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For students of law and communications to those interested in military topics.
It's customary in times of war for civil liberties to be overlooked; but what is more surprising is that the need and actions of military tribunals are not questioned more closely during either war OR peacetime. Here to ask these questions is IN THE NAME OF NECESSITY: MILITARY TRIBUNALS AND THE LOSS OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES. Marouf Hasian Jr. is a professor of communications: his analysis demonstrates that 'necessity' has often been evoked as justification for injustices, and case studies support his contention as he considers military tribunals from the Revolutionary War to modern times. His will appeal to a wide college-level audience, from students of law and communications to those interested in military topics.
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Subjects:  1. Civil rights    2. Communication    3. Courts-martial and courts of inquiry    4. Law    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Military    8. Necessity (Law)    9. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    10. Taxation    11. United States    12. Military law & courts martial    13. Political Science / Civil Rights   

Subjects:  1. Citizenship    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Gender Studies    5. Government policy    6. History    7. History: American    8. Legal History    9. Social role    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. United States - 20th Century    13. Women immigrants    14. Women's Studies - History    15. American History    16. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    17. Civil rights & citizenship    18. History / United States / 20th Century    19. USA    20. Women's studies   

Subjects:  1. Church and state    2. Constitutional    3. Courts - Supreme Court    4. Freedom of religion    5. History    6. Law    7. Legal History    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. United States    10. American History    11. Anthropology    12. Courts & procedure    13. Law / Constitutional    14. Political Science and International Relations    15. Religion    16. Religion: general    17. USA   

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Shining Knights of the Status Quo?
The Legacy of the Rehnquist Supreme Court is that not much has really happened, according to Mark Tushnet, Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center.The Court has maintained the line on Abortion and Affirmative Action, expanded gay's rights in its famous Lawrence vs. Texas decision, and in the cause of Federalism, it made only slight moves (it did limit the power of the US Congress under the Commerce Clause, for the first time since the New Deal, but upheld most Federal Laws against "Federalist" assaults). Dry but academically appropriate
I read this book as to get a simple foundation/understanding of the U.S. Supreme Court and their historical trends covering the major issues talked about in society today. It is dry, typical book you would read before or during law school but would not recommend it for someone not interested in pursuing law.
an interesting appraisal
Books for well-read non-lawyers interested in the "behind-the-scenes" Supreme Court and its relationship to the Court's jurisprudence have been around for quite some time.Bernard Schwartz, beginning in the early 1980s, published a series of books on the Warren, Burger and early Rehnquist Courts, usually focusing on unpublished memoranda and draft opinions circulated among the justices.Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong published a best-selling account of the Supreme Court -- The Brethern -- in the late 1970s.This book was fascinating, albeit quite gossipy.Edward Lazarus, in Closed Chambers, tried the Woodward/Armstrong trick for the late Burger/early Rehnquist Courts, leavening gossip concerning mutual antipathies among the justices with more doctrinal analysis.
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Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Constitutional law    3. Courts - General    4. Courts - Supreme Court    5. General    6. Law    7. Legal History    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Political questions and judicial power    10. United States    11. Law / General    12. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT   

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Subjects:  1. Chicago    2. Chicago Seven Trial, Chicago, Ill., 1969-1970    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History - U.S.    7. History: American    8. Illinois    9. Legal History    10. Riots    11. Trials (Conspiracy)    12. U.S. History - 1960s    13. United States - 20th Century    14. United States - 20th Century/60s    15. United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic    16. United States - State & Local - Midwest    17. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    18. History / General    19. Jurisprudence & General Issues    20. Political activism    21. c 1960 to c 1970   

Subjects:  1. China    2. International    3. Law    4. Law reform    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Philosophy Of Law    8. Rule of law    9. Jurisprudence & philosophy of law    10. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    11. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. Europe - Scandinavia    2. Gragas    3. Grâagâas    4. History    5. History: World    6. Iceland    7. Law    8. Legal History    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Medieval    11. Reference    12. Sources    13. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    14. Northern Europe, Scandinavia   

