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The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest) Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case Of Myra Clark Gaines (Southern Biography) by Elizabeth Urban Alexander, 2004-08-30 The Times And Trials Of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided (Landmark Law Cases & American Society) by Michael P. Winship, 2005-03-07 A Judgment for Solomon: The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) by Michael Grossberg, 1996-02-23 The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President by Julie M. Fenster, 2008-12-23 Historical and Legal Examination of That Part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case by Thomas Hart Benton, 2003-01 Execution: One Man's Life And Death by John Pugh, Michael Davies, 2005-01

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21. Book Review The American Historical Review, 107.3 The
    In the cases of Strafford, Archbishop Laud, and The 1710 show trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell clearly demonstrates the importance of legal history for political  
    http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/107.3/br_97.html
    
    Extractions: Set up your online account for the first time. AHA members can go to the AHA individual membership section to locate their member numbers. If you are not a member of the American Historical Association, you can: Join the AHA and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the American Historical Review. Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the American Historical Review (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the American Historical Review. Instititutions can: Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.

22. Legal History - Law - University Of Alberta Libraries
    Online databases of theses on legal history are historical trials Relevant to Today s Issues KF 02 2 criminal, political, and family law trials from Britain  
    http://www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/law/history/index.cfm

23. RICHARD F. HAMM HOME PAGE
    Press for the Studies in legal history series, 1995 Custom in Four Notable Virginia Murder trials, 18681937 The Register of the Kentucky historical Society 88  
    http://www.albany.edu/history/hist_fict/
    
    Extractions: Email: hamm@cscpop.albany.edu INTERESTS: As a scholar, I am most interested in the interplay of law and society in the American past. Much of my work has focused on social values or movements and the legal system. Currently, as I revise my book on Virginia murders, I am working on a book length study of the National Woman’s Party and its litigation campaign in the 1930s to make women’s service on juries a federal right under the 14th Amendment. EDUCATION: B.A., History, Florida Atlantic University , 1977, Faculty Scholars Program. M.A., American History, Ohio State University Thesis: Constitutional Provisions for the Removal of Officers, 1776-1800, directed by Professor Bradley Chapin Ph.D., American History, University of Virginia Dissertation: Origins of the Eighteenth Amendment: The Prohibition Movement in the Federal System, 1880-1920 , directed by Professor Charles McCurdy MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: "Southerners and the Shaping of the 18th Amendment,"

24. Explaining The Flood Of Asbestos Cases
    asbestos the largest mass tort in US legal history. Consolidation, Bifurcation and Bouquet trials (NBER Working jurisdictions have thousands of cases on their  
    http://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/w9362.html

25. American Legal History 1600-1865 - Professor Bernard Hibbitts
    HLaw/American Society for legal history; history of American Salem Witch trials Chronology; Slave Narratives; US historical Documents; US Supreme Court  
    http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/alh16.htm
    
    Extractions: This course will survey American legal history from colonial times to the end of the Civil War, emphasizing the ongoing relationship between legal development and general social, economic, political and intellectual trends. Topics to be covered in this process include the early New England legal codes, the origins of American slavery, the place of women in colonial law, the Salem witchcraft trials, the rise of the American legal profession in the eighteenth century, the impact of economic growth and industrialization on early nineteenth-century American legal doctrine, the development of the American prison system, the codification movement, and the methodology of American legal education prior to the Civil War. Evaluation will be by final examination.

26. The Case Of Leonard Peltier | Reading Room
    Author Jim Messerschmidt compares the two trials (ButlerRobideau one of the most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history, In the  
    http://www.freepeltier.org/reading_room.htm
    
