial    2. Common law    3. Evolution    4. Jurisprudence    5. Law    6. Legal History    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Methodology    9. Philosophy    10. Study and teaching    11. Jurisprudence & General Issues    12. Law / General   

Subjects:  1. Aboriginal Australians    2. Australia    3. Indians of North America    4. Indigenous peoples    5. Law    6. Legal History    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Legal status, laws, etc    9. Legal status, laws, etc.    10. Reference    11. Australasia    12. Civil rights & citizenship    13. Common law    14. Law / Legal History    15. Law | Legal History    16. North America   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. History    3. Judge-made law    4. Law    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Private Law    8. United States    9. United States - 19th Century    10. American common law; nineteenth-century courts; jurisprudence of the head; English precedent; jurisprudence of the heart; jurists; judicial innovations; Studies in Legal History    11. American history: c 1800 to c 1900    12. Civil law (general works)    13. History / United States / 19th Century    14. Jurisprudence & General Issues    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. History    3. Law    4. Legal History    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Legal status, laws, etc.    7. Middle East - Israel    8. Nationalism    9. Palestine    10. Palestinian Arabs    11. 20th century    12. Law / Legal History    13. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    14. pre-1948 Palestine; Israel; Trans-Jordan; Ottoman Empire; Middle East; Levant; mandate system; Negev Desert; Beersheba; Jerusalem; Bedouin; ultraorthodox; Jews; Arabs; Palestinians; British colonialism; colonial discourse theory; Orientalism; anticolonialism; nationalism; Zionism; Hebrew law; Islamic law; halakhah; sharia; Norman Bentwich; Gad Frumkin; Thomas Haycraft; Michael McDonnell; Harry Trusted; Richard Manning; Randolph Copland; Owen Corrie; William FitzGerald; Hasan Sidqi al-Dajani; Margaret Nixon; Frederic Goadby; von Savigny; Samuel Eisenstadt; Paltiel Dickstein; Mordechai Eliash; Asher Gulak; Avraham Freimann; Fahmi al-Husayni; Abd al-Latif Salah; Aref el-Aref; Abcarius Bey; rabbinical courts; Jewish courts; sharia courts; slavery; child marriage; League of Nations; Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics; Hebrew University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; al-Huquq   

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Is atonement possible?
This book is an eminently readable account of the disasters which befell the Arikara,Hidatsa and Mandan tribes when they were displaced by the damning of the Missouri.
Coyote Warrier: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation
An extraordinary look at the forces that disenfrnchised an Indian Nation from its heritage and its land. An insightful look into the destructive forces that rend family and community ties when frderal policies that de-humanize Native people are allowed to be implemented behind one man's ego, and a government's indifference.It is an all too familiar story -- well told -- of disenfranchisement of Indian people and governments.And finally, a story of the courage and incredible intellect of one families battle against irresistible forces.

An exceptional introduction to Indian legal rights and more
I have published an award-winning law review article on Federal Indian Law, worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (until I couldn't hold my nose any longer), and had the great good luck to learn Indian Law from Prof. Raymond Cross at The University of Montana School of Law.But Paul VanDevelder taught me new things about all three.
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Subjects:  1. Garrison Dam    2. Government policy    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History: World    6. Indians of North America    7. Indians, Treatment of    8. Legal History    9. Legal status, laws, etc    10. Native American    11. North Dakota    12. Relocation    13. Three Affiliated Tribes    14. United States - State & Local - Midwest    15. Current Events / General   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Great Britain    3. Judge-made law    4. Law    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Sociological jurisprudence    8. English civil law: general works    9. English law: criminal law    10. Law / Legal History    11. Law | Legal History   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. History    3. Informed consent (Medical law)    4. Law    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal System    8. Medical    9. Medical Ethics    10. Medical Law & Legislation    11. United States    12. Courts & procedure    13. Medical / Ethics    14. Medicine | Ethics    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Alien Tort Claims Act    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Government liability    5. Government liability (Internat    6. Government liability (International law)    7. International - Economics    8. Legal History    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Tort liability of corporations    11. Torts    12. United States    13. International trade    14. Torts / delicts    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Birth control    2. Connecticut    3. Constitutional    4. Griswold, Estelle    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal History    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. New Haven    10. Privacy, Right of    11. Trials    12. Trials, litigation, etc    13. United States    14. United States - 20th Century    15. Women's Studies - General    16. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    17. Constitutional & administrative law    18. Public health & safety law    19. USA   

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An Excellent Review of Judicial History
Because the political philosophy of our fathers is rooted in a combination of Lockean and Hobbesian philosophy, the initial Federal government's role was basically defense, foreign policy, and refereeing interstate commerce.It was not to provide for needs such as retirement, health, food assistance, farm support, or recreation.Yet, today the federal government is involved in all these activities, and over time, individual property rights have been highly compromised, and personal responsibility is no longer an legally binding.
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Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Constitutional history    3. Constitutions    4. History & Theory - General    5. History - U.S.    6. Legal History    7. Political History    8. Political Science    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Progressivism (United States politics)    11. U.S. Constitutional History    12. United States    13. United States - 20th Century    14. United States - General    15. History / General   

Subjects:  1. Culture and law    2. Law    3. Law and anthropology    4. Legal History    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Anthropology    7. Jurisprudence & General Issues    8. Law / Legal History    9. Political Science and International Relations    10. Sociology   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Constitutional history    3. Courts - General    4. Courts - Supreme Court    5. Government - Judicial Branch    6. Government - U.S. Government    7. History    8. Law    9. Legal History    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. Political questions and judicial power    12. United States    13. Courts & procedure    14. Jurisprudence & General Issues    15. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    16. USA   