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Subjects:  1. History    2. History - U.S.    3. Human Sexuality    4. Legal History    5. Prostitution    6. Sex Relations    7. Sex customs    8. Sociology    9. United States    10. United States - 20th Century    11. American history: from c 1900 -    12. Criminal law    13. Ethical issues & debates    14. Law / General    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality    16. USA   

Subjects:  1. Allied occupation, 1945-1952    2. Asia - Japan    3. Constitutional    4. Constitutional Law    5. Constitutional history    6. History    7. International Relations - General    8. Japan    9. Japan.    10. Kenpo (1946)    11. Kenpåo (1946)    12. Law    13. Legal History    14. Legal Reference / Law Profession    15. U.S. - Japan Relations    16. Law / Legal History    17. Law | Comparative Law and National Legal Systems    18. Political science & theory    19. Political structures: democracy    20. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000   

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An interesting analysis of the right to bear arms
It is important to realize that this book is not really about the 2nd Amendment. Instead, Malcolm seeks to chart the development of the English conception of a right to keep and bear arms, which clearly has influence upon the 2nd Amendment. The history of the English right is fascinating. It began as an onerous duty that many Englishmen resented and Malcolm traces the development of the right during the violent 17th century during which many Englishmen were disarmed as a means to stem any armed opposition. The right was created in 1689 as a means of ensuring that an armed citizenry would always be available to oppose a standing army. Funk's Commentary in the Howard Law Journal
From T. Markus Funk, "Is the Second Amendment Really Such a Riddle?Tracing the Historical "Origins of an Anglo-American Right" 39 Howard Law Journal 411 (1995): Authoritative writing, but minor flaws are irritating
Ms. Malcolm nicely lays out the history of the tension between English rulers and subjects over the control of weapons.She made me realize that the current dispute in this country over access to firearms has a longpedigree.Her depiction of the circumstances under which England, in 1689,declared the right to bear arms "true, ancient, and indubitable,"when in fact it was none of those is particularly interesting.(See p.115.)She provides evidence for her view that "it is particularlyironic that some modern American lawyers have misread the English right tohave arms as merely a 'collective' right inextricably tied to the need fora militia" (p. 119) when by 1689 the opposite was true.I'm not ahistorian or a gun enthusiast, but I find all of this quitefascinating.Read more

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Constitutional Law    3. General    4. History: World    5. Law    6. Legal History    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. U.S. - Political And Civil Rights    9. United States - General    10. History / United States / General    11. Human rights    12. Licensing, gaming & club law    13. Small firearms, guns & other equipment    14. USA    15. Violence in society   

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Exceedingly Well Written
Stuart Banner has taken a complex, 400+ year history of American Indian Land Acquisition and has abstracted the legal basis and the prevailing sociocultural worldviews of settlers, governments and aborigines to produce a work that we, today, can use to understand "How the Indians Lost Their Lands."This is a must read for anyone who has any official involvement with Native American Indians, or anyone who is interested in their,and our, history. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Government relations    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History - U.S.    5. History: American    6. Indian land transfers    7. Indians of North America    8. Land tenure    9. Legal History    10. Legal status, laws, etc    11. Native American    12. Real Estate - General    13. United States - General    14. American history: c 1500 to c 1800    15. History / United States / General    16. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    17. USA    18. c 1600 to c 1700    19. c 1700 to c 1800   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal History    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Roman law    5. Law / Legal History    6. Law | Legal History   

