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No Bond But The Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870
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by Duke University Press
Hardcover (01 October, 2004)
Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth
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by Hill & Wang
Hardcover (01 April, 2001)
(4 reviews) 3.75 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Protectionism is Harmful to Minors: Though the scholarly discussions of legal cases were trying (pardon the pun) to get through,

Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from
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by Duke University Press
Hardcover (01 March, 2001)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Book is Well Written and Clearly Argued...: The role of nonmarket discrimination in shaping the historical evolution of racial economic differences has long been a central issue in economic history and labor economics.
Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court (American Constitutionalism
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by State University of New York Press
Hardcover (01 May, 2004)

Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents
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by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Hardcover (01 May, 1999)
(4 reviews) 3.25 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Good Primary Source Guide: Excellent book of primary sources. The author did not intend to put whole documents in this book. If you feel like you need the whole document,
Patterns of American Jurisprudence
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 February, 1997)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The power of law!: Historians, lawyers and cultural commentators--that includes you, politico types!--have tended to stray away from how law is both pathological and aetiological in America--a cause and consequence of American society.

Perversions of Justice : Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-american Law
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by City Lights Publishers
Paperback (01 January, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Churchill Really Delivers: This guy is absolutely one of the best writers about the US Empire--he is a hammer, pounding away at crypto-fascistic policy and propaganda.N
Pioneering a Global Vision: The Story of Baker & McKenzie
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by Harcourt
Hardcover (01 September, 1999)

Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History Of Plea Bargaining In America
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by Stanford University Press
Paperback (15 November, 2004)
Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case
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by Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback (01 February, 1990)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Fascinating look at the origin of corporate law: Kutler's book provides a very interesting look at the Charles River Bridge case,

Property and Freedom
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by Vintage
Paperback (13 June, 2000)
(22 reviews) 3.82 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Property and Freedom: Historical Perspective: Richard Pipes is one of the leading academic authorities on Russian and Soviet history.
Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 March, 2003)

Public Law in Germany, 1800-1914
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by Berghahn Books
Hardcover (01 April, 2001)
Railroads and American Law
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by University Press of Kansas
Hardcover (01 December, 2001)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Railroads and American Law: James Ely's Railroads and American Law investigates then relationship between the courts and America's first "big business" and the impact railroads had on the American legal landscape.

Roman Law in Context (Key Themes in Ancient History)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (28 September, 1999)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A very informative, but somewhat dry book: Johnston's book is basically organized into three sections, thought there is no mention of this structure in the table of contents.
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge
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by University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover (01 September, 2004)

Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts
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by New York University Press
Hardcover (01 July, 2002)
Seeking Justices: The Judging Of Supreme Court Nominees
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by University Press of Kansas
Paperback (01 October, 2004)

Silent Revolution : The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States
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by University of Chicago Press
Hardcover (27 July, 1988)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Story of the Destruction of Marriage: Herbert Jacob has presented a brilliant, scholarly analysis about how "no-fault" divorce laws became the law of the land - silently and insidiously.
Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law : Blackstone's Legacy to America
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by ACW Press
Paperback (25 December, 2003)

Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 September, 2001)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: My thoughts: A friend purchased gave this book to me as a congragulatory gift upon my entrance into law school. Drachman's work is well-researched.
Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identit
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by Basic Books
Paperback (03 April, 2001)
(17 reviews) 4.12 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: It's more than just "skull wars": This book is much needed. He posed questions that many people (both scientists and Native people) can't answer.

Slave Law in the American South: State V. Mann in History and Literature (Landmark
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by University Press of Kansas
Paperback (01 July, 2003)
Success Without Victory: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America
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by New York University Press
Hardcover (01 November, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Selected court cases outline his contentions: Part of the New York University Press "Critical America" series, Jules Lobel's Success Without Victory: Lost Legal Battles And The Long Road To Justice In America documents lost legal battles and the road to justice in America.

