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 ...
This is the first booklength survey of the Anglo-American common law contract over its 800-year history, from genesis in 12th-century England to the present form in contemporary America. The volume presents a technically accurate yet readable analysis that focuses on how the form assumed by cont...
These disparate views correspond closely, in turn, with relevant differences between the administrative-law traditions respectively associated with Anglo-American common law and Continental civil law.doi:10.5131/AJCL.2014.0031Morag-Levine NogaThe American Journal of Comparative Law...
As always during its long history, English common law, upon which American law is based, has had to defend itself against the challenge of civil law's clarity and traditions. That challenge to our common law heritage remains today. To that end, Liberty Fund now makes available a clear and...
Reproducing a Fit Citizenry: Dependency, Eugenics, and the Law of Marriage in the United States, 1860-1920 Between the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, American state legislatures enacted a series of new laws that delineated a class of citizens who were deeme... MJ Lindsay - 《Law & ...
When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.
The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830-1910 later patterns of vertical disintegration, flexible specialization, and agglomeration economies that were identified by economic geographers as exemplary of the new face of industrial capitalism starting in the latter third of the twentieth...
Significantly, one of the most foundational documents in the history of the English colonial experience in the New World was not a literary "text" in the conventional sense of the word but rather a set of images: John White's ... R Bauer - 《American Literary History》 被引量: 7发表:...
sexuality. Rooted in earlier women’s temperance and moral reform traditions, the American Social Purity movement was influenced by the “rescue” work of British prostitution reformers like Josephine Butler and W.T. Stead and the revelations of international groups for the suppression of “white ...
That idea has since been incorporated cleanly into American common sense, yielding, among other benefits, one of my favorite Seinfeld bits. The Divinity School Address marked the end of Emerson’s thirteen-year ministerial career, as well as the beginning of his life as an essayist and ...