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The Grand Experiment Law And Legal Culture In British Settler Societies, Hamar Foster, Benjamin Berger, A. Buck
The Grand Experiment Law And Legal Culture In British Settler Societies, Hamar Foster, Benjamin Berger, A. Buck
Benjamin L Berger
In the late nineteenth century, the English legal historians Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland coined the phrase "the grand experiment" to describe the spread of English law throughout the British Empire. For Pollock and Maitland, this was an unequivocally positive process that would uplift settler societies. The work of recent legal historians, however, has alerted us to the more complex impact English law had on the peoples, both settler and indigenous, of those colonial societies. This "new colonial legal history" has revealed subtle and more ambiguous understandings of "the grand experiment." The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new …
U.S. Police Officers Kill Primarily Because They Are Attacked, Not To Disrupt Crime, Alev Dudek
U.S. Police Officers Kill Primarily Because They Are Attacked, Not To Disrupt Crime, Alev Dudek
Alev Dudek
Portia Goes To Parliament: Women And Their Admission To Membership In The English Legal Profession, Christine Corcos
Portia Goes To Parliament: Women And Their Admission To Membership In The English Legal Profession, Christine Corcos
Christine A. Corcos
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From Agnatic Succession To Absolute Primogeniture: The Shift To Equal Rights Of Succession To Thrones And Titles In The Modern European Constitutional Monarchy, Christine Corcos
From Agnatic Succession To Absolute Primogeniture: The Shift To Equal Rights Of Succession To Thrones And Titles In The Modern European Constitutional Monarchy, Christine Corcos
Christine A. Corcos
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