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Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Third Edition, is a two-volume companion to Urofsky and Finkelman’s successful text, A March of Liberty, Second Edition. Organized chronologically, this documents reader skillfully weaves together constitutional and legal history, offering students a mix of both frequently cited and lesser-known–but equally important–historical documents and court decisions that have been instrumental in shaping the nation’s … More >>

Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History: Volume 1: From the Founding to 1896

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Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation “horror stories” create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is a nation not of litigious citizens, but of litigious policies–laws that promote the use of litigation in resolving disputes and implementing public policies. This book i… More >>

Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle over Litigation in American Society

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When the first volume of Morton Horwitz’s monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an “extremely valuable book.” Library Journal praised it as “brilliant” and “convincing.” And Eric Foner, in The New York Review of Books, wrote that “the issues it raises are indispensable for understanding nineteenth-century America.” It … More >>

The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy

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Designed for those who are not lawyers, accountants, or quasi-legal specialists, this book outlines the elements of risk management for congregations and church professionals. Divided into three parts, the guide provides an overview and history of the American legal system, details various areas of the law, and focuses on ways religious organizations can minimize their exposure to legal difficulties…. More >>

Ministry and the American Legal System

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This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan Garrison, is too often molded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate, including President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee leader John Ross, and United States Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. This common view minimizes the impact on Indian sovereignty… More >>

The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations

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Firmly anchored in social science concepts, the second edition of The American Legal System demonstrates the relationships among private law, the business legal environment, and public law issues, as well as related subjects of interest. This fifteen-chapter book is divided into three parts…. More >>

The American Legal System: Perspectives, Politics, Processes, and Policies

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In a little over two hundred years, American legal thought moved from premodernism through modernism and into postmodernism. This book charts that intellectual voyage, stressing both the historical contexts in which ideas unfolded and the inherent force of the ideas themselves. Author Stephen M. Feldman first defines “premodernism,” “modernism,” and “postmodernism,” then explains the development of American legal thought through these three intellectual periods. … More >>

American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage

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The only dictionary of its kind, Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Legal Dictionary is sure to become the definitive ASL reference for legal matters from criminal law to real estate. Whether it is used in the courtroom, classroom, office, or home, Elaine Costello’s unrivaled dictionary bridges language gaps in legal matters between the deaf community and their families, colleagues, and community. The third in a successful series of specialized sign langu… More >>

Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Legal Dictionary

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Hate Crime to Legal Realism, Vol. 6 of Wests Encyclopedia of American Law

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Title: Digest of Legal Opinions of Thomas B. Paton, General Counsel of the American Bankers Association, Which Have Been Published in the Issues of the Journal of the American Bankers Association From July, 1908, to June, 1919, Inclusive, With an Index; Publisher: New York : American Bankers Association Publication date: 1919 Subjects: Banking law — United States Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrati… More >>

Digest of Legal Opinions of Thomas B. Paton, General Counsel of the American Bankers Association, Which Have Been Published in the Issues of