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Law and Legal Studies

Historical law

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Includes English statutes and case reports from the 13th century on, early American case law (1700s to 1920s), classic legal treatises from the 18th and 19th centuries, and Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law.

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Selected recent publications

Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights From the Revolution to the Civil War by Richard D. Brown
Call Number: e-Book
ISBN: 9780300227628
Publication Date: 2017
Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 by Amalia D. Kessler
Call Number: e-Book
ISBN: 9780300224849
Publication Date: 2017
The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial by James Q. Whitman
Call Number: e-Book
ISBN: 9780300150100
Publication Date: 2008
Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land by John Hanson Mitchell
Call Number: e-Book
ISBN: 9781611687750
Publication Date: 2015

Last Updated: Jul 26, 2022 2:14 PM
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Subjects: Government Publications, Legal Studies, Public Policy & Administration

Tags: law, legal, subject