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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, And The Administration Of The Modern Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, And The Administration Of The Modern Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra
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The First World War was a pivotal event for American political and economic development, particularly in the realm of public finance. For it was during the war years that the federal government ended its traditional reliance on regressive import duties and excise taxes as principal sources of revenue and began a modern era of fiscal governance, one based primarily on the direct and progressive taxation of personal and corporate income. Like other aspects of war mobilization, this fiscal revolution required an enormous infusion of national administrative resources. Nowhere was this more evident than within the corridors of the U.S. Treasury …
Anger, Irony, And The Formal Rationality Of Professionalism, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Anger, Irony, And The Formal Rationality Of Professionalism, Ajay K. Mehrotra
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Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part I, Michael Grossberg
Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part I, Michael Grossberg
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Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part Ii, Michael Grossberg
Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part Ii, Michael Grossberg
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The Boston Legal Aid Society was founded in 1900. In the years after 1910, led by General Counsel Reginald Heber Smith, the Society assumed leadership of the fledgling movement to offer legal services to the urban poor. Under its influence the first organized attack on the legal problems of the impoverished was launched. The effort had its origins in the social and professional crises that beset turn of the century American cities and lawyers. As described in the first installment of this article, the major difficulty facing the movement during this generative era was how to balance the conflicting demands …
Book Review. A History Of The School Of Law, Columbia University, Leon Harry Wallace
Book Review. A History Of The School Of Law, Columbia University, Leon Harry Wallace
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Book Review. The Growth Of American Law: The Law Makers By James Willard Hurst, Frank Edward Horack Jr.
Book Review. The Growth Of American Law: The Law Makers By James Willard Hurst, Frank Edward Horack Jr.
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The Challenge Of Jurisprudence: To Build A Science And Philosophy Of Law, Jerome Hall
The Challenge Of Jurisprudence: To Build A Science And Philosophy Of Law, Jerome Hall
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