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The Definitive Edition of the First Comprehensive Study ofCriminal Procedure Published in Northern Europe with 64 Full-Page IllustrationsReprint of the definitive revised edition. Text in Latin. First published in 1554, this was the first comprehensive study of criminal procedure published in northern Europe. A synthetic work drawn mostly from Roman-Dutch sources, it was based on Philip Wielant's Practycke Crimineele (c.1510) and other earlier treatises. Published in Latin, Dutch and French editions, it was the standard authority throughout Europe for decades. This Antwerp edition from 1601 is illustrated throughout with woodcuts depicting, murder, theft and many other crimes, along with images relating to punishment and justice. Damhouder [1507-1581] was an advisor to the Duke of Burgundy and a prolific author of legal and religious treatises.This edition was published in conjunction with a posthumously compiled appendix, Sententiae Selectae Pertinentes ad Materiam Praxios Rerum Criminalium (1601), which is available as a Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. reprint. xii, 637 pp.

Intended for students, the core of this book is a synthesis of Joseph Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions (1809), Henry John Stephen's Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions (1824), Albert Venn Dicey's Treatise on the Rules for the Selection of the Parties to an Action (1870) and the third book of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1768). Its historical sections are drawn primarily from Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland's The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895), James Bradley Thayer's The Development of Trial by Jury (1896), Melville M. Bigelow's History of Procedure in England (1880) and Oliver Wendell Holmes's, The Common Law (1881). xxvi, 494 pp.

Laski's Theory of the State This influential study develops aspects of Laski's theory of the state, ideas he introduced in his first important publication, Authority in the Modern State (1919). According to Laski, the state is not a supreme entity; it is one association among many that must compete for the people's loyalty and obedience. Harold J. Laski [1893-1950] was a teacher, political scientist, and leader of the Labour Party. His ideas influenced the work of Felix Frankfurter and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who were two of his closest friends. His work also influenced Jawaharlal Nehru who would go on to become India's first prime minister. xi, [iii], 317 pp.

Murray surveys literature written by lawyers for their amusement, and the amusement of their peers. Much of this genre is humorous; it includes such forms as law lyrics, whimsical dissertations, reports in verse and facetious precedents. Other examples, such as proverbs and memorial verses, have a didactic intent. A final group includes elegantly written legal works and examples based on literary conventions. Moving from the textual to the visual, Murray also considers illustrated law books and legal livres de luxe. An appealing survey, it is also a useful starting point for further research into this fascinating genre. xiv, 302, [2] pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Plates.

Martin [1830-1883], the editor of the Statesman's Year-Book, examines the development of marine insurance in what was then the world's leading maritime power. He shows that the system developed under Lloyd's leadership, which drew heavily on commercial, international and admiralty law, enabled Great Britain to become preeminent in maritime affairs and provided the model adopted in other parts of the world. xx, 416 pp.

A thorough descriptive list of 225 printed constitutions, statute compilations, session acts and resolutions passed by properly authorized bodies of the Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Creek (or Muskogee) Nation, Indian Territory, Nez Perce tribe, Omaha Tribe, Osage Nation, Ottawa Tribe, Sac and Fox Nation, Seminole Nation, Seneca Nation, State of Sequoyah, Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe, and the Winnebago Tribe. Each chapter begins with a brief history of the tribe or nation and each entry contains useful biographical, historical and bibliographical notes. The author observes that many of these items have not been "recorded in any connection, and the scant biographical information about the others are widely scattered and often imperfect" (Preface). xxi, 124 pp.

Il'in's classic work is the most impassioned and cogent work by a Russian jurist on the rule of law. The product of nearly four decades of labor, which could not be published in the former Soviet Union, this revised edition places the work in the context of developments since its first English translation in 2013. The text is accompanied by one of Il'in's early and influential articles on law and power, a bibliography devoted to his life and work, and informed introductory essays about his contribution to the rule of law dialogue, the origins and transformations of the concept of legal consciousness and the fascinating history of his treatise on that subject. x, 403 pp.Ivan Aleksandrovich Il'in (¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿) [1883-1954], sometime professor, Moscow Lomonosov State University, is one of the most widely-read legal philosophers of the twentieth century in post-Soviet Russia. William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University College London; and author of numerous works on post-Soviet legal systems, including Russian Law and Legal Institutions (3d ed.; 2021). Philip T. Grier, who has written extensively on Hegel and Il'in and translated Il'in's principal treatise on Hegelianism, is the Emeritus Thomas Bowman Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Paul Robinson is a professor at the University of Ottawa.

