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The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 2 – November 25, 2002, The Opinion Nov 2002

The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 2 – November 25, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated November 25, 2002


The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 1 – October 23, 2002, The Opinion Oct 2002

The Opinion Volume 41 Issue 1 – October 23, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated October 23, 2002


Freedom Of Contract And Freedom Of Person: A Brief History Of “Involuntary Servitude” In American Fundamental Law, Robert J. Steinfeld Apr 2002

Freedom Of Contract And Freedom Of Person: A Brief History Of “Involuntary Servitude” In American Fundamental Law, Robert J. Steinfeld

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 14 in Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850, Jürgen Heideking, James A. Henretta & Peter Becker, eds.

Liberal ideas are normally taken to have played an important role in the development of free markets, and of free labor based on contract in those markets. A closer look at labor regimes in the nineteenth century, however, reveals that liberal commitments to freedom did not straightforwardly produce what we today would think of as free labor. Just as often they produced a form of coerced contractual labor. And this was quite simply because liberal commitments …


The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 4 – February 1, 2002, The Opinion Feb 2002

The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 4 – February 1, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue from 2002. Original publishing date unknown.


The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 3 – January 1, 2002, The Opinion Jan 2002

The Opinion Volume 54 Issue 3 – January 1, 2002, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue from 2002. Original publishing date unknown.


Women In The Law: Milestones And Information, Colleen Kristl Pauwels Jan 2002

Women In The Law: Milestones And Information, Colleen Kristl Pauwels

Historic Documents

Colleen Pauwels was the Director of the Jerome Hall Law for more than 30 years and wrote and researched about the history of the Maurer School of Law. This document details names and dates of major milestones of women in the law from 1892-1988.


Occasional Publications Of The Bounds Law Library, Number Three: The Private Life Of A New South Lawyer: Stephens Croom's 1875-1876 Journal, Cicero Stephens Croom, Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham Jan 2002

Occasional Publications Of The Bounds Law Library, Number Three: The Private Life Of A New South Lawyer: Stephens Croom's 1875-1876 Journal, Cicero Stephens Croom, Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham

Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library

Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Number Three contains a biographical and critical introduction to Stephens Croom (1839-1883) and the memoir/journal kept by Croom from 1875-1876. Cicero Stephens Croom was an attorney who lived and worked in Mobile, Alabama. His descriptions of the practice of law in Alabama state and federal courts and commentary of contentious issues shines a light on Alabama's legal history during one of the state's most difficult periods.