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Book The Law of the Land

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  • Author : Akhil Reed Amar
  • Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
  • Release : 2015-04-14
  • ISBN : 0465065902
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book The Law of the Land written by Akhil Reed Amar and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kennebunkport to Kauai, from the Rio Grande to the Northern Rockies, ours is a vast republic. While we may be united under one Constitution, separate and distinct states remain, each with its own constitution and culture. Geographic idiosyncrasies add more than just local character. Regional understandings of law and justice have shaped and reshaped our nation throughout history. America’s Constitution, our founding and unifying document, looks slightly different in California than it does in Kansas. In The Law of the Land, renowned legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar illustrates how geography, federalism, and regionalism have influenced some of the biggest questions in American constitutional law. Writing about Illinois, “the land of Lincoln,” Amar shows how our sixteenth president’s ideas about secession were influenced by his Midwestern upbringing and outlook. All of today’s Supreme Court justices, Amar notes, learned their law in the Northeast, and New Yorkers of various sorts dominate the judiciary as never before. The curious Bush v. Gore decision, Amar insists, must be assessed with careful attention to Florida law and the Florida Constitution. The second amendment appears in a particularly interesting light, he argues, when viewed from the perspective of Rocky Mountain cowboys and cowgirls. Propelled by Amar’s distinctively smart, lucid, and engaging prose, these essays allow general readers to see the historical roots of, and contemporary solutions to, many important constitutional questions. The Law of the Land illuminates our nation’s history and politics, and shows how America’s various local parts fit together to form a grand federal framework.

Book The Law of the Land

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  • Author : Charles Rembar
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-07-21
  • ISBN : 1504015665
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book The Law of the Land written by Charles Rembar and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman” (The New Yorker). What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America’s legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment? In The Law of the Land, Charles Rembar examines these and many other topics, illustrating the surprisingly entertaining history of US law. Best known for his passionate efforts to protect literature, including Lady Chatterley’s Lover, from censorship laws, Rembar offers an exciting look at the democratic judicial system that will appeal to lawyers and laymen alike. From the dark days of medieval England, when legal disputes were settled by duel, through recent paradigm shifts in the interpretation and application of the legal code, The Law of the Land is a compelling and informative history of the rules and regulations we so often take for granted.

Book Supreme Law of the Land

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  • Author : Gregory H. Fox
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-09-21
  • ISBN : 1108546269
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Supreme Law of the Land written by Gregory H. Fox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do treaties function in the American legal system? This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current status of treaties in American law. Its ten chapters examine major areas of change in treaty law in recent decades, including treaty interpretation, federalism, self-execution, treaty implementing legislation, treaty form, and judicial barriers to treaty enforcement. The book also includes two in-depth case studies: one on the effectiveness of treaties in the regulation of armed conflict and one on the role of a resurgent federalism in complicating US efforts to ratify and implement treaties in private international law. Each chapter asks whether the treaty rules of the 1987 Third Restatement of Foreign Relations Law accurately reflect today's judicial, executive, and legislative practices. This volume is original and provocative, a useful desk companion for judges and practicing lawyers, and an engaging read for the general reader and graduate students.

Book Colonial Lives of Property

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  • Author : Brenna Bhandar
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-03
  • ISBN : 082237157X
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Colonial Lives of Property written by Brenna Bhandar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, Bhandar shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as upon legal narratives that equate civilized life with English concepts of property. In this way, property law legitimates and rationalizes settler colonial practices while it racializes those deemed unfit to own property. The solution to these enduring racial and economic inequities, Bhandar demonstrates, requires developing a new political imaginary of property in which freedom is connected to shared practices of use and community rather than individual possession.

Book Law of the Land

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  • Author : Greg Taylor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-09
  • ISBN : 9781487552138
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Law of the Land written by Greg Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its arrival in the far-flung outpost of 1860s Victoria, British Columbia, right up to twenty-first century Ontario. Examining the peculiarity of how this system of land reform swept through some provinces like wildfire, and yet still remains completely unknown in three provinces, Taylor shows how the different histories of various regions in Canada continue to shape the law in the present day. Presenting a concise and illuminating history of land reform, he also demonstrates the power of lobbying, by examining the influence of both moneylenders and lawyers who were the first to introduce the Torrens system to Canada east of the Rockies. An exact and fluent legal history of regional law reforms, The Law of the Land is a fascinating examination of commonwealth influence, and ongoing regional differences in Canada.

Book Land Use in a Nutshell

Download or read book Land Use in a Nutshell written by Robert R. Wright and published by West Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law and Judicial Duty

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  • Author : Philip HAMBURGER
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674038193
  • Pages : 705 pages

Download or read book Law and Judicial Duty written by Philip HAMBURGER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Hamburger’s Law and Judicial Duty traces the early history of what is today called "judicial review." The book sheds new light on a host of misunderstood problems, including intent, the status of foreign and international law, the cases and controversies requirement, and the authority of judicial precedent. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the proper role of the judiciary.

Book Law of the Land

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  • Author : Elmer Kelton
  • Publisher : Forge Books
  • Release : 2022-05-24
  • ISBN : 1250769019
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Law of the Land written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything inbetween, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the Old West, collected together for the first time, including the never-before-published 'Biscuits for Bandit'."--Back cover.

