This is the first book to explore the broad influence of computers and television on the evolution of the US legal process.

• Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy Part I Chronological Overviews 5 1 Reconsidering the Seventeenth Century: Legal History in the Americas 7 Elizabeth Dale 2 What s Done and Undone: Colonial American Legal History, 1700 1775 26 Sally E. Hadden 3 1775 1815 46 Ellen Holmes Pearson 4 The Antebellum Era Through Civil War 67 Alfred L. Brophy 5 Beyond Classical Legal Thought: Law and Governance in Postbellum America, 1865 1920 86 Roman J. Hoyos 6 American Legal History, 1920 1970 105 Christopher W. Schmidt Part II Individuals and Groups 125 7 Native Americans 127 Christian McMillen 8 African Americans in Slavery 152 Thomas J. Davis 9 African Americans in Freedom 171 James Campbell 10 Women s Legal History 190 Felice Batlan 11 Families 209 David S. Tanenhaus 12 Who Belongs? Immigrants and the Law in American History 228 Allison Brownell Tirres 13 The Legal Profession 247 Mark E. Steiner Part III Subject Areas 267 14 Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor 269 Christine Desan 15 Law and the Economy in the United States, 1820 2000 289 Harwell Wells 16 Law and Labor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 308 Deborah Dinner 17 Siting the Legal History of Poverty: Below, Above, and Amidst 329 Felicia Kornbluh and Karen Tani 18 Taxes 349 Robin L. Einhorn 19 Law and the Administrative State 367 Joanna L. Grisinger 20 Law and Religion 387 Steven K. Green 21 Legal History and the Military 406 Elizabeth L. Hillman 22 Criminal Law and Justice in America 422 Elizabeth Dale 23 Intellectual Property 441 Steven Wilf Part IV Legal Thought 461 24 Law and Literature 463 Jeannine Marie DeLombard 25 Legal Thought from Blackstone to Kent and Story 484 Steven J. Macias 26 American Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 506 James D. Schmidt 27 Critical Legal Studies 524 John Henry Schlegel 28 The International Context: An Imperial Perspective on American Legal History 543 Clara Altman Index 562.
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A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century. Presents up-to-date research describing the key debates in American legal history Reflects the current state of American legal history research and points readers in the direction of future research Represents an ideal companion for graduate and law students seeking an introduction to the field, the key questions, and future research ideas.
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• 1. Introduction: homogeneous corporate governance cultures--
• 2. Laying a foundation: why the board, why the statistics, and why diversification?--
• 3. Enter legal regulation: quota and disclosure-based approaches--
• 4. Norway's socio-legal journey: a qualitative study of boardroom diversity quotas--
• 5. Lessons from Norway: successes and limitations of the quota model--
• 6. Proxy disclosures under the US rule: a mixed-methods content analysis--
• 7. Contextualizing the content analysis results: norms, expressive law, and reform possibilities--
• 8. Conclusions: ongoing inquiry into quotas and disclosure regimes as regulatory models.
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The lack of gender parity in the governance of business corporations has ignited a heated global debate, leading policymakers to wrestle with difficult questions that lie at the intersection of market activity and social identity politics. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and documentary content analysis of corporate securities filings in the United States, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity empirically investigates two distinct regulatory models designed to address diversity in the boardroom: quotas and disclosure. The author's study of the Norwegian quota model demonstrates the important role diversity can play in enhancing the quality of corporate governance, while also revealing the challenges diversity mandates pose. His analysis of the US regime shows how a disclosure model has led corporations to establish a vocabulary of 'diversity'. At the same time, the analysis highlights the downsides of affording firms too much discretion in defining that concept. This book deepens ongoing policy conversations and offers new insights into the role law can play in reshaping the gendered dynamics of corporate governance cultures.
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• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Acronyms
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Howard B. Tolley, Jr.
• Foreword by Mark Warren
• Introduction
• Monism, Dualism, and the Human Rights System
• U.S. Human Rights Litigation since World War II
• Death Penalty
• 1: International Norms and Enforcement
• Death Penalty
• 2: International Norms in U. S. Courts
• Refugees
• 1: Asylum Norms and Enforcement
• Refugees
• 2: Detention and Return Litigation in U. S. Courts
• Conclusion
• Endnotes
• Human Rights Activists Asserting International Law in Death Penalty and Refugee Cases
• Index.

