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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert Hovenkamp
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert Hovenkamp
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Beyond Backlash: Legal History, Polarization, And Roe V. Wade, Mary Ziegler
Beyond Backlash: Legal History, Polarization, And Roe V. Wade, Mary Ziegler
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Scaled Legislation & The Legal History Of The Common Good, Jill M. Fraley
Scaled Legislation & The Legal History Of The Common Good, Jill M. Fraley
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More Than Segregation, Racial Identity: The Neglected Question In Plessy V. Ferguson, Thomas J. Davis
More Than Segregation, Racial Identity: The Neglected Question In Plessy V. Ferguson, Thomas J. Davis
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Remembering The Fourth Circuit Judges: A History From 1941 To 1998
Remembering The Fourth Circuit Judges: A History From 1941 To 1998
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Plessy V. Ferguson – 100 Years Later, Hon. John Minor Wisdom
Plessy V. Ferguson – 100 Years Later, Hon. John Minor Wisdom
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Book Review, (Reviewing Norman Doe, Fundamental Authority In Late Medieval English Law (1990)), David K. Millon
Book Review, (Reviewing Norman Doe, Fundamental Authority In Late Medieval English Law (1990)), David K. Millon
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Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
Scholarly Articles
A great deal of important legal historical scholarship is doctrinal in focus, its objective being to chart the history of substantive common law rules. In this Article, Professor Millon suggests that doctrinal legal history is based implicitly on the modern positivist theory of law as a system of state-endorsed rules designed to resolve disputes in a consistent, predictable manner. He questions the validity of efforts to write the history of the premodern common law from this theoretical point of view.
Focusing on pre-seventeenth century civil cases, he finds that trial procedure seems to have allowed or even encouraged juries to …
Circumspect Agatis Revisted, David K. Millon
Slavery, Economic Development And The Law: The Dilemma Of The Southern Political Economists, 1800-1860, Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Slavery, Economic Development And The Law: The Dilemma Of The Southern Political Economists, 1800-1860, Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Washington and Lee Law Review
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A Critique Of Two Arguments Against The Exclusionary Rule: The Historical Error And The Comparative Myth, Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.
A Critique Of Two Arguments Against The Exclusionary Rule: The Historical Error And The Comparative Myth, Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
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