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Required Reading for any Student of the Law or Anybody who need something new to read.
Gerald Stern is the lead lawyer for over 600 plaintiffs who weree suing the West Virginia coal company and their sole corporate stock holder, another corporation in New York over the flooding that killed several dozens people and leave hundreds homeless. This book not only recount the stories of the Buffalo Creek disaster in vivid details, but it explore in-depth the civil proceeding the follow the incident. Stern shows his readers in-depth the process of litigation and legal- and sometime extra-legal- tactics that lawyers employ to their advantage. This book would be an unconventional reading for law classes where students are force to study cases their ruling and the legal theory behind it, instead Stern demonstrate the real life strategy of attacks and defenses that lawyer employed. It range from how to pick a judge (and the heavy research that went behind it,) to suing through the corporate veil and going at the stock holder for compensation, and to the negotiating a settlement, and where to balance the ego of the lawyer and the benefits for their clients. Stern wrote in a non-technical style that anyone could jump in and still find it fulfilling. This is a highly enjoyable read and an enriching experience to understand the modern litigation process, it won't made lawyer out of us but it will help us know what they think.

There are lawyers who do good
I was assigned to read this for my Civil Procedure class in law school.Although I dreaded reading it, once I started, I could not put it down.As a law student (or if you are a lawyer for that matter), this was a great insight into how a lawsuit is constructed on such a grand scale.Even if you have no interest in law, Stern manages to tell such a compelling story, I would recomend this book to anyone.It provides great insight into the operations of a corrupt coal company, a state and region at the industry's mercy, and people who felt helpless when their lives were destroyed by the mining company's negligence and the state's oversight.A definite must read.

Engrossing Real-Life Legal Drama
Even though the subtitle gives away the ending, you won't be able to put this one down as the author leads you to one clue after the other that bring down a corrupt company and give new life to a community ripped to shreds. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Buffalo Creek (Logan County)    2. Floods    3. History - General History    4. History: American    5. Legal History    6. Pittston Company    7. Prince, Dennis    8. United States - State & Local - General    9. West Virginia    10. Law / Legal History   

Subjects:  1. Abortion    2. Abortion & Birth Control    3. Constitutional    4. Law and legislation    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Medical Law & Legislation    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. United States    11. United States - 20th Century    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Social Science / Women's Studies    14. abortion; Roe v. Wade; fetus; unborn; women's rights movement; Pro-Choice;Pro-Life; NARAL; NOW; Harry Blackmun; Antonin Scalia; Sandra Day O'Connor; abortion rights; court opinions; birth control; Hyde Amendment; Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act   

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An important analysis of censorship "for children's sake"
This book is a responsible and important study of how we rationalize censorship policies to "protect" children.The interests at stake here are as obvious as they are important. The freedom of expression has long been considered the touchstone of individual liberty and, in turn, democracy. Legally, we have enacted many safeguards to protect this essential aspect of our society, and continue to give mouth service to its importance.But, even as we tout the importance of such personal freedoms, both overseas and on American soil, we are sadly failing in one critical respect:we are not instilling these values in our children.Instead, we are showing them that an authoritative regime may censor and punish unpopular or offensive speech in the name of safety and conformity.We lecture students over the values of the freedom of speech while allowing schools inappropriately broad latitude in declaring student behavior inappropriate or dangerous if it even references violent or sexual themes.Anything considered "sexual" in nature is censored from school life entirely, and even sexual education classes suffer in their ability to inform and protect students.
Protectionism is Harmful to Minors
Though the scholarly discussions of legal cases were trying (pardon the pun) to get through, they were worth the effort.They helped to dramatize the incredible amounts of time, energy, and emotion misplaced in the "harm to minors" protectionism racket.Due to her civil libertarian background, I was surprised to see her frequent attempts to present (or at least understand) both sides. Author Brought up Good Issues
My reading group chose this book, because we felt that there weren't many books out there that focused on the topic of censorship and the protection of children and innocence.But while she brings up many issues that shows censorship as troublesome, she addresses them in such a dry manner that it became harder to read as the book became more or a summary of all the court cases there have been regarding the issues.It would be a great book for a communication or law class, but for recreational reading, it was very difficult for us as readers to get to the end of the book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Censorship    3. Children's Studies    4. History    5. History: American    6. Legal History    7. Media Studies    8. National characteristics, Amer    9. National characteristics, American    10. Obscenity (Law)    11. Sociology    12. United States    13. United States - 20th Century   

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Another Brilliant Work of Legal Art
Another brilliant piece...Lief has done it again!A must read for the legal novice or the established professional.Lief has a gift for dissecting the subject cases like the legal Ninja he is.This latest work of legal art engages the reader's interest and won't let go... Should be mandatory reading in all the law schools.

Outstanding Piece of Work
An outstanding review of civil rights cases were people stepped up to represent and provide for the freedoms of others and protected what America is all about. High School, college students, and others can really appreciate our history and from where today's societal norms came.

Intresting throughout
Couldn't put the book down. Every chapter was well written and to the level of the average reader. You don't need to be a lawyer to read and enjoy this book. If you love Law and Order this is the real life stuff. Would recommend to anyone. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Civil rights    3. General    4. Law    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Popular works    8. United States    9. United States - General    10. Law / General