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Fathers of Conscience
This book offers a new look at the legal and cultural implications of bequests that crossed the color line. ""Fathers of Conscience"" examines high-court decisions in the …
Defending Constitutional Rights
Perceptive writings and opinions of a powerful figure in twentieth-century civil rights legislation Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama decided many of the most important …
James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist
A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war broke out. He then switched to a …
Free to Work
Examines efforts to establish free labour in the South during and after the Civil War. Schmidt discusses wartime reconstruction in Louisiana, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the …
The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000
This is the first book-length study of a federal district court to analyze the revolutionary changes in its mission, structure, policies, and procedures over the past four decades. …
From Maverick to Mainstream
Founded in 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee, the Cumberland School of Law is one of the oldest law schools in the Southeast of the USA, and has trained Supreme Court justices, senators …
Tyrannicide
Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the …
Gateway to Justice
The Juvenile Court of Memphis, founded in 1910, directed delinquent and dependent children into a variety of private charitable organizations and public correctional facilities. …
The Legal Ideology of Removal
This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous …
Local Matters
Justice blind to - or blinded by - race Drawing on previously untapped sources, these nine community studies represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be shaped …
The Trial of Democracy
Following the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through constitutional reform. This work looks at the forces and …