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Book Review: Law And Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes In World History, 1400-1900, Sam F. Halabi

Faculty Publications

Challenging scholars of both colonial history and globalization, Lauren Benton's Law and Colonial Cultures argues that state-centered legal orders emerged as a result of the presence of colonial powers, both European and non-European. She describes how the colonial state developed through jurisdictional conflicts between native judicial systems and colonial legal systems.

Why Don’T Doctors & Lawyers (Strangers In The Night) Get Their Act Together?, Frances H. Miller

Faculty Scholarship

Health care in America is an expensive, complicated, inefficient, tangled mess – everybody says so. Patients decry its complexity, health care executives bemoan its lack of coherence, physicians plead for universal coverage to simplify their lives so they can just get on with taking care of patients, and everyone complains about health care costs. The best health care in the world is theoretically available here, but we deliver and pay for it in some of the world’s worst ways. Occam’s razor (“Among competing hypotheses, favor the simplest one”) is of little help here. There are no simple hypotheses – everything …

The Law's Many Bodies, And The Manuscript Tradition In English Legal History, David J. Seipp

Faculty Scholarship

Sir John Baker's recent book The Law's Two Bodies supplies a happy occasion to celebrate and reflect on Professor Baker's unique place within the field of English legal history today

Students beginning their study of this subject can well imagine the long history of the English common law as an hourglass. The wide upper chamber of the hourglass is the rich, complex, intricate medieval law of the Year Books. The wide bottom chamber is the equally rich, complex, intricate but very different caselaw of the modem age. The narrow neck of the hourglass can be imagined as the mind of …

Book Review, Mark C. Modak-Truran

Journal Articles

Lucinda Peach addresses the issue of religious lawmaking by focusing on the constitutional implications and gender issues that she argues have been overlooked by the Supreme Court and by participants in the debate about religion in politics.

J'Accuse For The Bush Administration: A Review Of Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies: Inside America's War On Terror, Mark R. Shulman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

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Henry Minton, Departing From Deviance: A History Of Homosexual Rights And Emancipatory Science In America., Edward Stein

Articles

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Review Of Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor And The Shaping Of America’S Public-Private Welfare State, Frank W. Munger

Other Publications

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Book Review Of Post-Conflict Justice (C. Bassiouni, Ed.), Ruti G. Teitel

Other Publications

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