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Making Legal History : Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson /

One of the academy's leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bernstein, Richard B., 1956- (Editor ), Hulsebosch, Daniel Joseph (Editor ), Nelson, William E. (William Edward), 1940- (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: making legal historians / R.B. Bernstein and Daniel J. Hulsebosch
  • The landscape of disbelief : disestablishment and property in the early republic / Sarah Barringer Gordon
  • "It cant be cald stealin" : customary law among civil war soldiers / Thomas C. Mackey
  • Debating the Fourteenth Amendment : the promise and perils of using congressional sources / Daniel W. Hamilton
  • Was the warning of strangers unique to colonial New England? / Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger
  • Ambiguities of free labor revisited : the convict labor question in progressive-era New York / Barry Cushman
  • The long, broad, and deep civil rights movement : the lessons of a master scholar and teacher / Tomiko Brown-Nagin
  • Counting as tool of legal history / John Wertheimer
  • A mania for accumulation : the plea of moral insanity in gilded age will contests / Susannah L. Blumenthal
  • The political economy of pain / John Fabian Witt
  • An unexpected antagonist : courts, deregulation, and conservative judicial ideology, 1980-1992 / Reuel Schiller
  • Bibliography of the scholarship of William E. Nelson.