Legal Classics
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The Trial of Jesus
$74.95Probably no trial in history has been the subject of as many books - not to mention films - as that of Jesus of Nazareth. Choosing among them for our reprint has not been easy. What tipped the decision toward THE TRIAL OF JESUS OF NAZARETH by Max Radin (1880-1950) […] -
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The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession
$74.95In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities began to impose a body of ethical obligations on […] -
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Hue and Cry: The Story of Henry and John Fielding and Their Bow Street Runners
$29.95Hue and Cry is the story of Henry and John Fielding, the two pioneers and reformers who created London's police force and brought law and order where chaos and corruption had prevailed - and thereby gave the citizens of London a freedom they had long lacked. London was a lawless city […] -
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The American Constitution As It Protects Private Rights
$39.95“…this constitution of ours is nor a mass of dry rules, but the very substance of our freedom; not obsolete, but in every part alive…The Constitution was made to free us, not to bind.” The author of these words, Frederic Stimson, wrote during an interesting time. Women could at last […] -
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The Collaborator
$29.95Should a literary collaborator with the worst of evils be punished? Executed? Martyred? These are the questions raised by the remarkable case of Robert Brasillach who was executed by the de Gaulle government following the liberation of Paris in 1944. Brasillach was one of France's most respected young writers during […] -
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The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
$39.95Charles Howard McIlwain, a professor of history and government at Harvard University from 1911 to 1948, wrote scholarly works with such clarity and style that today's readers continue to find great merit and interest in them. For close to 100 years, readers have benefited from McIlwain's thoughts on the subject of […] -
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The Queen v Louis Riel
$29.95"The treason trial of Louis Riel in 1885 was the Canadian equivalent, in many ways, of the trial of Aaron Burr in the early history of the United States. Riel was an important personage in Canadian history during the 1870s and early 1880s. He served both within and without the […] -
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
$19.95The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is one of the most notorious cases of the 20th century. Sidney B. Whipple’s The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann is the controversial case of the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. Originally published by a reporter who covered the story, it is mainly comprised […] -
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The Lost German Slave Girl
$29.95A case study of who could and who couldn't be a slave in the deeply regrettable practice of the early United States. Upon it's formation, lawyers and judges created an extensive jurisprudence regulating every detail of the ownership of and trade in human beings. The most fundamental legal issue with […]