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JohnOMearaProject_DumbLuck
No Suffrage, Little Attention; Nonetheless, Some Prosperity A wealthy half Black war veteran and frontiersman named George Washington Bush altered the course of h...
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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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RailRoadEDIT
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 Steph...
PaulineAbijaoudeProject_LandGrants
Main.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...
BlackSuffrageInWATerritory
No Suffrage, Little Attention; Nonetheless, Some Prosperity A wealthy half Black war veteran and frontiersman named George Washington Bush altered the course of h...
JuliaGrabowskaProject_SolitaryConfinement
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 h...
JoseMirandaProject
Main.JoseMiranda 15 Oct 2017 INTRODUCTION Contemporary legal education primarily teaches students how to "think like a lawyer" and present balanced and formulaic...
YashShahProject_CourtVsCountry
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
Main.ZebulunJohnson 12 Jan 2017 Introduction As far back as Revolution, Americans have been concerned about labor displacement. This concern often manifests as f...
BenMarcu-FightingForIndependenceAtTheFivePoints
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 whe...
KenYangProject
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, t...
GreatDepressionGoldSeizures
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
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
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 co...
ClassLawRiver
Law and the River On the economic and legal geographies of British North America before the war of independence. Readings Access materials on the Course Readings...
CriticismsOfTheCommonLaw
Main.KouroshShaffy 18 Nov 2016
ClassExpansion
Expansion, Transformation, and the Release of Energy The newly independent empire of the United States in its explosive, expansionist phase was organized by law b...
UnificationAndOrTheFreeAndIndependentStates
Unification and/or the "Free and Independent States" The Declaration of Independence (ostensibly a document declaring the separation of a singular people from a s...
HaskinsSReviewOfEarlyMassLaw
Why Does Religious Conviction Endure Exposure? A thought occurs to me regarding the arbitrary, yet pious and prudential, nature and function of early Massachusett...
ClassLaborRelations
Colonial Labor Systems Law The labor discipline systems of British colonial North America, slave and free, set the conditions of social and legal development fo...
ClassIdeologyIllusion
Ideology and Illusion in Colonial Legal Development European settlement in North America, and in particular the English settlements, can only be understood in rel...
ClassSettlement
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 "sett...
DuaneLeProject
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 ...
RobertRantoulJr
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 Am...
JenniferAndersonWikiProject
McCastle v. Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. Please see the Wikipedia article here Main.JenniferAnderson May 11, 2013 McCastle v. Rollins Environmental ...
GloverWrightProject
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 ...
StephanDalal_EatonWIKI
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 Steph...
PublicEducationInLandGrantsSGrenbaum
Main.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 v...
GabrielleWolfWikiProject
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
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
Please see the Wikipedia article here. Commonwealth v. Hunt Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) was a landmark legal decision issued by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicia...
DanielLennardProject
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 introd...
TylerConwayProjectPart2
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 mon...
TylerConwayProject
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
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.wikipedi...
VanessaWheelerProject
Racial Classifications of #8220;Black #8221; and #8220;White #8221; in American Legal and Social History Update: The Wikipedia Article, awaiting review, can be ...
SaarWarnerProject
Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program The Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) is a United States federal statutory program. ...
AndersPauleyWikiProject
Secondary Sources Please see the text of the Wikipedia article, now approved, here. Primary Sources English Intellectual Antecedents to United States Prison Sys...
SteveMesserWikiProject
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
Please see the Wikipedia article here. Main.LizzieGomez 16 Dec 2012 Myra Clark Gaines Myra Clark Gaines (June 30, 1804 (?) January 9, 1885) was an America...
RyanBinghamWikiProject
My wikipedia project may be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Judicial_System_of_the_State_of_Deseret Main.RyanBingham...
ClassHolmes
Holmes Readings Access materials on the Course Readings page. Assigned O. W. Holmes, "The Path of the Law" (1897) From O. W. Holmes, The Common Law (1881) The ...
ClassCivilRights
Marshall: Civil Rights and the New Public Law Readings Access materials on the Course Readings page. Assigned Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman Co., 312 U.S. 496 (194...
ClassLegalRealism
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 neu...
ClassCivilLiberties
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 mater...
ClassNewDeal
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 conquer...
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