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3 unusual facts about legal history


Legal history

The current legal infrastructure in the People's Republic of China was heavily influenced by soviet Socialist law, which essentially inflates administrative law at the expense of private law rights.

In particular, Henry II instituted legal reforms and developed a system of royal courts administered by a small number of judges who lived in Westminster and traveled throughout the kingdom.

Sadakat Kadri, The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson, HarperCollins 2005.


Johann Friedrich von Schulte

Johann Friedrich von Schulte (April 23, 1827 – December 19, 1914) was a German legal historian and professor of canon law who was born in Winterberg, Westphalia.


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Constitutional theory

William Howard Taft (b. 1858 - d. 1930), 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930); 27th President of the United States (1909–1913); Kent Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal History, Yale Law School, Yale University (1913–1921); Dean and Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati Law School; Solicitor General of the United States

Copper Kings

To stir the mix, another Copper King, F. Augustus Heinze, fought the dominance of Amalgamated, providing excitement to an already interesting chapter in Montana's legal history.

Cynthia Neville

Neville's primary research interests are the social, political and cultural history of medieval Scotland, 1000-1500, specifically legal history, Gaelic-Norman interactions and Gaelic lordship.

Edward Lazarus

His first book, Black Hills, White Justice, was about the legal history of the Sioux Nation's land claims against the United States for compensation for the Black Hills — for which his father, Arthur Lazarus, Jr. was a principal attorney — culminating in the United States Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians.

Grays Harbor

The schooner Annie Larsen was seized at Grays Harbour on 25 June 1915 by US customs officials, later leading to what was at the time the most expensive trial in US legal history.

Johannes Platschek

In 1993, he began his legal studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (first state legal examination, 1998; second state legal examination, 2000; doctorate in 2003, summa cum laude); starting in 2004, he worked as a postdoctoral assistant at the University of Munich's Leopold Wenger Institute for Legal History, where he finished his habilitation in 2009 (in Roman Law, Civil Law, Ancient Legal History, and the history of private law in modern times).

Jotwell

Currently the sections—each of which is organized as its own independent blog—are: Administrative Law, Classics, Constitutional Law, Corporate Law, Courts Law, Criminal Law, Cyberlaw, Equality, Family Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property Law, Jurisprudence, Legal History, Legal Profession, Tax Law, Tort Law, Trusts & Estates, and Work Law.

Langum Prizes

2002 (Legal History): Lawrence M. Friedman, American Law in the 20th Century (Yale University Press)

2011 (Legal History): Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman, Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America

Musée du Barreau de Paris

Further items reflect legal history from the 17th century to the present, including manuscripts and exhibits from the trials of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Émile Zola at the Dreyfus affair, Michel Ney, Pierre Cambronne, Villain (assassin of Jean Jaurès), and Alexandre Stavisky.

R. Owen Williams

He was awarded the Raoul Berger Fellowship at Harvard Law School, the Samuel Golieb Fellowship at the New York University School of Law, the Fletcher Jones Fellowship at the Huntington Library, the Legal History Fellowship at Yale Law School, and the Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in history at Yale University.

Richard B. Morris

His dissertation, published by Columbia University Press as Studies in the History of American Law, with Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1930), still defines the research agenda for historians working on early American law, thought at the time it attracted the bitter denunciations of such law-school practitioners of legal history as Julius Goebel, Jr., and Karl Llewellyn, both on the faculty of Columbia Law School.

Stair Society

Recent distinguished figures to have addressed the Society included Alan Watson, Rogers Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, and John H. Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School.

Steven Wilf

He also has held fellowships as John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University, Fellow in Comparative Legal History at the University of Chicago, Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law, and at The Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.

The Chief Sources of English Legal History

The Chief Sources of English Legal History is a book written by Percy Henry Winfield and published, with an introduction by Roscoe Pound, by Harvard University Press in 1925.

Women's Legal History Biography Project

The Stanford Law School Robert Crown Library Staff in collaboration with Professor Barbara Babcock and her students have created a Women's Legal History Biography Project website as a resource for all who are interested in the subject of women lawyers in the United States.