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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Legal History"”.
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A Legal History of the Job Corps
… of this dissertation was to construct the legal history of the Job Corps. I focus on five basic questions that guide the study: (1) What were the statutes that created the Job Corps? (2) What was the mission of the Job Corps? (3) How did the Job Corps change over time? (4) What effect did …
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Blackstone's Commentaries: Foothold or Footnote in Louisiana's Antebellum Legal History
… 1840, mandating a required reading course of legal materials for prospective bar applicants. Included in the list of materials was Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Louisiana's legal system has, from its inception, been based on the civil law, a system tracing its …
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The legal history of teacher certification in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… of this research project was to trace the legal and historical development of licensing and certification of public school teachers in the State of Virginia. The main research question investigated: What is the legal history of teacher certification in Virginia? The secondary question …
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Gifts of Rights?: A Legal History of Employment Pension Plans in Canada
… the employment pension system, focusing on the legal status of pension plans within the employment relationship, and on the way lawmakers have defined, shaped and enforced employee pension rights. It traces the legal status of employment pensions from their 19th Century characterization as gifts …
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Towards a legal history of white women in the Transvaal, 1877-1899
… women in the Transvaal between 1877 and 1899. Legal documents are used as primary sources, as they are invaluable for researching women’s history, in that they provide a new perspective. When writing women’s history, it must be grounded in theory, as, especially when it comes to history in …
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Law, Autonomy, and Local Government: A Legal History of Municipal Corporations in Canada West/Ontario, 1850-1880
… was primarily rural. And, significantly, the legal dimension of the subject has been ignored or relied on uncritically. I begin with an examination of the Act and its consolidations to determine whether it was essentially permissive or mandatory, concluding that it can best be described as a …
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A Legal History of Narrowing Ambitions: The Rise of Human Rights in Inter-American Regional Law and Organisation
… and 1969 were part of broader struggles over the legal ordering of regional geopolitical and economic relations. These forgotten struggles involved contested visions of sovereignty, collective security, and economic cooperation, articulated in the language of international law. Second, showing the …
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On Indigenous Tax Consciousness: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, 1938-1987
… Specifically, it chronicles the socio-legal history of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, a Gwich’in tribe from the Alaska interior region. The tribe gained national attention when it attempted to tax a school construction project in the 1980s, triggering a fierce but …
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Later Nineteenth Century Marriage And Divorce Law: The Changing Historiography Of The Law And British Women's History
… examines how the historiography of women's history and legal history with regard to later nineteenth century England have failed to interact in an appreciable way. In failing to do so a gap has gradually emerged between these two related but separate areas of historical inquiry. Women's and …
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Social movements using social media in a mined and censored world: examples in the United States and China
… protest. For the U.S. example, I outline the legal history and interpretation of the 4th Amendment as pertaining to data mining policies enacted now to show the legality of governmental actions regarding data surveillance. The evidence of this is in the Occupy Wall Street example, as I use …
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Vaccination and the Law in Ontario and Nova Scotia (1800 - 1924)
… in Canada, much remains unknown about the legal history of the procedure, including, specifically, the nature and scope of legal mechanisms used to enforce vaccinations and the factors -- legal, social or otherwise -- that account for the effectiveness, success or failure of these …
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Law and the Paranormal: A Critical Perspective on Legal Rationality
… ‘paranormal’ practices throughout English legal history. It shows how early modern witchcraft laws evolved into modern fraud and consumer protection laws regulating mediumship, astrology, and fortune-telling. It argues that this development provides a case-study reflecting the emergence of …
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Bureaucratic mercy: The Home Office and the treatment of capital cases in Victorian England
… fields of historiography, 19th century legal history, institutional history and Victorian cultural history. In the field of legal history it traces the progressive, if piecemeal, centralization and specialization of the criminal justice system as a whole. These were trends which served …
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James V. Allred of Texas: A judicial biography
… the paradoxes of Southwestern political/legal history. Allred was a liberal who followed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, but was simultaneously a Southern demagogue with implicit beliefs in white superiority that characterized most southern politicians of that age of …
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Life, Art, and Industry: A History of the English and Welsh Leather Economy, 1700-1900
… output, improving technologies, the intricate legal history governing the leather industry, among other important facets. Moreover, it culminates in a detailed analysis of the various professions that made up the wider leather economy.
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Chief Justice James Prendergast and the administration of New Zealand colonial justice, 1862-1899
The New Zealand legal system during the nineteenth-century was in a state of rapid change and constant turmoil. After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the British Crown in 1840, British immigration to New Zealand began in earnest. As a British colony, New Zealand gradually …
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An historical analysis of the voidability of contracts in the long eighteenth century : control vs. protection
… have been chosen to be explored, these being illegality, immorality and incapacity. These three topics are linked by the way in which they concern the intervention of the law on private relationships and personal lives, which is the chosen theme throughout this thesis. Ultimately, the thesis …
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Oggetto del contratto tra storia e comparazione giuridica
… analyses the oggetto of the contract between history and comparative law. After introducing the topic, the author presents the methodologies of the study. The first part of the work (in Italian) is dedicated to the oggetto of the contract in the Italian legal system (first chapter) and the …
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On the Inquisitorial Spectrum : The Story of Comparative Criminal Procedure
… stands at the intersection of comparative law, legal history, and criminal procedure. It goes beyond merely comparing procedural similarities and differences between legal systems, by proceeding to identify those phenomena and examining them through the broader interdisciplinary lenses of …
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