Since 1787, only twenty-seven amendments have been proposed by two-thirds majorities in Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states. During this same time, members of Congress have introduced more than eleven and a half thousand proposals, and states have filed close to four hundred additional petitions for constitutional conventions to propose amendments.These four volumes edited and introduced by John R. Vile collect and update compilations of lists of proposed amendments and convention petitions that have been scattered about in a variety of governmental reports. They also reprint classic studies by Herman Ames and Michael Musmanno that analyzed amending proposals introduced during the nation's early years. The work includes texts of basic constitutional documents like the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, and the Confederate Constitution, as well as a comprehensive index of all amendments proposed through 2001. This fourth volume, which covers the years 2001-2021, replaces an earlier supplement that covered the years 2001-2010. Dr. John R. Vile (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is a Professor of Political Science and Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. His other books on the constitutional amending process include the Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues: 1789-2015 (4th ed., 2015), Conventional Wisdom: The Alternate Article V Mechanism for Proposing Amendments to the U.S. Constitution (2016) and Re-Framers: 170 Eccentric, Visionary, and Patriotic Proposals to Rewrite the U.S. Constitution (2014). His recent publications include A Companion to the U.S. Constitution and Its Amendments (7th ed., 2021), Essential Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law (18th ed., 2022), The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding (rev. ed., 2016), America's National Anthem: "The Star-Spangled Banner" in U.S. History, Culture and Law (2021), The Bible in American Law and Politics: A Reference Guide (2020), The Liberty Bell and Its Legacy: An Encyclopedia of an American Icon in U.S. History and Culture (2020), The Declaration of Independence: America's First Founding Document in U.S. History and Culture (2019), More Than a Plea for a Declaration of Rights: The Constitutional and Political Thought of George Mason of Virginia (2019), The American Flag: An Encyclopedia of the Stars and Stripes in U.S. History, Culture and Law (2018) and Governmental Responses to Natural Disasters in the U.S.: A Documentary History (2018). He is the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, which is now online at https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/encyclopedia. xiii, [1], 15-171 pp.

"Probably the Best Modern History of a Particular Branch of English Law""When it appeared in 1883 it was probably the best modern history of a particular branch of English law that had yet appeared in England. It won high praise from Pollock and Maitland. English criminal law, they said, will be fortunate in its historians, 'for it will fall into the hands of Matthew Hale and Fitzjames Stephen.' Though the more intensive study of the earlier history of our law has rendered some parts of it obsolete, it is still the best history of the later stages of the law. And it has another merit which it can never lose. The fact that its author was a practising lawyer and a judge, gives to his account of many parts of the law, and especially to his analysis of famous trials, the reality and vividness which comes of practical experience."-William S. Holdsworth, The Historians of Anglo-American Law 78.Sir James Fitzjames Stephen [1829-1894] was a distinguished and influential lawyer, judge, writer and law reformer. When he was the legal member of the Imperial Legislative Council in India, he drafted twelve acts and eight other enactments. Most of these, such as the Indian Evidence Act, are in force today. His 1878 Digest of Criminal Law, a codification, though never adopted in Great Britain, was the basis of the criminal codes of Canada, New Zealand and several colonies of Australia. Also a philosopher, he was a leading critic of John Stuart Mill.xii, 499 pp.

With a New Introduction by Michael HoeflichJohn H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law University of Kansas School of Law Reprint of the final and best edition. In 1774 Hallifax, Bishop of Gloucester, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and teacher of Sir Henry Maine, offered a course of lectures on "the Roman Civil Law." According to the Dictionary of National Biography, they were "attended by persons of the highest rank and fortune at the university." The lectures were published that year and reissued in 1775, 1779, 1795 and 1818. Geldart became Regius Professor in 1814. His contributions are interesting because they offer a snapshot of civil law studies at Cambridge a half-century later. v (iii-v new introduction), xxxv, 226, [1] pp.

"A Book Which Every Student of the Theory of Sovereignty Must Read" Mattern illuminates his subject through a rich historical survey ranging from Bodin and Hobbes to Laski, Kelsen and Willoughby. "Dr. Mattern's book is a contribution of value to the theory of sovereignty. (...) [He] has written a book which every student of the theory of sovereignty must read: it and Professor Hsiao's are the two most useful expositions of which the reviewer knows.": George E.G. Catlin, Cornell Law Quarterly 14 (1928-29) 409-411. xix, 200 pp.

Canada's Government After the Constitution Act of 1867Reprint of the second and final edition. The British North American Act of 1867, known later as the Constitution Act, organized the Canadian colonies into the Dominion of Canada and defined the framework of its government. First published in 1879, O'Sullivan's was the first study of this new political system. A historically significant work, it is also valuable today for its insights into the early years of the modern Canadian government, which eventually lead Canada to independence in 1982. xix, 344 pp.