Darryl E. Flaherty. Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan.

2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 1241-1242
Author(s):  
Kyu Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Public Law

scholarly journals Engineering Spelled Out

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (11) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Henry Petroski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Alphabetical Order ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Writing Standards ◽  
Military Engineering

This article presents an alphabetical order as a type of abecedary of brief essays on concepts and practices that are central to mechanical engineering. Codes and Standards is one of the topics, which highlights that the development of standards is generally identified as a sign of professionalism, in which voluntary committee efforts go toward writing standards that are adopted widely. The Mechanical Engineering essay explains that with the rise of specialization, civil engineers focused on alignment, grades, roadbeds, and bridges, and mechanical engineers on locomotives and rolling stock. The development of such divergent interests led to the feeling that the civil engineering societies that initially encompassed all of non-military engineering could not satisfy an increasingly diverse membership. Hence, new and more specialized societies began to be established in the middle of the nineteenth century. The Symbols of Engineering essay explains that the legal profession is symbolized on many a courthouse façade by a representation of blindfolded Justice holding a pair of scales—and sometimes a sword in her other hand—an image that also has roots in Greek culture.

Ministerial Responsibility and Impeachment in Prussia 1848–63

1977 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Government ◽  
Ministerial Responsibility

This opening statement from Robert Mohl's study of ministerial responsibility, published in 1837, summed up an axiom of mid-nineteenth-century German liberalism. However, as Otto Pflanze has shown recently, most German liberals did not demand the political or parliamentary responsibility of ministers. They believed that legal responsibility, or the chambers' right to impeach ministers, would guarantee constitutional government and thereby fulfill their Rechtsstaat ideal, which called for the strict observance of public law.

The Law of Corporations

2019 ◽  
pp. 495-512
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Business Corporation ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Corporation Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
A Minor

This chapter discusses the development of corporate law in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1800, corporation law was a torpid backwater of law, mostly a matter of municipalities, charities, and churches. Only a bridge or two, a handful of manufacturing enterprises, a few banks, a few insurance companies, disturbed its quiet. The nineteenth century, however, was the age of the business corporation. By 1870, corporations had a commanding position in the economy. Private practice and legislation made the law of corporations. The courts played a minor role. No constitutional convention met, between 1860 and 1900, without considering the problem of the corporation. This was a nineteenth-century constant; it changed form, format, and its cast of characters, but there was a numbing sameness of theme.

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