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Takings and the Nineteenth Century Railroad Eaton v. Boston, Concord Montreal R.R. (B., C. M.R.R.): A New Hampshire Supreme Court Decision from 1872. by S. Dalal ...
PaulineAbijaoudeProject_LandGrants 28 Apr 2018 - 17:20 PaulineAbijaoude
PaulineAbijaoude 25 Apr 2018 The age of Congressional grants of land to railroads matured in the 1850s and rapidly declined in favor by the 1870s. This short period ...
JohnOMearaProject_DumbLuck 12 Jan 2018 - 22:13 EbenMoglen
No Suffrage, Little Attention; Nonetheless, Some Prosperity A wealthy half Black war veteran and frontiersman named George Washington Bush altered the course of history ...
BlackSuffrageInWATerritory 04 Dec 2017 - 21:16 JohnOMeara
No Suffrage, Little Attention; Nonetheless, Some Prosperity A wealthy half Black war veteran and frontiersman named George Washington Bush altered the course of history ...
JuliaGrabowskaProject_SolitaryConfinement 23 Oct 2017 - 19:35 JuliaGrabowska
Origins of solitary confinement in the U.S. Origins Up until the end of the Revolutionary period, sanguinary punishments were used to penalize those who had ...
JoseMirandaProject 22 Oct 2017 - 19:04 EbenMoglen
JoseMiranda 15 Oct 2017 INTRODUCTION Contemporary legal education primarily teaches students how to "think like a lawyer" and present balanced and formulaic arguments ...
YashShahProject_CourtVsCountry 05 Jul 2017 - 17:52 EbenMoglen
Court vs. Country: A Case Study of the First Bank of the United States A case of what? We never find out, barring the elusive mention in your last paragraph, ...
ZebJohnsonProject_MechanizationOfAgriculture 18 Apr 2017 - 22:32 ZebulunJohnson
ZebulunJohnson 12 Jan 2017 Introduction As far back as Revolution, Americans have been concerned about labor displacement. This concern often manifests as fear directed ...
BenMarcu-FightingForIndependenceAtTheFivePoints 26 Jan 2017 - 18:09 BenjaminMarcu
FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE AT THE FIVE POINTS: THE JULY 4TH AND 5TH RIOT OF 1857 By, Ben Marcu Abraham Florentine Jr. was just three blocks from his house when ...
WebChanges 23 Jan 2017 - 21:07 EbenMoglen
WebHome 23 Jan 2017 - 21:05 EbenMoglen
American Legal History its Materials Fall 2016 On Friday, 11 November, we will meet in WJWH 600, for one day only , to accommodate a conference being held in ...
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KenYangProject 23 Jan 2017 - 21:05 EbenMoglen
The Monroe Doctrine and the Law of Nations: a brief History Ken Yang The fascinating aspect of the Monroe Doctrine comes from its duality. As Sexton points out, the ...
GreatDepressionGoldSeizures 27 Dec 2016 - 05:06 KevinHennecken
Great Depression Gold Seizures and the Rule of Law #8220;Hell, there are no rules around here. We #8217;re trying to accomplish something. #8221; #8211; Thomas ...
ChicoSijmProject 28 Nov 2016 - 02:06 ChicoSijm
Arbitration in New Netherland In the 17th century Dutch colony New Netherland, arbitration was used as a form of non court dispute resolution. Unlike contemporary ...
OnOriginalismJeffreyGlassProject 22 Nov 2016 - 19:58 JeffreyGlass
I set out to assault originalism using key moments in the creation of the United States constitution as evidence that originalism leads to absurdity. From that conclusion ...
ClassLawRiver 22 Nov 2016 - 19:46 JeffreyGlass
Law and the River On the economic and legal geographies of British North America before the war of independence. Readings Access materials on the Readings page ...
CriticismsOfTheCommonLaw 18 Nov 2016 - 10:41 KouroshShaffy
KouroshShaffy 18 Nov 2016
ClassExpansion 19 Oct 2016 - 18:23 PatriciaHartmann
Expansion, Transformation, and the Release of Energy The newly independent empire of the United States in its explosive, expansionist phase was organized by law built ...
UnificationAndOrTheFreeAndIndependentStates 10 Oct 2016 - 14:03 EbenMoglen
Unification and/or the "Free and Independent States" The Declaration of Independence (ostensibly a document declaring the separation of a singular people from a sovereign ...
HaskinsSReviewOfEarlyMassLaw 23 Sep 2016 - 12:34 JohnOMeara
Why Does Religious Conviction Endure Exposure? A thought occurs to me regarding the arbitrary, yet pious and prudential, nature and function of early Massachusetts ...
ClassLaborRelations 01 Sep 2016 - 15:25 EbenMoglen
Colonial Labor Systems Law The labor discipline systems of British colonial North America, slave and free, set the conditions of social and legal development for ...
ClassIdeologyIllusion 01 Sep 2016 - 15:25 EbenMoglen
Ideology and Illusion in Colonial Legal Development European settlement in North America, and in particular the English settlements, can only be understood in relation ...
ClassSettlement 01 Sep 2016 - 15:22 EbenMoglen
Settlement In this section of the course, we consider the process by which colonial legal regimes were created in British North America, and how the law was "settled ...