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 September, 1998)
(42 reviews) 4.6 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Monkey Myths: It is incredibly ironic that the Scopes trial, promised by both the prosecution and the defense to be a battle for the truth,
Tales from Kentucky Lawyers
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by University Press of Kentucky
Hardcover (01 November, 2003)

The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover (15 March, 2004)
The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 January, 1993)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An extraordinary treatment of law affecting native peoples: Having studied, taught and practiced Federal Indian law for nearly twenty years,

The Anglo-American Legal Heritage: Introductory Materials
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by Carolina Academic Pr
Hardcover (30 June, 2004)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Brilliant history of the Anglo-American legal tradition: I was a student in Professor Coquillette's English Legal History course last year,
The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 (Studies in Legal History
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by University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover (01 February, 2001)

The Birth of the English Common Law (Cambridge Paperback Library)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (24 November, 1988)
The Buffalo Creek Disaster : How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining
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by Vintage
Paperback (12 February, 1977)
(9 reviews) 4.56 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: There Are Good Attorneys . . .: My Civil Proceedure Prof. assigned this to us over Christmas Break so we could become familiar with "piercing the corporate veil",

The Burger Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
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by ABC-Clio Inc
Library Binding (01 November, 2000)
The Case Against Lawyers
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by Broadway
Hardcover (08 October, 2002)
(25 reviews) 3.64 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Case Against Lawyers: This is the best book I have ever read. This is what the personal injury attorneys running for political office like Sen John Edwards don't want you to see.

The Chief Sources of English Legal History (Law Classic)
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by Beard Books
Paperback (01 November, 2000)
The Collected Works of Justice Holmes : Complete Public Writings and Selected Judicial
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by University of Chicago Press
Hardcover (01 January, 1994)

The Constitution & Religion : Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and Stat
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by Prometheus Books
Paperback (01 October, 1999)
(3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: AUTHOR'S RESPONSE TO SECOND REVIEW FROM WHEATON, MD: I am extremely pleased with the review of the volume of which I am the Editor.
The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789-1801
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by University of Chicago Press
Paperback (15 February, 1999)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Constitutional History as it Really Happened: David Currie, a (beloved) professor at the University of Chicago Law School and perhaps the nation's foremost constitutional historians,

The Contract Clause in American History (Property Rights in American History: From
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by Garland Publishing
Library Binding (01 June, 1997)
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
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by Lawbook Exchange Ltd
Hardcover (01 April, 1998)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Astonishing, disturbing and subversive...: Forgot to add this to my Amazon list of "The Most Subversive Works Imaginable" (so check those out too!)

The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
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by Anchor
Hardcover (05 August, 1969)
(14 reviews) 3.36 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Worthwhile read: I really enjoyed Starkey's version of the trials. One complaint I have seen is the inaccuracy of this book, however,
The Digest of Justinian (2 Volume Set)
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by University of Pennsylvania Press
Paperback (01 February, 1998)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Masterpiece of Roman History: An must-have for anyone interested in legal history and/or Roman history. Truly a magnificent work.

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 April, 2001)
(5 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A masterpiece of historical exposition: There is little that I can add to what has already been written. Fehrenbacher is clear, thoughtful, and comprehensive.
The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes : A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American
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by Cambridge University Press
Hardcover (09 March, 1995)

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox : A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in
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by University of Chicago Press
Hardcover (01 June, 2002)
(2 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The more things change...: From the dying days of Russia's Tsarist courts in which the young Kafka sharpened his perception of the absurd,
The Fraternity: Lawyers And Judges In Collusion
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by Paragon House Publishers
Hardcover (30 September, 2004)

The Fuller Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (ABC-Clio Supreme Court Handbooks
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by ABC-Clio Inc
Hardcover (01 August, 2003)
The Huddled Masses Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights
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by Temple University Press
Paperback (01 December, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Great Book on Immigration and Civil Rights!: This is a first rate book on immigration. Even in tone, and written in a clear and accessible way,

The Illustrated Story of Copyright
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by St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback (22 March, 2002)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: One of the more important books of our time: "The Illustrated Story of Copyright" may be the most important book I read this year.
The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcrof
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by Rutgers University Press
Hardcover (01 April, 2004)

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