"Through both historical essays and a timeline of American constitutional history, Constitutional Law in Context helps students understand constitutional law in light of cases, doctrine, constitutional analysis, federalism, and historical context. It covers both structure of government and individual liberty cases, and it includes a substantial chapter on free speech. In addition, the book provides historical context for the cases. The c ..."
"Through both historical essays and a timeline of American constitutional history, Constitutional Law in Context helps students understand constitutional law in light of cases, doctrine, constitutional analysis, federalism, and historical context. It covers both structure of government and individual liberty cases, and it includes a substantial chapter on free speech. In addition, the book provides historical context for the cases. The c ..."
"The new one-volume edition of Constitutional Law in Context (down from two volumes) continues to provide historical materials, as well as essays and a timeline that together highlight the organic development of constitutional law. These essays, and additional diagrams, help students understand doctrine and cases. This was among the first constitutional law books to take a historical and contextual approach; that focus remains, complemen ..."
1(2nd Edition) Constitutional Law in Context (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook) by Davison M. Douglas, PaulFinkelman, J. Wilson Parker, Michael Kent Curtis Hardcover, 1,104 Pages, Published 2006 by Carolina Academic Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59460-196-5, ISBN: 1-59460-196-8
"Constitutional Law in Context (two volumes) puts major constitutional developments into historical perspective by helping students see how doctrinal developments were shaped by historical context and how historical developments affecting one doctrine often influenced other doctrines as well. Obvious examples include changes in commerce clause doctrine, substantive due process, and law related to race and gender. The chapter on incorpora ..."
"Constitutional Law in Context puts major constitutional developments into historical perspective by helping readers see how doctrinal developments were shaped by historical context and how historical developments affecting one doctrine often influenced other doctrines as well. Obvious examples include changes in commerce clause doctrine, substantive due process, and law related to race and gender. The chapter on incorporation shows h ..."
"Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be shaped by the particulars of time and place.Although each essay is anchored in the local, several important larger themes emerge across the volu ..."
"Drawing on the latest in Lincoln scholarship, The Political Lincoln: An Encyclopediapublished to coincide with the bicentennial of Lincolns birthuniquely addresses the political aspects of the sixteenth presidents actions, influence, and legacy. Detailed entries present sophisticated yet accessible analysis of Lincolns democratic ideas and policies about slavery and emancipation, the emergence of the Republican Party, how Lincoln viewed ..."
"The eight essays collected in The Constitution, Law, and American Life imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the era. Featuring contributions by leading scholars in the field, the volume reflects the freshness and diversity of contemporary legal history.In a wide-ranging essay examining the social, cultura ..."
The Long, Lingering Shadow Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere (Studies in the Legal History of the South Ser.) by Robert J. Cottrol, PaulFinkelman, Timothy Huebner Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4405-8, ISBN: 0-8203-4405-2
"Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, "The Long, Lingering Shadow" looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin Ameri ..."
"This is the first book-length study of a federal district court to analyze the revolutionary changes in its mission, structure, policies, and procedures over the past four decades. As Steven Harmon Wilson chronicles the court's attempts to keep pace with an expanding, diversifying caseload, he situates those efforts within the social, cultural, and political expectations that have prompted the increase in judicial seats from four in 195 ..."
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, legislators in the Nebraska Territory grappled with the responsibility of forming a state government as well as with the larger issues of reconstructing the Union, protecting civil rights, and redefining federal-state relations. In the years that followed, Nebraskans coped with regional and national economic collapses. Nebraska women struggled for full recognition in the legal profession. Meyer v. Nebr ..."
"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 midwestern neighbors, did not enact racial exclusion laws in the post-Civil War era. Michigan has also played a leading role in developing modern rape la ..."
"The United States Supreme Court's relegation of many rights to definition under state constitutional law, combined with the tendency of recent administrations to entrust the states with the task of preserving individual rights, is increasingly making state constitutions the arena where the battles to preserve the rights to life, liberty, property, due process, and equal protection of laws must be fought.Ranging in time from the late 170 ..."