The history of Michigan law /
"The History of Michigan Law offers the first serious survey of Michigan's rich legal past. Michigan was among the first states to admit African-Americans and women to its law schools and was the first governmental entity to abolish the death penalty. Additionally, the state, unlike its mi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Northwest Ordinance and Michigan's territorial heritage / David G. Chardavoyne
- Blood on the tracks : law, railroad accidents, the economy, and the Michigan frontier / Martin J. Hershock
- An occasionally dry state surrounded by water : temperance and prohibition in antebellum Michigan / John W. Quist
- A beacon of liberty on the Great Lakes : race, slavery, and the law in antebellum Michigan / Roy E. Finkenbine
- Deference to democracy : Thomas Cooley and his barnburning court / Paul D. Carrington
- The four Michigan Constitutions / Frank Ravitch
- Ruin and recovery : conservation and environmental law in Michigan / David Dempsey
- 170 years of a balancing act : a brief history of criminal justice in Michigan / Ronald J. Bretz
- The promise of equality and the limits of law : from the Civil War to World War II / Paul Finkelman
- "Methods of mysticism" and the industrial order : labor law in Michigan, 1868-1940 / Elizabeth Faue
- The Michigan Women's Commission and the struggle against sex discrimination in the 1970s / Liette Gidlow
- Legal education in Michigan / Byron D. Cooper.