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A History of American Law: Third Edition by Lawrence M. Friedman, 2005-03-15
Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 by Edwin Brown Firmage, R Collin Mangrum, 2001-05-17
The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History) by John H. Langbein, 2005-09-01
From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America by Richard Mendelson, 2009-06-15
Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History) by Michael Grossberg, 1988-08-01
Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women (Feminist Crosscurrents) by Joan Hoff, 1994-04-01
Papers on the Legal History of Government; Difficulties Fundamental and Artificial by Melville Madison Bigelow, 2009-12-19
Outlines of English Legal History by Albert Thomas Carter, 2010-10-14
Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context, 1880S-1930s (Legal History of North America) by John Shurts, 2000-05
The Legal Framework of English Feudalism: The Maitland Lectures given in 1972 (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History) by S.F.C. Milsom, 2008-10-14
Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations (American Constitutional and Legal History Series) by Telford Taylor, 1974-04
Indian Territory and the United States, 1866-1906: Courts, Government, and the Movement for Oklahoma Statehood (Legal History of North America , Vol 1) by Jeffrey Burton, 1997-09
The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity (Legal History of North America Series, Vol 5) by Debra L. Donahue, 1999-12
Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz (Harvard Law School)

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JLR Web Resources
Search Engines Using Google and other web search engines can be very useful for tracking down information bout Japanese law, in English or in Japanese.
http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/jlr/jlrwebresources.htm
Federal Bureau Of Investigation - Freedom Of Information Privacy Act
Miscellaneous material and correspondence regarding the famous attorney.
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/darrow.htm
Documents For Illinois Justice: The Scandal Of 1969 And The Rise Of John Paul St
Transcriptions of original source documents referenced in the book Illinois Justice The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens by Kenneth A. Manaster.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/manaster/

Extractions: Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens The four documents available here are transcriptions of original source documents referenced in the book Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens by Kenneth A. Manaster, published by the University of Chicago Press. Motion filed by Sherman Skolnick and Harriet Sherman, June 11, 1969 Order of the Supreme Court of Illinois, June 17, 1969 Press release of the Supreme Court of Illinois, June 18, 1969 The Report of the Special Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois, dated July 31, 1969 The University of Chicago Press homepage
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Links to information about the poet and author, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and his son, Associate Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
http://www.transcendentalists.com/holmes.htm
Holmes.html
Biographical information, with information on his military service during the Civil War, excerpts from notable speeches, and an overview of his judicial career.
http://harvardregiment.org/holmes.html

Extractions: Supreme Court Justice Holmes' famous 1884 Memorial Day speech: "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire" Holmes' 1895 Memorial Day speech: "The Soldiers' Faith" Holmes' resting place at Arlington National Cemetery Holmes' favorite poem: "Soldier Buried on the Battlefield" ... Other web pages about Holmes The most famous Harvard man of the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment , Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was a towering figure in American jurisprudence, and one of the Twentieth Century's most influential public figures. Holmes the soldier served with distinction, surviving three wounds and rising to the rank of Captain in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry . He later served as Brevet Colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Sixth Corps General Horatio Wright. Holmes is of course better known as "The Great Dissenter". For thirty years, from 1902 to 1932, Holmes' brilliant intellect held sway over the US Supreme Court, and immeasurably influenced the American legal system. According to no less an authority than The Honorable Richard Posner, present day Chief Federal Judge of the Seventh Circuit, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law". (Take that, Johnnie Cochran!)
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Book review by G. Edward White, covering the highlights of Holmes legal career and his political views.
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/holmes.htm

Extractions: ISBN: 0-19-510128-6 The decisive choices thus were made during what amounts to a single, long lifetime. Oliver Wendell Holmes's long adult life almost matched it. In the field of American jurisprudence, many of the final forms are his. He, perhaps more than anyone else, broke American legal thinking of its natural law habits and enshrined positivism as the only respectable philosophy of law. He quite literally wrote the book on legal pragmatism. He provided the theoretical framework that made it possible for the federal government to create the kind of "soft" command economy typical of twentieth century states. He made it possible for labor unions to carry out class war in the courts rather than in the streets. He turned the First Amendment's freedom of the press clause from a dead letter to a premise of American culture. Also, he was never what he seemed. President Theodore Roosevelt, apparently mislead by the militaristic rhetoric of Holmes's extra-judicial statements into believing Holmes to be a congenial jingo, appointed him to be an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court in 1902. Always hardworking and never a difficult colleague, he was a respected but slightly obscure figure until the 1920s, when he became the darling of Progressives, civil libertarians and the labor movement. In his 80s, he became a national figure for the first time. Then and for decades afterward, he was the "Yankee from Olympus," the "great dissenter," even "..the greatest legal intellect in the history of the English-speaking world," in the opinion of his Supreme Court successor, Benjamin Cardozo. With his brilliant epigrammatic prose style and fearsome moustaches, he joined Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin as an archetypical American.
From Revolution To Reconstruction: Biographies: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, J
Biographical information.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/oliver/oliverxx.htm

