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Legal History Blog: Roscoe Pound and the Administrative State
Many legal historians find themselves face to face with Pound at some point in their research. For legal historians of the American administrative state, he is an inescapable presence because of the harshly critical report he published as chairman of the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Administrative Law in 1938.
Jason Burton & David A. Zonderman, Where Did This Law Come From? A History of General Statute 95-98
History behind North Carolina statute barring collective bargaining agreements covering state and local government employees.
Gangs of America by Ted Nace - the rise of Corporate Power and the disabling of democracy
Gangs of America describes the expansion of corporate legal empowerment onto the global stage through international agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, which boosted the legal powers of corporations to the level of sovereign nation
SSRN-Fast-Fish, Loose-Fish: How Whalemen, Lawyers, and Judges Created the British Property Law of Whaling by Robert Deal
Anglo-American whalemen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used customs largely of their own creation to resolve disputes at sea over contested whales. These customs were remarkably effective as litigation was rare and violence even rarer. Legal s
In These Times > Dixie Media Versus Unions
"A new book reveals how Southern media have strengthened the region's corporatocracy." Review of Joseph Atkins, Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press
Mary Matsuda, Law and Culture in the District Court of Honolulu, 1844-1845: A Case Study of the Rise of Legal Consciousness
32 Am. J. Legal Hist. 16 (1988)
SSRN-Cowboy Jurists
This paper identifies the origins of modern Canadian legal professionalism in the prairie west during the early twentieth century, arguing for the importance of human agency and emphasizing contingency where others assert trans-historical processes. Lawye
SSRN-Empirical Legal Studies Before 1940: A Bibliographic Essay by Herbert Kritzer
The modern empirical legal studies movement has well-known antecedents in the law and society and law and economics traditions of the latter half of the 20th century. Less well known is the body of empirical research on legal phenomena from the period pri
Racial Romanticism
Civil rights history does not divide neatly into pre-1968 light and post-1968 darkness. A response to Richard Kahlenberg.
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