    Extractions: Send This Site! Historical Time Line : Online Reading Case Reference Materials FOIA Documents Recent FOIA ... Ethics Complaint : FBI Misconduct and Disinformation Testimony Transcripts : Congressional Briefing on Leonard Peltier, May 17, 2000 Extradition References Evidentiary Hearing Transcript from the Hearing: Pages 1 through Trial Transcript Statements of Support Recommended Books SOCH Newspaper : Back Issues Online Links to Other Articles Online Videos : Recommended Conventional Viewing Multimedia Room : Recommended Listening/Viewing Reading Room 1 Reading Room 2 Reading Room 3 Supporters of Leonard Peltier continue to express grave concerns with regard to the denial of justice and due process to Mr. Leonard Peltier, and his ongoing detention at Leavenworth Penitentiary. Mr. Peltier has been incarcerated for twenty-seven years, despite the clear indications of misconduct, including the falsification of evidence, by various U.S. officials which lead to his conviction, as set forth in Attorney Jennifer Harbury's

27. Some Famous Medical Trials
    Some Famous Medical trials By Leonard A. Parry 2000/09 Beard This title is part of the legal history list and chosen with a view to their historical and legal  
    http://www.beardbooks.com/some_famous_medical_trials.html
    
    Extractions: US$34.95 These problematic cases are as valuable to the student of legal medicine and to the amateur criminologist as they are irresistible to the lover of grim and gruesome melodrama. Publisher Comments Categories: Healthcare Law This title is part of the Legal History list. Of Interest: A Hundred Years of Medicine Landmarks in Medicine: Laity Lectures of the New York Academy of Medicine In this fascinating book, Dr. Leonard A. Parry, a physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, brings to light many interesting cases that have been passed over by the more general chronicler. Thirty-two cases, spanning the years 1615 to 1924 and chosen with a view to their historical and legal significance, give an excellent idea of the evolution of criminal jurisprudence in England. Dr. Parry appeals not only to one's curiosity for the morbid and the thrilling, but also to one's analytic instincts by taking a judiciously legalistic approach to his subject matter. As a physician, he has naturally focused on the medical evidence in the cases, while underlining the problematic and intellectual aspects. Not all deal with murder. They present a panoply of treason, medical forgery, abortion, rebellion, torture, libel, and assault. Based on a well-planned and well-balanced record of original sources, the cases are as valuable to the student of legal medicine and to the amateur criminologist, as they are irresistible to the lover of grim and gruesome melodrama.

28. Hurst: The Law Of Treason: Preface
    of the considerable accumulation of historical materials The TwoWitness Rule in English Treason trials, 12 American Journal of legal history 95 (1968  
    http://www.constitution.org/cmt/jwh/jwh_treason_pre.htm
    
    Extractions: Preface IN 1943 FOR THE first time the United States Supreme Court undertook to review a conviction for treason. The Court granted a writ of certiorari in Cramer v. United States Cramer v. United States , 325 U. S. 1, 8, note 9 (1945) took note of the relation between the work of several scholars in addition to that of counsel: Counsel for petitioner [Mr. Harold R. Medina], although assigned by the trial court, has responded with extended researches. The Solicitor General engaged scholars not otherwise involved in conduct of the case [including Dr. Elio Gianturco, Research Assistant to the Foreign Law Section of the Law Library of Congress, Dr. V. Gsovski, Chief of the Foreign Law Section of that Law Library, and Dr. Stephan G. Kuttner, Professor of the History of Canon Law, The Catholic University of America] to collect and impartially to summarize statutes, decisions and texts from Roman, Continental, and Canon Law as well as from English, Colonial, and American law sources.... Counsel have lightened our burden of examination of the considerable accumulation of historical materials. These essays owe much to the invaluable assistance given in their preparation by Professor Eldon James, then Law Librarian of Congress, and members of his staff. For the opportunity to prepare material on developments in the law since the

29. His 300 Introduction To Historical Studies - Bibliography
    Elaine G. Breslaw, ed. Witches of the Atlantic World A historical Reader Primary Sourcebook. The Salem Witchcraft trials A legal history.  
    http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/Bill.Mulligan/His300bib.htm
    
    Extractions: William Bentley. The Diary of William Bentley . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1962. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. Salem Village Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 , 3 vols. Civil Liberties in America Series. New York: Da Capo, 1977. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England . Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993. George Lincoln Burr, ed.. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 . New York: Charles Scribners’ Sons, 1914, reprinted Barnes and Noble, 1975. Robert Calef. More Wonders of the Invisible World James F. Cooper and Kenneth P. Minekama, eds. The Sermon Notebooks of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694 . Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. Samuel G. Drake, ed. Witchcraft Delusion in New England . Roxbury, MA: W. E. Woodward, 1866.

