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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 ...
ChrisProject 07 Sep 2011 - 00:10 IanSullivan
Regulators of North Carolina Project Description and Research Questions Project Description For my project, I intend to study anti creditor movements during the ...
ChrisRiceWikipediaProject 29 Aug 2012 - 20:26 IanSullivan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ChristmanRice/The Charter of Liberties and Privileges This is my wiki article on my userpage; haven't officially submitted it yet ...
ClassBitterIrony 29 Aug 2012 - 22:04 IanSullivan
The Age of Bitter Irony How a grieving society came to the brink of class warfare and fashioned law for industrial semi democracy. Readings Access materials on the ...
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 ...
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) ...
ClassCodification 29 Aug 2012 - 22:00 IanSullivan
Codification and the Common Law The ideology of democratic imperialism that we call Jacksonian was not hospitable to the common law. The resulting tensions shaped ...
ClassCollisionWorlds 29 Aug 2012 - 22:03 IanSullivan
Collision of Worlds How 660,000 people and the Constitution died. Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Somerset v. Stewart , 1 Lofft 1 ...
ClassColonialPolicy 29 Aug 2012 - 21:50 IanSullivan
Colonial Policy and Colonial Constitutionalism How Whitehall created the Empire of the United States. Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned ...
ClassCommercialDevelopment 29 Aug 2012 - 21:49 IanSullivan
Commercial Development Here we consider how the commercial systems of British North America developed, and how the law of mercantile commerce was shaped by North American ...
ClassConstitutionMaking 29 Aug 2012 - 21:51 IanSullivan
Constitution Making Looking Backward How the possibility of an American Revolution was prevented, and the past was securely embodied in a conservative future by the ...
ClassConstitutionalSilences 29 Aug 2012 - 21:55 IanSullivan
What's Not in the Constitution Like all complex and decisive political processes, the Constitutional Convention dealt with some of its most important and divisive ...
ClassEmpire 29 Aug 2012 - 21:50 IanSullivan
Empire The federal nature of the first British Empire, and in particular the understanding of the British North Americans about that federalism, is at the root of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ClassIronHeel 29 Aug 2012 - 22:04 IanSullivan
Bread and Roses, and the Iron Heel The real cataclysm of the release of energy principal: the confrontation of labor and capital during a depression caused by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ClassLincoln 29 Aug 2012 - 22:03 IanSullivan
Lincoln Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Suggested Notes and Materials Projects
ClassMarshall 29 Aug 2012 - 21:56 IanSullivan
Marshall Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Marbury v. Madison (1803) M'Culloch v. Maryland (1819) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Suggested Notes ...
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 ...
ClassPages 07 Sep 2011 - 21:39 IanSullivan
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ClassProgessivism 29 Aug 2012 - 22:04 IanSullivan
Progressivism and Legal Anti Formalism How the intellectual effects of Darwinism and the social effects of the struggle between capital and labor changed the public ...
ClassProjects2009 29 Aug 2012 - 20:24 IanSullivan
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ClassReconstructionEmpire 29 Aug 2012 - 22:03 IanSullivan
Reconstruction and Reimperialization How the real American Revolution failed, and how the Empire did what Karl Marx recommended. Readings Access materials on the ...
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 ...
ClassStatusClassPatriarchy 29 Aug 2012 - 21:49 IanSullivan
Status, Class and Patriarchy Interpreting the colonial societies and their legal orders. Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Edmund Morgan ...
ClassTransitionFederalisms 29 Aug 2012 - 21:51 IanSullivan
Transition of Federalisms: The Revolution that Wasn't Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Selected documents from Sources and Documents Illustrating ...
ClassWarConstitution 29 Aug 2012 - 22:03 IanSullivan
War, the Constitution, and Emancipation The end of the first imperial constitution and the beginning of the actual, abortive American Revolution. Readings Access ...
ColonialPolicyThoughtsQuestions 02 Oct 2011 - 00:43 EbenMoglen
Some of my thoughts/comments on the reading (pre class) please jump in on a discussion/comments/etc. 1. I found it a bit puzzling that in the Proclamation of 1763 ...
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 ...
CriticismsOfTheCommonLaw 18 Nov 2016 - 10:41 KouroshShaffy
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