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"Legal History" Or The History Of Law: A Primer On Bringing The Law's Past Into The Present, Stephen B. Presser
"Legal History" Or The History Of Law: A Primer On Bringing The Law's Past Into The Present, Stephen B. Presser
Vanderbilt Law Review
The increasing opportunities to teach legal history in law schools and the lamentable decline of positions available to historians in undergraduate institutions have resulted in more historians either teaching in law schools or combining graduate training in history with graduate training in law. As a result, several methodologies or approaches to legal history have emerged. Although legal history has generated a great deal of comment, few have written about how this spate of scholarship and criticism might affect law school teaching. This Article attempts to categorize and to review,therefore, the kinds of insights that American legal history currently offers both …
Managing The Public Lands: The Authority Of The Executive To Withdraw Lands, David H. Getches
Managing The Public Lands: The Authority Of The Executive To Withdraw Lands, David H. Getches
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Book Review. Legal History And The Law Of Blasphemy, Morris S. Arnold
Book Review. Legal History And The Law Of Blasphemy, Morris S. Arnold
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Commercial-paper played a significant role in antebellum America by partially filling the void resulting from the shortage of gold and silver coinage and the absence of a reliable paper currency. Although most legal historians would agree with this premise, a controversy has arisen in recent years concerning negotiability, that collection of legal rules which greatly enhanced the usefulness of bills of exchange and promissory notes in commerce and finance.
Many scholars believe that negotiability, along with other pre-Civil War legal doctrines, was intended to facilitate the development of a national market system and economic growth. This view typically holds that …