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Beyond The Borders Of The Law: Critical Legal Histories Of The North American West (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
Beyond The Borders Of The Law: Critical Legal Histories Of The North American West (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
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Exploring The Origins Of America's Adversarial Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Exploring The Origins Of America's Adversarial Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
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Book Review: Witches, Wife Beaters, And Whores: Common Law And Common Folk In Early America, John R. Pagan
Book Review: Witches, Wife Beaters, And Whores: Common Law And Common Folk In Early America, John R. Pagan
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Book Review of Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America by Elaine Forman Crane
Lawyering In Place: Topographies Of Practice And Pleadings In Pittsburgh, 1775-1895, Bernard J. Hibbitts
Lawyering In Place: Topographies Of Practice And Pleadings In Pittsburgh, 1775-1895, Bernard J. Hibbitts
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Even in the digital age, lawyering is always located. Lawyers live and work in physical space, and they deal with other lawyers and with clients who also have at least some measure of physicalized existence. Distracted and ofttimes overwhelmed by written records, legal historians have traditionally paid little attention to the physical environment of lawyering, but under the influence of contemporary cultural factors this is beginning to change. Indeed, in light of recent works on American, English and even ancient law it may be time to recognize the birth pangs of a new interdisciplinary field that we might label “legal …
A Different Sort Of Justice: The Informal Courts Of Public Opinion In Antebellum South Carolina, Elizabeth Dale
A Different Sort Of Justice: The Informal Courts Of Public Opinion In Antebellum South Carolina, Elizabeth Dale
UF Law Faculty Publications
Studies of nineteenth century legal history assume that the antebellum South, and antebellum South Carolina in particular, had a legal culture shaped by honor culture and marked by the hierarchical assumptions and extralegal violence that honor culture engendered. In this article, I offer a modification of that well-established account. While I do not question the influence of honor on South Carolina's antebellum legal culture, I suggest that the state had a second, shame-based system of popular justice, in which women played a prominent role. As was the case with honor culture, this second form of extralegal justice, which I have …
I Hear A Rhapsody: A Reading Of The Republic Of Choice, Donald J. Herzog
I Hear A Rhapsody: A Reading Of The Republic Of Choice, Donald J. Herzog
Reviews
Readers coming to another volume by Lawrence Friedman might well expect a tightly crafted legal history. But this book is quite different. It offers a sweeping account of the transformation of modern law, a synoptic overview of what is finally distinctive about our legal culture, even a broadbrushed portrait of Western individualism. It does so breathlessly, in prose style and velocity. It's sometimes an engaging read, sometimes a distressing one, but-and here's what really matters-never a persuasive one. Or, worse yet, when it is persuasive it's because of its poetic and ideological features, not any kind of rigorous analysis.