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A Review: Unequal Justice: Lawyers And Social Change In Modern America, Lawrence Mayberry Apr 1977

A Review: Unequal Justice: Lawyers And Social Change In Modern America, Lawrence Mayberry

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Unequal Justice is a social history of the legal profession from the emergence of The American Bar Association in the 1870's until the 1970's. Auerbach is a professional historian and not a member of the legal profession who writes history, nor is he a sociologist. But before his graduate work in history, the author entered and quickly left law school. The honesty with which he relates the experience and the competent research and analysis manifest in his work demonstrate that he writes this book from a perspective of understanding rather than of bitterness or indifference. In fact Auerbach's unique frame …


Book Review. The Transformation Of American Law, 1780-1860 By Morton J. Horwitz, Morris S. Arnold Jan 1977

Book Review. The Transformation Of American Law, 1780-1860 By Morton J. Horwitz, Morris S. Arnold

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Statutes As Judgments: The Natural Law Theory Of Parliamentary Activity In Medieval England, Morris S. Arnold Jan 1977

Statutes As Judgments: The Natural Law Theory Of Parliamentary Activity In Medieval England, Morris S. Arnold

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The proposition that late medieval English lawgivers believed themselves to be exercising a declarative function has been so frequently put forward and so widely accepted that it is in danger of being canonized by sheer dint of repetition; and thus one who would deny the essential validity of that notion bears the virtually insuperable burden of proof commonly accorded an accused heretic. Nevertheless, it will be argued here that natural law notions are attributed to the medieval English legislator with only the slightest support from the sources, and after only the most rudimentary and uncritical analyses of the implications of …


Book Review. De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Morris S. Arnold Jan 1977

Book Review. De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Morris S. Arnold

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