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A Fascinating View of the Supreme Court
For those of us who primarily hear about Supreme Court cases through the news or at school, it is easy to forget that the actual Court decision that emerges from a case is the complex interaction of nine individuals interpreting the law and the facts.This book explores in fascinating detail how the Supreme Court's landmark decisions are very much a human endeavor reflecting the different justices' world views.While Faigman uses the justices' understanding of science (or sometimes misunderstanding) in making their legal decisions as his primary prism to examine the Court, the book is anything but simply a "law and science" book.To me, it was much more about how the justices bring their individual strengths and weaknesses, their hopes and fears as human beings, to deciding cases with profound implications for society.I always had assumed, for example, that Justice Taney, who decided the infamous Dred Scott decision that saw slaves as property to be owned, must have been a bigoted villain.While Taney by no means emerges from Faigman's telling as a hero, he does become much more of a three-dimensional figure, one who had deep personal qualms about slavery but who, in a terribly misguided way, thought he was saving the Union by his opinion in Dred Scott.In chapter after chapter, Faigman similarly shows how Court decisions that we have all heard of, like Brown v. Board of Education, are much more than simply decisions reflecting "The Law," but reflect individual justices' struggles with changing scientific and social understandings. I don't know if the author meant the title "Laboratory of Justice" to have anothermeaning beyond looking at how the Court tries to adapt the law as science changes our understanding of the world around us, but as I read the book, I did find myself thinking of the justices not as the scientists running the "laboratory of justice" but as part of the experiment itself going on in the laboratory of justice. This is a superb book for anyone who wants to gain insight into the Court's workings as told by someone with a keen eye for interesting facts that are insightful and entertaining at the same time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Legal History    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Philosophy & Social Aspects    6. Science    7. Science & Technology    8. Science And Civilization    9. Science/Mathematics    10. U.S. Supreme Court   

Subjects:  1. Ancient - General    2. Ancient - Rome    3. Ancient Rome - History    4. Capacity and disability (Roman    5. Capacity and disability (Roman law)    6. Citizenship    7. Islam - Law    8. Law    9. Legal History    10. Popular works    11. Religion - World Religions    12. Roman law    13. Rome    14. Ancient Rome    15. Civil rights & citizenship    16. Cultural studies    17. History / Ancient / General   

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If you want an enjoyable, challenging novel, then read this!
"Arsenic Under the Elms" is thoroughly an intriguing, mind challenging read.I felt Virginia A. McConnell did a wonderful job presenting the known facts, as well as including her speculations, but leaving the final verdict up to the reader.The explanations of the era and how they dealt with these sorts of crimes, as well as how they dealt with it legally and medically were very educational and thought provoking.I'm sure many criminalists, physiologists, lawyers, judges, and crime scene analysts, would have a field day solving these crimes.If only they had the technology of today, back then.Even if your genre is not "true crime," this book is a great read.I recommend.

victorian true crime
this was a great book! I loved the comparison of how the world & justice worked in the time setting of the 2 stories versus how we have it now. I am fasinated by the victorian era & true crime. This book blended both into a very ingrossing experience. I can't wait to read her 2nd book "Sympathy for the Devil:the Emmanuel Baptist Murders." and hope there will be more after that!

Results are mixed...
The author's enthusiasm for these compelling stories is apparent in herresearch and writing.She brings to life two still-shocking crimes with arefreshing lack of sensationalism.However, the writing itself rarelyrises above the level of a bright college sophomore's term paper.Inspots, the editing is poor, for example, the author will reference factsthat hadn't been presented yet by that point in the book.Too much attemptis made to judge by modern mores and motives, sometimes implicitly andsometimes explicitly (repeated comparisons to the OJ Simpson trial, forexample)...further research into social history of the time would haveimproved the book.It's often not entirely clear what facts are documented(or how) and what is speculation, even with reference to the copiousfootnotes.Worth a read, but look for it at the library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Connecticut    3. Criminal Law    4. History    5. Law    6. Legal History    7. Murder - General    8. New Haven    9. New Haven (Conn.)    10. Poisoning    11. Poisons and poisoning    12. True Crime / Espionage    13. United States - 19th Century    14. History / United States / 19th Century    15. True Crime / General   

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An In Depth and Fair Look at Modern Legal History
This book is a masterpiece of modern legal history, effectively covering the fall of classicism and the rise and decline of progressivism in legal thought.This second in his series on the American Law is much less controversial than the first, and lends much to the in-depth scrutiny of the individuals behind progressivism in the period surrounding World Wars I and II.This is a must read for any law student with an interest in the foundations of what they learn every day. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Legal History    2. Legal System    3. Medical    4. Neuroscience    5. Philosophy Of Law    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Reference    8. United States - General    9. American history: c 1800 to c 1900    10. Law / Legal History    11. Law | Legal History    12. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    13. Social history    14. USA    15. c 1700 to c 1800    16. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Europe - Great Britain - General    3. Law    4. Legal History    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700    7. Crime & criminology    8. England    9. English law: criminal law    10. Law / Legal History    11. c 1600 to c 1700