Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts
By George C. Christie (NHC Fellow, 1980–81), James E. Meeks, Ellen S. Pryor, and Joseph Sanders
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Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England
By Christopher W. Brooks (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages … Continued
Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?
Edited by Rex Martin (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) and David A. Reidy John Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls’s theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains … Continued
Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England, 1660-1753
By Lawrence Stone (NHC Fellow, 1990–91; 1991–92)
Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
By John D. French (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in … Continued
Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code
By John F. Matthews (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The Theodosian Code—a collection of Roman imperial legislation of the period from Constantine the Great to Theodosius II—is a fundamental source for understanding the legal, social, economic, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire. More than 2,700 of the 3,500 original texts of the Code survive, … Continued
Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
By A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law–both its practice and its history–as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the … Continued
William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century
By Wilfrid R. Prest (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) This is the first comprehensive account of the life and writings of William Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England remains the most celebrated and influential text in the Anglo-American common-law tradition. Based on the widest possible range of archival, manuscript, and printed sources, it presents a … Continued
Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary
By Katherine T. Bartlett (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) A law school textbook containing case law and commentary by feminist legal scholars. Compiled by Bartlett (Duke U. School of Law), Harris (U. of California at Berkeley School of Law), and Rhode (Stanford Law School), the text rejects the notion that women's issues can be separated from the … Continued
