84 research outputs found
Mosses from an Old Manse: Another Look at Some Historic Property Cases About the Environment
Also appears in Land Use and Environment Law Review 12 (1981): 67-127, and in International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory: Environmental Law, edited by Michael C. Blum, 107-67. New York: New York University Press, 1992
A Failure Or "A Very Great Public Service"? Herbert Hoover, Iowa Banks, and the National Credit Corporation
The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933
Review of: "The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933," by Cal Coquillette
First Flower - The Earliest American Law Reports and The Extraordinary Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775)
The Legal Education of a Patriot: Josiah Quincy Jr.\u27s Law Commonplace (1763)
This article is based on the exciting discovery of a never before printed Law Commonplace, written by the 18th-century lawyer and patriot, Josiah Quincy, Junior. Quincy was co-counsel with Adams in the famous Boston Massacre Trial, a leader of Committee on Correspondence and the Sons of Liberty, and author of the first American law reports. His Law Commonplace provides an exceptional window into the political, racial and gender controversies of the evolving American legal system, and profoundly challenges our conventional views on the origin of American legal education. In certain areas, particularly jury trial, it also has present constitutional significance, as compelling evidence of the state of the law referenced by the Seventh Amendment
- …