Book Land Use Law in Florida

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  • Author : W. Thomas Hawkins
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2021-06-28
  • ISBN : 1000394050
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Land Use Law in Florida written by W. Thomas Hawkins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Use Law in Florida presents an in-depth analysis of land use law common to many states across the United States, using Florida cases and statutes as examples. Florida case law is an important course of study for planners, as the state has its own legal framework that governs how people may use land, with regulation that has evolved to include state-directed urban and regional planning. The book addresses issues in a case format, including planning, land development regulation, property rights, real estate development and land use, transportation, and environmental regulation. Each chapter summarizes the rules that a reader should draw from the cases, making it useful as a reference for practicing professionals and as a teaching tool for planning students who do not have experience in reading law. This text is invaluable for attorneys; professional planners; environmental, property rights, and neighborhood activists; and local government employees who need to understand the rules that govern how property owners may use land in Florida and around the country.

Book Textbook on Land Law

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  • Author : Judith-Anne MacKenzie
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2012-07-26
  • ISBN : 0199699275
  • Pages : 650 pages

Download or read book Textbook on Land Law written by Judith-Anne MacKenzie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relied upon by students for over 25 years, this book continues to bring an innovative, practical focus to modern land law, guiding the reader through real-life situations to illustrate rules and highlight problem areas. Clear diagrams, sample documents and further reading help students understand the law in context.

Book The Land is Our History

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  • Author : Miranda C. L. Johnson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0190600063
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Land is Our History written by Miranda C. L. Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the extraordinary story of indigenous activism in the late twentieth century. Taking their claims for justice to law, indigenous peoples transformed debates about national identity and reframed the terms of belonging in settler states. - from the back cover.

Book Understanding Land Law 3 e

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  • Author : Bryn Perrins
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2000-01-11
  • ISBN : 1135343160
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Understanding Land Law 3 e written by Bryn Perrins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this work is to take the main elements of land law and explain each in a systematic way. It shows how different elements of land law combine and interrelate. The book also explains the amount of often confusing specialist language and jargon associated with law.

Book The Law of the Land

Download or read book The Law of the Land written by John Opie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides fascinating insights into how present-day American land legislation has evolved. In doing so the author identifies the many problems that the family farmer has had to face over the past two centuries at the hands of the weather, unstable product prices, and corrupt and venal politicians."--Journal of Agricultural Economics. "A provocative, learned, polemical contribution to the debate on the nature of the farm problem and the means to solve it. Throughout our history, Opie, a historian, convincingly argues, contradictory goals have produced contradictory policies that are the sources of our current problems."--Science. "This important volume offers a reinterpretation of public lands history as it relates to contemporary farm policy. . . . [Opie's] signal contribution is to examine and evaluate the many policy strands of a twentieth-century safety net designed by Congress to sustain the family farm."--Journal of American History "Bright, passionate, and entirely convincing."--Journal of Rural Studies "The Law of the Land has made a significant contribution to agricultural and public policy history by pointing out that American ideals have shaped policies and assigned roles that have often left farmers and farmland vulnerable."--Public Historian "The five years that have passed since this book was first published have been enough to conclude that John Opie can reconstruct the past and predict the future. . . . Many of the problems he foresaw have come to pass and some of the solutions he discussed have been adopted. . . . Anyone interested in the basic environment will find that this volume gives a clear picture of how we got to where we are today in the use and misuse of natural resources. . ."--Environmental History Review. A professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, John Opie is also director of the Center for Technology Studies and founding editor of Environmental History Review. His other publications include Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land (Nebraska 1993).

Book Modern Land Law

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  • Author : Mark P. Thompson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2012-06-28
  • ISBN : 0199641374
  • Pages : 707 pages

Download or read book Modern Land Law written by Mark P. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Modern Land Law' is a core textbook providing students with a clear understanding of the principles of the subject. It analyzes the social context of modern land law and the policy tensions to which it gives rise.

Book A History of the Land Law

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  • Author : Alfred William Brian Simpson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780198255376
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book A History of the Land Law written by Alfred William Brian Simpson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1986 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work (formerly entitled An Introduction to the History of Land Law) has been thoroughly revised with some chapters rewritten to bring it completely up to date. It is available for the first time in paperback.

Book The Development of Land Law in British Guyana

Download or read book The Development of Land Law in British Guyana written by Fenton H. Ramsahoye and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Constitution    Shall Be the Supreme Law of the Land

Download or read book This Constitution Shall Be the Supreme Law of the Land written by David Loy Mauch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the original Constitution formed a system of law with a limited central government, then how did the United States get so offtrack? That's the argument presented by David Loy Mauch, who claims that the government originally established by the United States' founding fathers isn't what we have now. And in his bookThis Constitution...shall be the supreme Law of the Land, Mauch contends that events during and after the Civil War led to the false interpretation of US law still at work today—that the federal government trumps state rights. This provocative educational guide looks back to before the Constitution was signed, giving a history of how America's two-party system came to be, and goes on to propose that the Civil War was actually an illegal war fought against the thirteen southern states inaugurated by Abraham Lincoln, a president with Socialist/Communist sympathies. While historical, Mauch's book also sheds light on events shaping current political discourse, outlining how the Constitution remains distorted and suggesting what we can do as a nation to get it back on track. Rediscover the original law documents that formed our great nation, and reclaim the America our forefathers imagined.