Extractions: FRtR Biographies Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quote Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born in Boston on March 8, 1841. He would live until two days short of his 94th birthday. His father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , was a physician, a professor of medicine at Harvard, and an author of novels, verse, and humorous essays. Thus, Holmes grew up in a literary, and prosperous, family. Holmes attended private schools in Boston and then, like his father, Harvard. Young Holmes was not overly impressed with the Harvard of that time, finding the curriculum stultifying (Henry Adams later remarked that "Harvard taught little, and that little ill."). He exercised his literary talents as editor of the Harvard Magazine, and in numerous essays. His graduation was even in some doubt, as he had been publicly admonished by the faculty for "disrespect" towards a professor. Holmes evidently took this as an affront and left to train for the Civil War . His unit was not immediately sent to the front, and Holmes was persuaded to return and receive his degree. After graduating from Harvard, Holmes began his Civil War service. He was wounded in battle three times and also suffered numerous illnesses. Though he was later to glorify wartime service, he declined to renew his term of service when it expired. Holmes apparently, and justifiably, felt that he had done more than his duty, and had survived one battle too many to continue tempting fate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Biographical information from Arlington National Cemetery.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/owholmes.htm

Extractions: Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Born in Massachusetts, he was a Civil War veteran who was wounded three times in battle and who met President Abraham Lincoln on one of the President's visits to the front. He taught law at Harvard, sat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court for twenty years and served for thirty years on the United States Supreme Court, where he helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt select his own successor. An interesting fact is that he had ben appointed to the Court by President Theodore Roosevelt, who was disappointed in many of his decisions. He was known on the Court as "The Great Dissenter" because of the brilliant legal reasoning found in his written opinions. He retired from the Court on January 12, 1932 and was the oldest man to have ever served on the court. He died in Washington, D. C. on March 6, 1935 and was buried in Section 5 of Arlington National Cemetery. His wife, Fannie Bowditch Dixwell Holmes (December 1840-April 1929), whose burial was arranged by Chief Justice William Howard Taft because Holmes was too shy to ask for the honor, is buried with him.
The Common Law By Oliver Wendell Holmes - Project Gutenberg
Plain text version at Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2449

Extractions: Main Page Mobile Version Search Start Page Offline Catalogs My Bookmarks ... Donate to PG Author Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935 Title The Common Law Language English LoC Class K: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence Subject Common law Category Text EBook-No. Release Date Dec 1, 2000 Public domain in the USA. Downloads Readers also downloaded… Read this ebook online... Available Formats Format Size Mirror Sites Generated HTML 762 kB EPUB 286 kB Kindle 426 kB Plucker 404 kB QiOO Mobile 319 kB Plain Text UTF-8 740 kB If you scan this code with your mobile phone and appropriate software installed, it will open the phone browser to the mobile version of this page. Explain this to hear about new ebooks posted at Project Gutenberg. or to hear what Project Gutenberg says.
The Path Of The Law By Oliver Wendell Holmes - Project Gutenberg
Plain text version at Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2373

Extractions: Main Page Mobile Version Search Start Page Offline Catalogs My Bookmarks ... Donate to PG Author Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935 Title The Path of the Law Language English LoC Class KF: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United States Subject Law Subject Law History Category Text EBook-No. Release Date Feb 26, 2006 Public domain in the USA. Downloads Readers also downloaded… Read this ebook online... Available Formats Format Size Mirror Sites HTML 75 kB mirror sites EPUB 45 kB Kindle 69 kB Plucker 40 kB QiOO Mobile 88 kB Plain Text UTF-8 73 kB More Files… mirror sites If you scan this code with your mobile phone and appropriate software installed, it will open the phone browser to the mobile version of this page. Explain this to hear about new ebooks posted at Project Gutenberg. or to hear what Project Gutenberg says.
Hugo Black And The KKK
Describing Justice Black s controversial background, and his emergence as a proponent of civil rights.
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/ideas/portfolio/vandersee/vandersee.html

