The Emerging Legal History of Women in the United States: Property, Divorce, and the Constitution

Signs ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma Basch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of

Judges, Juries, and the History of Criminal Appeals

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-302
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Berger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early History ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
History Of

The three articles offered in this forum on the early history of criminal appeals do us the great service of adding much of interest on this important but neglected issue in the development of Anglo–North American criminal procedure. The opaqueness of the legal history of criminal appeals stands in stark contrast to their centrality and apparent naturalness in contemporary criminal justice systems in England, Canada, and the United States. These three papers look at the period leading up to and immediately following the creation of the first formalized system of what we might call criminal appeals, the establishment of the Court of Crown Cases Reserved (CCCR) in 1848. This key period in the development of the adversary criminal trial was marked by both a concerted political effort to codify and rationalize the criminal law and by profound structural changes in the management of criminal justice.

Presidential Address: The Lierature of the Last Half-century of the Constitutional History of the United States

1957 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 159-182
Author(s):  
H. Hale Bellot
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Separate Paper ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
History Of

In order to render my subject manageable, I have excluded from it the literature dealing with legal history, with the general history of political ideas, and with the constitutional and political debates that preceded and accompanied the American Revolution. Each of these is a large subject in itself and would, require for its most summary treatment a separate paper. I limit myself to what has been written during the last fifty years or so about the constitutional history of the Union and of the states in their relation to the Union since the year 1783.

A Legal History of Money in the United States, 1774-1970

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
James Willard Hurst
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of

A Legal History of Money in the United States, 1774-1970.

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter T. K. Nugent ◽  
James Willard Hurst
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of

A Legal History of Money in the United States, 1774-1970

1975 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
Peter Temin ◽  
James Willard Hurst
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of

Gastbeitrag: A Letter from America

2015 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 441-462
Author(s):  
James Q. Whitman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
German History ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
American Life ◽  
American Interest ◽  
American Law ◽  
History Of

This contribution describes the life and work of an American law professor who writes about European legal history. It is a sad truth that American interest in European scholarship has been in steady decline for some decades. The author remains a believer in the fundamental importance of European legal history despite that; the contribution describes his quarter century of research in the United States, and his efforts, not always successful, to convince his colleagues that Europe matters. After beginning his career working on the German history of Roman law, the author was drawn into topics that spoke more directly to the dilemmas and oddities of American life. Many of those topics involved the comparative legal history of dignity; more recently they have included work on criminal procedure and the law of war.

scholarly journals Recognising Multi-textualism: Rethinking New Zealand's Legal History

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 547582
Author(s):  
Richard Boast
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
History Of

In this article the author discusses various written agreements that the New Zealand government has entered into with Māori since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. It is argued that the legal history of New Zealand is more "multi-textual", and more like Canada, the United States, and Argentina than is often thought. It is argued also that the process of agreement-making has been a continuously evolving one and at the present day is more important than ever. The article distinguishes between various types of Crown-Māori agreements and explores which of them are more Treaty-like than others.

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