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Lockwood graduated from law school in Washington, D.C. and became one of the first female lawyers in the United States. In 1879, she successfully petitioned Congress to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, becoming the first woman attorney given this privilege. ...
Of perennial interest to lawyers is the changing nature of law and how a sophisticated legal system allows that change. Teeven suggests that contract law is an ideal focus for studying the evolution of common law because it is a microcosm of the process of the development of common law.Early...
At least a dozen Jewish physicians and lawyers practiced in Charleston. Elisha Levy, Mark Marks, and Solomon Moses, Jr., served consecutively as Charleston deputy sheriffs. From 1810 on, several Jews sat in the South Carolina legislature, and Lyon Levy was state treasurer from 1817 to 1822. ...
The study of legal history in English law schools was in turn revolutionized by S.F.CMilsom, who felt that the key to legal history was not to apply the skills of the present lawyer to the law of the past, but to attempt to get into the minds of previous generations of lawyers. ...
Discussion on the Causes of the American Civil War (1861–1865): Periodization of Historiography Introduction. The Civil War in the United States (1861鈥 1865) has been of considerable interest to historians, lawyers, economists, and political scientist... N Latypova - 《Vestnik Volgogradskogo Go...
She argues through her lawyers at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and the ACLU that the government lacks both a rational basis for the marriage act “much less a compelling interest” — the legal tests for treating members of one particular group differently from others. ...
Review of M.C. Mirow, Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America H Kritzer - 《Latin Americanist》 被引量: 0发表: 2005年 The Institutional Framework of Colonial Spanish America. The colonial stateSpain asserted its presence in America through an array of...
As the leading elites of the Massachusetts Bay began to experiment with theories of a state's sovereign duty of protection, a new generation of commercial lawyers developed arguments premised not on the equitable interests of America, but on the constitutional rights of state citizens. By the ...
For some discussion of this issue, see: Enid Campbell, “Lawyers’ Uses of History,”University of Queensland Law Journal6 (1968–1969),http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UQLJ/1968/1.pdf;Rob McQueen, “Why High Court Judges Make Poor Historians: The Corporations Act Case and Early At...