30. RACE ON TRIAL: LAW AND JUSTICE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
    chapters on twelve wellchosen trials that connect life stories with their historical and political addition to courses on legal history, constitutional law  
    http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/gordon-reed-annette.htm
    
    Extractions: Vol. 13 No. 7 (July 2003) RACE ON TRIAL: LAW AND JUSTICE IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Annette Gordon-Reed (Editor). New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 234 pp. Cloth $55.00. ISBN: 0-19-512279-8. Paper $19.95. ISBN: 0-19-512280-1. Reviewed by Daniel Lipson, Department of Political Science, Kalamazoo College. Email: dlipson@kzoo.edu Throughout our nation's history, few events have captured Americans' attention more than "race on trial." Whether DRED SCOTT, PLESSY, BROWN, LOVING, KOREMATSU, the O.J. Simpson trial, or last month's GRATZ and GRUTTER cases on the University of Michigan affirmative action policies, cases and controversies regarding slavery, segregation, miscegenation, internment, violent crime, police abuse, and affirmative action have struck a chord in the American character. Most of the cases in Annette Gordon-Reed's RACE ON TRIAL: LAW AND JUSTICE IN AMERICAN HISTORY have been thoroughly examined by legal studies scholars. Indeed, much of the groundbreaking work by legal studies scholars has moved legal scholarship forward by examining what is lost by relying on seminal court cases as the central source of legal data, uncovering the law as it operates in practice after courts issue their rulings and in areas where there are no court rulings. Yet this volume returns to the formal analysis of court cases. Gordon-Reed acknowledges the important drawbacks in "studying the operation of law – created, practiced, and administered as it is by elites – as a firm guidepost to what is actually going on in a culture" (p.4). Nonetheless, this important critique of an elite-based analysis of formal law is sidelined, as the book focuses on twelve trials. She defends this formal case method of legal and racial analysis by asserting that "cases – trials in particular – provide critical insights into the values, mores, obsessions, and aspirations (lived up to and not) of members of the community at particular moments in history" (p.4). The remaining chapters could be improved through greater attention to the ways in which a law-in-action approach would supplement or challenge the authors' analyses.

31. Vol. 12 No. 11 (November 2002) THE JURIDICAL UNCONSCIOUS TRIALS
    a variety of theoretical sources from history, literature, psycholanalysis the usual historical or legal analysis, preferring trial, or at least trials in which  
    http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/felman-shoshana.htm
    
    Extractions: Others who have written about celebrated trials have pointed in the direction that Felman has now fully articulated, but no one has pushed the analysis of the unconscious of the trial in the fruitful ways Felman has. Not everyone will be sympathetic to her arguments/analysis, but it is fair to say that no one working at the intersection of law and social science can afford to ignore them. Not only do they provide a theoretical lens that has been missing in the analysis of trials, they show Felman to know the details of the trials about which she writes. She has a firm handle on the legal meaning and nuance of those trials. She sacrifices nothing in the way of legal sophistication to achieve her theoretical objectives. THE JURIDICAL UNCONSCIOUS begins with a reading of Walter Benjamin. More and more legal scholars are turning to Benjamin, parsing his dense and difficult essay on the critique of violence for its insights about the various forms of law’s intimate connection to violence. Felman turns to Benjamin for another purpose, to examine his thought about the connection of history and justice or, more precisely, about how the claims of justice speak in and through history. In her view, one of the urgencies of law in the late twentieth century was “to put history on trial.” (P. 11). Nuremberg was, she suggests, the turning point. It changed our conception of what law and trials could and should do.

