Making legal history : essays in honor of William E. Nelson edited by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and R. B. Bernstein

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, William E. (William Edward), 1940- honouree.

Hulsebosch, Daniel Joseph, editor of compilation.

Bernstein, Richard B., 1956-2023, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States--History.

Law.

Physical Description:

ix, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2013]

Contents:

The landscape of Faith : religious property and confiscation in the early republic / Sarah Barringer Gordon

"It cant be cald stealin" : customary law among civil war soldiers / Thomas C. Mackey

Debating the Fourteenth Amendment : the promise and perils of using congressional sources / Daniel W. Hamilton

Was the warning of strangers unique to colonial New England? / Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger

Ambiguities of free labor revisited : the convict labor question in progressive-era New York / Barry Cushman

The long, broad, and deep civil rights movement : the lessons of a master scholar and teacher / Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Counting as tool of legal history / John Wertheimer

A mania for accumulation : the plea of moral insanity in gilded age will contests / Susannah L. Blumenthal

The political economy of pain / John Fabian Witt

An unexpected antagonist : courts, deregulation, and conservative judicial ideology, 1980-1992 / Reuel Schiller

Bibliography of the scholarship of William E. Nelson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814725269 (hbk. : alk. paper)

0814725260 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

836557853