Extractions: Hugo Black and the KKK On August 12, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt called Hugo Black into his office, and, after a few minutes of small talk, removed a Supreme Court nomination form from his desk and handed the paper to Black. Thus Hugo Black was nominated as a United States Supreme Court Justice . Black, born in a farmhouse in Alabama, received the appointment after eleven years of Senate Service, in which he proved himself to be an enthusiastic New Dealer . In the New Deal spirit, he tempered justice with mercy to benefit the common man. For example, after a black man, accused of beating a white furniture dealer, explained to Judge Black that his wife was sick and he was being exploited by the dealer. Black responded: "You get back to your sick wife; and if I hear of you paying anymore on the furniture Iím going to put you in jailnot for beating this man, but for wellcontempt of court." As a Senator, Black was a tenacious inquisitor; his investigations pried into steamship and airmail scandals. Roosevelt and the public alike believed that the Senate would confirm the nomination . Despite protests to the nomination from a myriad of different groups, such as dissatisfied Democrats, Republicans, and skeptical blacks intimidated by the southern Senator, it was predicted that not more than seven votes would be cast against Black's nomination. Anti-New Dealers felt the appointment was Roosevelt's attempt to manipulate the Judiciary by appointing a Left- Winger and part of his
Hugo Lafayette Black, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Biography of Justice Black from Arlington National Cemetery.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hlblack.htm

Extractions: Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Born on February 27, 1886, he served as a Captain in the United States Army in World War I in Headquarters, 81st Field Artillery. He also served as United States Senator from Alabama and then as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He suffered from ill-health in his later years and resigned from the court on September 17, 1971 and died eight days later at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland. He was succeeded by Louis Powell, Jr., whom President Richard Nixon appointed. His regulation, white marble, headstone is in Section 30 of Arlington National Cemetery and his wife, Josephine Foster Black (March 16, 1899-December 7, 1931), who served as Y-2, United States Navy in World War I, lies in an adjacent site. Between their two sites is a small white marble bench on which is written, "Here lies a good man." Other Justices buried in Arlington are William O. Douglas
Federal Bureau Of Investigation - Freedom Of Information Privacy Act
Information on Justice Black from the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/black.htm

Extractions: Contact Us Your Local FBI Office Overseas Offices Submit a Crime Tip ... Apply for a Job Hugo Black 156 pages Hugo Black was a U. S. Senator from 1927 until 1937. He was appointed an Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Shortly before his death in 1971, he resigned from the Supreme Court. The FBI records reflect several threats against Justice Black, as well as cordial correspondence between him and FBI Director Hoover and numerous newspaper articles. Part 1a Part 1b FOIA Home Search FOIA website ... White House
Alan Dershowitz, Joseph Mengele And Me
Criticising Dershowitz as a tireless apologist for the pornography industry, and suggesting that his role as a Penthouse consultant affects his First Amendment advocacy.
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/Dershowitz.html

Extractions: The ACLU has come to occupy a political space that many of us revere and even desperately need to believe is being properly defended. However, in plain fact, the ACLU often one-sidedly rushes to defend corporate propaganda without displaying an equal concern for balancing it with noncorporate communication. Indeed, when it comes to "speech" the ACLU is 'ideologically stupid' in accepting the legal fiction that a corporation is just another 'individual' in terms of civil rights and responsibilities. Money talks in its "market place of ideas" and the ACLU echoes very loudly the interests especially of the sex capitalists. Corporations have enormous power in the 1980s and the ACLU too often gives them uncritical license. Ideally, the ACLU's responsibility for expression should feature a concern that all ideas are protected in the "market place." However, an examination of the ACLU's defense of pornographers and the tobacco industry illuminates its actual priorities. Many ideas and voices are silenced without the ACLU speaking out. The reality is that of the five publications accepting the most advertising dollars from the tobacco industry
Alan Dershowitz's Tortuous Torturous Argument
Analysis of the reasoning behind Alan Dershowitz s advocacy of torture.
http://www.spectacle.org/0202/seth.html
Transcript: Alan Dershowitz 06/09/99
Transcribed interview of Dershowitz describing his role on the O.J. Simpson defense team, and his philosophy toward defending criminal suspects widely regarded as guilty.
http://www.time.com/time/community/transcripts/1999/060999dershowitz.html