32. The Great New York Conspiracy Of 1741
    the most extensive slave trials in colonial history and some the dramatic story of those landmark trials, setting the events in their legal and historical  
    http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/hofgre.html
    
    Extractions: Paper ISBN 0-7006-1246-7, $14.95 SELECTION OF THE HISTORY BOOK CLUB The suspected conspiracy in New York prompted one of the most extensive slave trials in colonial history and some of the most grisly punishments ever meted out to individuals. Peter Hoffer now retells the dramatic story of those landmark trials, setting the events in their legal and historical contexts and offering a revealing glimpse of slavery in colonial cities and of the way that the law defined and policed the institution. Among other things, Hoffer reveals how conspiracy became a central feature of the law of slavery at the same time as it reflected the white belief that slaves were always conspiring against their masters. He draws on uniquely revealing firsthand accounts of the trials to both retell a gripping story and open a window on colonial American justice. He leads readers through a chain of events involving robbery and arson that culminated in the trials of a group of white men suspected of inciting the slaves to revolt. The episode, so vital to our understanding of a time when slavery was an entrenched institution and the law made even the angry muttering of slaves into a criminal act, has much to tell us about current affairs as well. African slaves in colonial times were viewed by authorities and citizens much as some foreigners are today: inherently dangerous, easily identifiable, and constantly conspiring.

33. HLS Library: Digital Projects
    a small fraction of the 12,000 volumes of historical trials held at history in Deed. century conveys not only important historical legal information regarding  
    http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/digital/
    
    Extractions: @import url(/incl/templates/www.03/screen.css); Harvard Law School Jump to navigation HLS home library ... collections Library The Harvard Law School Library is becoming increasingly involved in the acquisition, development, and management of digital information. The Library's network now provides access to a growing database of free Web resources; to an expanding number of bibliographic databases, electronic data files, and full-text resources through the Harvard Libraries gateway ; to commercial online services licensed directly by the Library; and to a large assortment of CD-ROM publications. As a means of delivering timely and important information, legal scholarship online has become highly effective and is widely demanded. To date, digital resources of the Harvard Law School Library account for just over 5% of our total holdings. However, this percentage is expected to grow. Although digital materials at the Library take many forms, a distinction can be made between electronic resources that we subscribe to or license, and digital projects that we create in-house. Digital projects can be primarily represented in four different areas: Even though the distinctions separating these categories can many times be somewhat fuzzy (for instance, online exhibits usually involve converting some physical material), as a way of understanding the different types of digital projects undertaken here at HLSL they are a good place to start.

34. Criminal Justice
    Volume I addresses historical, Conceptual, and Theoretical This scholarly work discusses legal history (including the Great American trials REF KF 220 .G74  
    http://www.herr.alfred.edu/researchguide/AddMinor.cfm?Minor=Criminal Justice

35. Howard L Nations Law Firm - Legal History
    The Law Offices of Howard L. Nations is a law firm in Houston, Texas that specializes in catastrophic injury cases including amputation, blindness, brain injury, burns, birth trauma, spinal cord  
    http://www.howardnations.com/lawlinks/legal_history.html
    
    Extractions: Site Directory Nations' Law Links Causation Federal Government Injury Medical Research ... Texas Resources General Resources Academic Continuing Education Education for Adults and Children Entertainment ... Writing Aids Suggest a Link Report a Dead Link By clicking on the external links on this page, a separate window will open, leaving this page intact for further research. CataLaw

36. Famous Trials / John Brown
    of the nineteenth century, which became something of a legal milestone in http//www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jg20.html 23.9KB John Brown Trial (1859  
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/trialsindex.htm
    
    Extractions: LOS ANGELES (January 23, 2002 1:33 p.m. EST) - Saying Sara Jane Olson and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army charged with murder in a 1975 bank robbery were dedicated revolutionaries, Patricia Hearst said the group had their "own little jihad" going. Larry King Live Patricia Hearst Discusses Her Presidential Pardon

37. Legal History Guide
    to the fields of Law, history, Economics, Politics Hidalgo, and the Nuremberg War Crimes trials. by the Ames Foundation, the Cornell legal Information Institute  
    http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/legalhis.html
    
