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Susan Bartie, Free Hands And Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars, John Henry Schlegel
Susan Bartie, Free Hands And Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars, John Henry Schlegel
Book Reviews
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A History Of Law And Lawyers In The Gatt/Wto. Edited By Gabrielle Marceau., Meredith Kolsky Lewis
A History Of Law And Lawyers In The Gatt/Wto. Edited By Gabrielle Marceau., Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Book Reviews
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Book Review, Lea Vaughn
Book Review, Lea Vaughn
Book Reviews
This review essay will proceed in three parts followed by a conclusion that assesses the success and contribution of her work. The first section sketches her approach to legal history and her point of view. Professor Blumenthal takes on the monumental task of challenging the received wisdom of legal historians such as Willard Hurst.
Second, this review will paint a condensed portrait of Blumenthal’s methodology. Her book and its underlying analysis draw on a breathtaking base of source materials: Hundreds of cases, treatises, and biographical notes are woven into her observations. The careful depiction and analysis of these materials is …
On The Battlefield Of Merit: Harvard Law School, The First Century, By Daniel R. Coquillette And Bruce A. Kimball, John Henry Schlegel
On The Battlefield Of Merit: Harvard Law School, The First Century, By Daniel R. Coquillette And Bruce A. Kimball, John Henry Schlegel
Book Reviews
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Philip Hamburger's Law And Judicial Duty: The Origins Of Judicial Review, Robert J. Steinfeld
Philip Hamburger's Law And Judicial Duty: The Origins Of Judicial Review, Robert J. Steinfeld
Book Reviews
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Jamie L. Bronstein's Caught In The Machinery: Workplace Accidents And Injured Workers In Nineteenth-Century Britain, Robert J. Steinfeld
Jamie L. Bronstein's Caught In The Machinery: Workplace Accidents And Injured Workers In Nineteenth-Century Britain, Robert J. Steinfeld
Book Reviews
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Understanding Buffalo's Economic Development (Review Essay), Thomas E. Headrick, John Henry Schlegel
Understanding Buffalo's Economic Development (Review Essay), Thomas E. Headrick, John Henry Schlegel
Book Reviews
Reviewing Diana Dillaway, Power Failure: Politics, Patronage, and the Economic Future of Buffalo, New York (2006).
Mark Curthoys' Governments, Labour, And The Law In Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation Of The 1870s, Robert J. Steinfeld
Mark Curthoys' Governments, Labour, And The Law In Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation Of The 1870s, Robert J. Steinfeld
Book Reviews
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Douglas Hay And Paul Craven's Masters, Servants, And Magistrates In Britain And The Empire, 1562–1955, Robert J. Steinfeld
Douglas Hay And Paul Craven's Masters, Servants, And Magistrates In Britain And The Empire, 1562–1955, Robert J. Steinfeld
Book Reviews
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Gunther Peck's Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones And Immigrant Workers In The North American West, 1880–1930, Robert J. Steinfeld
Gunther Peck's Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones And Immigrant Workers In The North American West, 1880–1930, Robert J. Steinfeld
Book Reviews
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Joanne Pope Melish's Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation And "Race" In New England, 1780–1860, Robert J. Steinfeld
Joanne Pope Melish's Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation And "Race" In New England, 1780–1860, Robert J. Steinfeld
Book Reviews
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Women In Law, Susan Carle
William J. Novak's The People's Welfare: Law And Regulation In 19th Century America (Book Review), Alfred S. Konefsky
William J. Novak's The People's Welfare: Law And Regulation In 19th Century America (Book Review), Alfred S. Konefsky
Book Reviews
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The Uses And Abuses Of Risk Management: How Men Learnt To Bet Against The Gods, Kenneth Anderson
The Uses And Abuses Of Risk Management: How Men Learnt To Bet Against The Gods, Kenneth Anderson
Book Reviews
This 1997 review in the Times Literary Supplement (London) conjoins two books - the first, by investment banker turned finance historian Peter L. Berstein, is a history of the idea of risk, as it developed from Renaissance times through contemporary finance. The second, by the former editor of the derivatives journal Risk, Lillian Chew, is an account of contemporary financial derivatives and their uses and abuses. The point of linking these two books in a single review is to point out that the basic ideas behind today's financial derivatives - forms of forwards, options, swaps, and so on - are …
A Tasty Tidbit (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
A Tasty Tidbit (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
Book Reviews
Reviewing Martin J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (1992).
The Marshall Court And The Writing Of Law And History (Review Of G. Edward White, The Marshall Court And Cultural Change, 1815-35, Vols. 3 And 4. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History Of The Supreme Court Of The United States), Alfred S. Konefsky
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Law And Culture In Antebellum Boston (Review Essay), Alfred S. Konefsky
Law And Culture In Antebellum Boston (Review Essay), Alfred S. Konefsky
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Review of Robert A. Ferguson, Law and Letters in American Culture; R. Kent Newmeyer, Supreme Court Justice joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic; and William H. Pease & Jane H. Pease, The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Syles in Boston and Charleston.
Representative Egos (Review Essay), George Kannar
Representative Egos (Review Essay), George Kannar
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Reviewing H.N. Hirsch, The Enigma of Feliz Frankfurter (1981); James F. Simon, Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas (1980).
On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky
On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky
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Review of Kermit L. Hall, The Politics of Justice: Lower Federal Judicial Selection and the Second Party System and Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky 1789-1816.
Stanley I. Kutler's Privilege And Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case And Francis N. Stites, Private Interest And Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819, Alfred S. Konefsky
Stanley I. Kutler's Privilege And Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case And Francis N. Stites, Private Interest And Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819, Alfred S. Konefsky
Book Reviews
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Gerald T. Dunne's Justice Joseph Story And The Rise Of The Supreme Court (Book Review), Alfred S. Konefsky
Gerald T. Dunne's Justice Joseph Story And The Rise Of The Supreme Court (Book Review), Alfred S. Konefsky
Book Reviews
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Walker Lewis's Speak For Yourself, Daniel (Book Review), Alfred S. Konefsky
Walker Lewis's Speak For Yourself, Daniel (Book Review), Alfred S. Konefsky
Book Reviews
No abstract provided.