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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Finkelman, Paul, 1949-, Hershock, Martin J., 1962-, Taylor, Clifford W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2006.
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.