    Extractions: UT Law UT UT Libraries Home ... Our Publications The following is a selective guide to legal history resources on the World Wide Web, with special emphasis on archives and rare book collections that are relevant to legal history. Please send any corrections and additions to Mike Widener (Archivist/Rare Books Librarian, Tarlton Law Library). The Ames Foundation , based at Harvard Law School, supports research into English legal history through publications (notably the Year Books of Richard II) and grants. The site includes a catalogue of their publications. The Bentham Project is editing and publishing the complete works of the great English legal reformer Jeremy Bentham. The site includes bibliographies of Bentham's works and a brief biography. The Federal Judicial Center makes several publications of the Federal Judicial History Office available via its web site (in Adobe PDF format), including Creating the Federal Judicial System A Directory of Oral History Interviews Related to the Federal Courts A Guide to the Preservation of Federal Judges' Papers , and its newsletter The Court Historian H-LAW is the H-NET (Humanities Online) discussion list devoted to legal and constitutional history. Its web site includes logs of H-LAW discussions, book reviews, a directory of legal historians, and links to the American Society for Legal History, the index to

38. Law-Related Resources At The Harry Ransom Center
    verbatim legal reports of celebrated trials, commercially published historian of criminal law related to social history. 19501959 and was a legal advisor for  
    http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/hrc.html
    
    Extractions: at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) Contents: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) is geared toward historical research. The HRC contains both published (e.g., books, sound recordings, music) and unpublished (e.g., manuscripts and archival) collections, as well as photographic and iconographic collections. Each collection may contain a variety of subjects. Librarians from the HRC and the Tarlton Law Library have identified the following collections as being of particular interest to law-related research. Additional information can be found in A Guide to the Collections: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Austin, Tex.: The Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2003). Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) Collection of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889): The collection includes a first edition of Collins's Moonstone , the first detective novel published in English, as well as manuscripts and correspondence relating to Sayers' biography of Collins.

39. ABA Division For Public Education Resources On Trial By Jury
    Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms Great Jury trials of history. twentieth century, for independent juries, and against such modern legal phenomena as  
    http://www.abanet.org/publiced/resources/jury_books.html
    
    Extractions: Books (and article's bibliography) Here are some recent books on juries. You might also want to check out the listing of books on due process generally. Most of these materials are available in bookstores and libraries, not through the ABA. Some listings were also used in the preparation of our article on juries . Some listings include annotations. Aaseng. Nathan. You are the Juror . Minneapolis, Minn.: The Oliver Press, 1997. Book for young adult readers puts them in the role of jurors in eight famous trials. Abramson, Jeffrey. We, The Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy . New York: Basic Books, 1994. An examination of whether the jury systems works, through a look at historical cases that raise such issues as racial bias, jury selection, local justice, and the death penalty. Adler, Stephen J.

40. Historical Facts
    historical Facts. Fingers of fate Petty criminals Alfred and Albert Stratton made British legal history through their trial in May 1905.  
    http://www.legalserviceindia.com/historicalcases/historical_facts.htm
    
    Extractions: Kevin@legalserviceindia.com In Edinburgh’s sensational body-snatching trial of 1828, William Burke was tried and sentenced to death, while his equally notorious accomplice William hare got off scot-free for turning King’s Evidence. The pair of them had murdered to provide bodies for an anatomist to dissect, Burke was hanged before a vast crowd in January 1829 and his corpse was hanged over to the College of Surgeons ironically, for purposes of dissection. Mr. Mervyn Griffith-Jones, prosecutor at the lady Chatterley trial, has been immortalized for asking jury members whether they would ‘wish your wife or servants to read it?’ But he is almost as well remembered for another splendid utterance in a different trial. ‘It is a perfectly ordinary little case of a man charged with indecency with four or five guardsmen,’ he said. Times have changed since lady Chatterley trial. In May 1984, a 26-year-old Sussex plumber filed a complaint against a local sex-shop, claiming that five pornographic videos he had hired to view with his ex-wife were not explicit enough. The court at Worthing found in his favour, awarding a

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