Extractions: Alan Dershowitz : That's my job. If the public ever believed somebody to be innocent, I probably wouldn't take the case. A good lawyer should want to take the hardest cases, the most unpopular defendants, and the least likely to succeed. Just as a good surgeon would more likely take a difficult operation, rather than a nose job. Statistically, most of my clients are guilty. Statistically, most people charged with crimes in America, are guilty. And thank God for that. Would we want to live in a country where most people charged are innocent? That might be true in Libya, or China, but not here.
Bookreporter.com - LETTERS TO A YOUNG LAWYER By Alan Dershowitz
Book review, commenting on Dershowitz s thesis that it is the obligation of a criminal defense lawyer to seek what is best for his client and not necessarily what serves the interest of justice as he perceives it.
http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0465016316.asp

Extractions: Most people know Alan Dershowitz from his cinematic doppelganger, played by Ron Silver, in the film Reversal of Fortune . They may also know him from his blockbuster book, CHUTZPAH; or, more likely, from his involvement in the O. J. Simpson case, for which he signed on to be the appellate counsel, if one became necessary. They may also know that Dershowitz is a respected professor at Harvard Law School, an opponent of anti-pornography feminism and a patron of nude beaches. Clearly there are a lot of levels to this "sound-bite Dersh." But if his book, LETTERS TO A YOUNG LAWYER, is any indication, Dersh in his own words isn't a whole lot different from Dersh on "Geraldo." Like many successful people, Alan Dershowitz is incredibly single-minded. It's curious that he chooses the Talmud as his touchstone for matters of justice, because unlike the famously equivocating ancient rabbis, he tends to approach legal matters with the surety of a true Christian. His basic texts are the U. S. Constitution and the U. S. legal code, but his faith in them could be no more steadfast if they
Washingtonpost.com Direct Access
Comments from Dershowitz on the impeachment trial of President Clinton, during the pendency of proceedings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/talk/zforum/dershowitz011599.htm

Extractions: Alan M. Dershowitz Friday, January 15, 1999 The House Judiciary Committee heard the testimony of Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz when it was considering the articles of impeachment against President Clinton. Dershowitz, a Clinton defender and the author of a new book called "Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis," was online Jan. 15 washingtonpost.com: With the second day of the impeachment trial underway, Alan Dershowitz joins us from Boston. Prof. Dershowitz, this trial has been called both a legal and political proceeding. What do you see it as. And how do you regard yourself, as a legal or political actor? Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz: None of the above. I think this is a constitutional proceeding that should not be legalistic, nor should it be crassly political. The central point is whether the allegations, if true, constitute treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. To answer that question, we don't need testimony about who touched who where, but rather about the intent of the framers, the nature of our constitutional system and the criteria for removal of the president. This should not be a trial in the legal or political sense. It should be a great constitutional debate about the meaning of our system of checks and balances.
11/08/01 - None Dare Call It Chutzpah: Alan Dershowitz Now Favors Torture
Essay accusing Dershowitz of hypocrisy for his endorsement of the torture of certain criminal suspects.
http://www.vdare.com/francis/torture.htm
Statement Of Alan M. Dershowitz
Expression of support for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1995/082195.htm

Extractions: August 21, 1995 I have known Jonathan Pollard since 1988, when I met him in Marion Prison. In recent weeks, I have spoken to him every day by telephone. Jonathan Pollard's case is a difficult and complex one in which he has suffered a terrible injustice in terms of the length of his sentence. Our government broke its promise to Pollard and sentenced him to a disproportionately long prison term. Despite his repeated and genuine statements of remorse, justice has not been forthcoming. It is understandable that supporters may see different paths towards his eventual release, but to challenge his mental or emotional capacity does not comport with what I have seen and heard. Let us return to our unified effort to undo this terrible injustice and put any clash of personality or questioning of motives behind us. Jonathan Pollard's freedom is too important to all those of us who care about justice. No one can dispute the fact that Jonathan Pollard - who alone is serving the sentence - has the right to chose his route to freedom. Eighty-five members of the Knesset - virtually every member who is not a minister or deputy minister (and, thus, ineligible to sponsor a bill) - have just sponsored a bill to grant Jonathan Pollard's request for Israeli citizenship. That so many Knesset members, who rarely agree about anything, have put aside their differences and supported Jonathan is truly remarkable. We must recognize that Jonathan's decision to seek Israeli citizenship is motivated by a severe loss of faith in the manner in which the American judicial and political system has treated his case - a loss of faith we can all understand. The time has come for people of good will all over the world to unite and demand with a single voice the release of Jonathan Pollard so that he can move to the country he wishes to call home and accept the invitation of the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Mordechai Eliahu, who has agreed to become Jonathan's guarantor and to take Jonathan into his custody.

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