ElviraKrasWikiProject 15 Oct 2014 - 15:02 ElviraKras
DuaneLeProject 09 Jul 2013 - 02:05 DuaneLe
Bureau Law in the Occupied South Inquiry The formation of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was an unusual moment in American constitutional history ...
RobertRantoulJr 13 May 2013 - 04:40 JosephGonzalez
Link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Rantoul, Jr. Robert Rantoul, Jr. Robert Rantoul, Jr. (August 5, 1805 #8211; August 7, 1852) was an American ...
JenniferAndersonWikiProject 11 May 2013 - 08:03 JenniferAnderson
McCastle v. Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. Please see the Wikipedia article here JenniferAnderson May 11, 2013 McCastle v. Rollins Environmental Services ...
GloverWrightProject 22 Apr 2013 - 18:16 GloverWright
The Wikipedia article, which already has undergone some editing/merging, is here. The Origins of Parole in New York Introduction The early history of parole in the ...
StephanDalal_EatonWIKI 01 Apr 2013 - 20:39 StephanDalal
Takings and the Nineteenth Century Railroad Eaton v. Boston, Concord Montreal R.R. (B., C. M.R.R.): A New Hampshire Supreme Court Decision from 1872. by Stephan ...
PublicEducationInLandGrantsSGrenbaum 31 Mar 2013 - 14:51 SimoneGreenbaum
SimoneGreenbaum 31 Mar 2013 Background for Primary Source: The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the Continental Congress on May 20, 1785. The adopted version ...
GabrielleWolfWikiProject 31 Mar 2013 - 04:30 GabrielleWolf
Lynne Stewart's Re Sentencing: #8220;Few Love a Spokesman for the Despised and the Damned #8221; Lynne Stewart, #8220;a left wing radical at heart and a veteran ...
DanielThompsonProject 28 Mar 2013 - 17:23 DanielThompson
Background This article describes legislative efforts to prevent the slaughter of the American Bison as it was hunted to near extinction during the latter half of ...
BillNahillWikiProject 12 Mar 2013 - 20:31 WilliamNahill
Please see the Wikipedia article here. Commonwealth v. Hunt Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) was a landmark legal decision issued by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial ...
DanielLennardProject 10 Mar 2013 - 13:59 DanielLennard
My Wikipedia article can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act for the Better Regulation and Government of Seamen in the Merchants Service Brief introduction ...
TylerConwayProjectPart2 03 Feb 2013 - 22:04 TylerConway
Scholarly Debate on the South Improvement Company #8217;s Role in the Cleveland Massacre The elements of the Grinnell standard for what constitutes an illegal monopoly ...
TylerConwayProject 03 Feb 2013 - 22:01 TylerConway
History of Standard Oil: The Cleveland Massacre The Cleveland Massacre refers to a three month period in 1872 when Standard Oil Company acquired virtually all its ...
CoryNelsonProject 02 Feb 2013 - 21:25 CoryNelson
Hello all, The subject of my work, "Immigration to Iowa," has been incorporated into the "History of Iowa" Wikipedia page. This can be found at http://en.wikipedia ...
VanessaWheelerProject 31 Jan 2013 - 04:12 VanessaW
Racial Classifications of #8220;Black #8221; and #8220;White #8221; in American Legal and Social History Update: The Wikipedia Article, awaiting review, can be found ...
SaarWarnerProject 22 Jan 2013 - 21:54 SaarWarnerLipton
Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program The Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) is a United States federal statutory program. ...
AndersPauleyWikiProject 10 Jan 2013 - 14:46 AndersPauley
Secondary Sources Please see the text of the Wikipedia article, now approved, here. Primary Sources English Intellectual Antecedents to United States Prison Systems ...
SteveMesserWikiProject 21 Dec 2012 - 02:25 SaarWarnerLipton
A History of the United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York This article surveys the history of the U.S. Attorney #8217;s Office for the ...
LizzieGomezWikiProject 16 Dec 2012 - 22:39 LizzieGomez
Please see the Wikipedia article here. LizzieGomez 16 Dec 2012 Myra Clark Gaines Myra Clark Gaines (June 30, 1804 (?) January 9, 1885) was an American socialite ...
RyanBinghamWikiProject 24 Nov 2012 - 19:24 RyanBingham
My wikipedia project may be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Judicial System of the State of Deseret RyanBingham 24 ...
ClassHolmes 18 Sep 2012 - 20:21 IanSullivan
Holmes Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned O. W. Holmes, "The Path of the Law" (1897) From O. W. Holmes, The Common Law (1881) The Western ...
ClassCivilRights 29 Aug 2012 - 22:15 IanSullivan
Marshall: Civil Rights and the New Public Law Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman Co. , 312 U.S. 496 (1941) ...
ClassLegalRealism 29 Aug 2012 - 22:15 IanSullivan
Legal Realism and the Reaction How a hermaneutic turn in the law nearly made the folklore of capitalism obsolete. How a heroic band of conservatives invented neutral ...
ClassCivilLiberties 29 Aug 2012 - 22:13 IanSullivan
Brandeis, Warren: the Rise and Fall of Civil Liberties Where the modern civil libertarian came from, who killed him, and where he's buried. Readings Access materials ...
ClassNewDeal 29 Aug 2012 - 22:06 IanSullivan
A New Deal for the American People How democracy and war saved capitalism and white supremacy from themselves. Where modernity came from. How the Empire conquered ...
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