• pt. 1. Past debates and present stalemates: Why is there no history of pornography? / Joan Hoff
• Representing pornography: feminism, criticism, and depictions of female violation / Susan Gubar
• Pornography and the religious imagination / Mary Jo Weaver
• Social science and public policy: looking at the 1986 commission on pornography / Edna Einsiedel
• Pornography as a legal text: comments form a legal perspective / obin West
• pt. 2. Contemporary ramifications: Public opinion and pornography policy / Doris-Jean Burton
• Violent pornography: mimetic nihilism and the eclipse of differences / Richard B. Miller
• Beyond the Meese Commission Report: understanding the variable nature of pornography regulation / David Pritchard
• Pornography and existing law: what the law can do / Lauren Robel
• Fetishism and hard core: Marx, Freud, and the "money shot" / Linda Williams
• Mitigating the effects of violent pornography / Margaret Intons-Peterson and Beverly Roskos-Ewoldsen.

..". sophisticated, provocative, and thoroughly documented.... Strongly recommended... " --Choice ..". a welcome addition to the literature on this contentious issue." --Journal of Communication "This book does an excellent job of portraying the complexity of the legal and philosophical debates among women about the status and effects of pornography, and it is an important interdisciplinary scholarly contribution for that reason." --Signs In an attempt to advance our society's debate on pornography beyond the current political and legal stalemate, these essays examine explicit portrayals of violence in pornography from multidisciplinary perspectives: history, literary criticism, religious studies, ethics, political science, film studies, law, and psychology.
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• Should you sue?
• Kinds of lawsuits
• Damages and how you get them
• Legal representation
• Do you really need a lawyer?
• How much does justice cost?
• The cast of characters in a lawsuit
• The legal environment
• Background basics
• Court rules and civil procedure
• Small claims court
• The trial process
• Pretrial
• Proving your case : evidence
• The trial itself
• Coming to a decision
• After the trial
• Appeals
• After the dust clears
• Legal malpractice
• Alternatives to filing suit
• Negotiation
• Mediation
• Arbitration.

Successfully navigate the complex civil court system--Cover.
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This book provides a thorough legal analysis of the United States Migrant Interdiction Program, examining the United States' compliance with its obligations under municipal and international law as it interdicts individuals at sea, conducts status determinations, and returns those interdicted to their home countries. This book also examines the rights of the small number of refugees and individuals at risk of torture detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, awaiting resettlement in third countries. Policy-makers, students and scholars will benefit from this book's clarification of the legal obligations of nations engaged in extraterritorial status determination and detention, as well as its blueprint for compliance with international human rights and refugee law. As the first book of its kind devoted to the United States' interdiction program, this work represents an important contribution to scholarship in refugee law and policy, US constitutional law, international maritime law, and international human rights law.

• The lay of the land
• Scholarship
• In the classroom
• Faculty as institutional citizens
• Faculty as public citizens
• Faculty as employees.

Just about every department chair and dean, certainly every provost and president, and an ever-increasing number of faculty find themselves asking - or being asked - such questions as: "Do we need to talk to our lawyer about this?"; "What do the attorneys say?"; and "Why didn't you get the lawyers involved before now?". Dealing with issues ranging from academic freedom to job security and faculty discipline, lawyers, legal requirements and lawsuits has become an established part of the apparatus of American higher education. This volume was written to help faculty and administrators navigate critical legal issues and avoid potential legal pitfalls. Drawing on his experience as university counsel, administrator and teacher at a number of institutions, Steven G. Poskanzer explains the law as it pertains to faculty activities both inside and outside the academy, including faculty roles as scholars, teachers, and members of institutional communities, as well as employees and public citizens. In each of these areas, he expands his discussion of cases and decisions to set out his own views both on the current status of the law and how it is likely to evolve.
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In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law. The author's relation of public opinion and the executive policy regarding the much disputed law will help the reader reach a decision as to whether the law was actually a success or failure, legally and socially. Originally published in 1970.