History of the Common Law

History of the Common Law
Author: John H. Langbein
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 1310
Release: 2009-08-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0735596042

This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs.

Law Books in Action

Law Books in Action
Author: Angela Fernandez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-04-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847319238

'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular.

Perversions of Justice

Perversions of Justice
Author: Ward Churchill
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780872864115

Examines the faulty "reasoning" employed to legislate colonial control over North America's indigenous peoples and their lands.

Law's Picture Books

Law's Picture Books
Author: Michael Widener
Publisher:
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2017
Genre: Illustrated books
ISBN: 9781616191603

Collecting Yale Law Library's picture books / Michael Widener -- Reflections on an exhibition / Mark S. Weiner -- Ars Memoria in early law : looking beneath the picture / Jolande Goldberg -- Law's picture books and the history of book illustration / Erin C. Blake -- Law's picture books: The Yale Law Library collection. Symbolizing the law -- Depicting the law -- Diagramming the law -- Calculating the law -- Staging the law -- Inflicting the law -- Arguing the law -- Teaching the law -- Laughing-and crying-at the law -- Beautifying the law

A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University

A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University
Author: Julius J. Marke
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 1418
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1886363919

Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.