Two Cornerstones of English Liberty Stanhope, Charles, Earl [1753-1816]. The Rights of Juries Defended, Together with Authorities of Law in Support of Those Rights. And the Objections to Mr. Fox's Libel Bill Refuted. London: Printed by George Stafford, For P. Elmsly, 1792. Octavo. [iv], 164 pp. Complete with half-title. (8-1/2"..... More
Wilson, Carol. Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865. University Press of Kentucky, [1994]. 177 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $25. * A study exposing the pervasive and systemic illicit trade in human beings across the..... More
Doolan, Brian. Constitutional Law and Constitutional Rights in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, [1984]. xvii, 194 pp. Softcover. Fine. Price tag to rear wrapper. Internally clean. $25. * A legal textbook and reference manual providing a systematic overview of Irish constitutional jurisprudence and the protection of fundamental rights under the..... More
O'Brien, David M. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics. Third Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [1986]. 479 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in very good dust jacket with Brodart cover. Internally clean. $15. * An acclaimed institutional analysis of the..... More
Bloomfield, Maxwell. American Lawyers in a Changing Society, 1776-1876. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. ix, 397 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, near fine in good price clipped dust jacket. Internally clean. $25. * A foundational legal history tracing the social, economic, and institutional evolution of the American legal profession during its..... More
Hyde, Alan. Bodies of Law. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1997]. xii 278 pp. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $15. * A pioneering legal and philosophical exploration of how the human body is constructed, categorized, and regulated within Western jurisprudence. Hyde examines the distinct ways in which medical and legal concepts..... More
Landy, Marc; Milkis, Sidney M. Presidential Greatness. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, [2000]. vii 278 pp. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $10. * A sophisticated analytical critique of American executive power that challenges traditional quantitative rankings of United States presidents. Political scientists Landy and Milkis evaluate executive leadership through a...... More
Derrett, J Duncan M. Introduction to Modern Hindu Law. Bombay: Indian Branch, Oxford University Press, 1963. Large octavo (9" x 6" x 2"; 22.5 cm x 15.5 cm x 5 cm), xciv, 653 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, very good in good price clipped dust jacket. Dust..... More
Bonnet, Theodore. The Regenerators: A Study of the Graft Prosecution of San Francisco. San Francisco [CA]: Pacific Printing Company, 1911. x, 251 pp. Publisher's red cloth, very good. Bottom edge straight cut, top and fore-edge deckled. Internally clean. $25. * An analysis and critique of the famous San Francisco Graft..... More
The Foundational Text of Modern Democratic Theory and the Separation of Powers, in a Contemporary Binding with Scottish Enlightenment Provenance Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de (1689-1755). The Spirit of Laws. Translated from the French. In Two Volumes. The Eleventh Edition. London: Printed for S. Crowder, and T. Payne, 1773..... More
Arnold, Morris S. Unequal Laws Unto A Savage Race: European Legal Traditions in Arkansas, 1686-1836. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1985. First edition. xviii, 243pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket. $25. * A pioneering analysis of the implementation and eventual replacement..... More
Andersen, Cameron Estelle. The Story of the California Judges Association: The First Sixty Years. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney, 1992. xix, 278 pp., illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth, with decorative front cover and gilt stamped spine, near fine. Internally clean and bright. $20. * A comprehensive institutional history detailing the foundational decades of..... More
Hicks, Paul DeForest. Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia's First Chief Justice. Athens: University of Georgia Press, [2002]. First edition. viii, 183 pp. Plates. Illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine. Internally clean. $20. * A biography of the foundational jurist who shaped the early trajectory of Southern antebellum jurisprudence..... More
Larsen, Lawrence H. Federal Justice in Western Missouri: the Judges, the Cases, the Times. Columbia, [MO]: University of Missouri Press, [1994]. xiii, 285 pp. Publisher's green boards with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $20. * A thorough institutional study exploring the political, social, and judicial..... More
Torzsay-Biber, George. Bedo, Alexander Kalnoki. Gsovski, Vladimir, editor. Legal Sources and Bibliography of Hungary. New York: Published for Free Europe Committee by F.A. Praeger, 1956. 157 pp. Publisher's black cloth with stamped spine. Light shelfwear. Internally clean. $20. * A vital regional reference work compiling and evaluating the primary statutory..... More
Umbeck, John R. A Theory of Property Rights With Application to the California Gold Rush. Ames: Iowa State University Press, [1981]. x, 158 pp. Publisher's red cloth, near fine. Internally clean. $20. * An interdisciplinary study applying neoclassical economic theory to the spontaneous emergence of legal order during the California..... More
Langum, David J. Law and Community on the Mexican: California Frontier: Anglo American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821-1846. xii, 308 pp. Publisher's brown boards with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $20. * A pioneering, award-winning study analyzing the fundamental cultural and..... More
Suzuki, Seiko June, compiler. Pulliam, Marjorie, compiler. Greenwood, Robert, editor. California Imprints, 1833-1862: A Bibliography. Los Gatos, California: The Talisman Press, 1961. First edition. xxxvi, 524 pp. Publisher's red cloth, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $25. * The definitive bibliographic reference work chronicling the foundational history of..... More
Hidayatullah, M[ohammed]. My Own Boswell: Memoirs. New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, [1981]. viii, 304 pp. Softcover. Very good showing slight shelf wear and creasing to wrappers. $20. * The vital autobiography of one of twentieth-century India's most eminent jurists, detailing his unprecedented ascent across all three branches of the democratic state. Hidayatullah..... More
Mullen, Kevin J. Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco. Reno: University of Nevada Press, [1989]. First edition. xix, 313 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $25. * A definitive revisionist study of criminal justice..... More
Jacob, Giles (1686-1744). A New Law-Dictionary: Containing, The Interpretation and Definition of Words and Terms used in the Law; and Also the Whole Law, and the Practice Thereof, Under All the Heads and Titles of the Same. Together With Such Informations Relating Thereto, as Explain the History and Antiquity of..... More
Bakken, Gordon Morris. Practicing Law in Frontier California. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1991]. xvii, 192 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine and cover, near fine. Slight scuffing to rear board. Internally clean. $15. * An essential scholarly analysis of the legal profession during California's formative nineteenth-century transition..... More
Stanford, Leland Ghent. San Diego's LL.B. (Legal Lore & the Bar): A History of Law and Justice in San Diego County. [San Diego]: San Diego County Bar Association: Law Library Justice Foundation, 1968. First edition. 310 pp. Publisher's blue boards with gilt stamped spine and front cover, good in good..... More
Saunders, John B. Mozley & Whiteley's Law Dictionary. Ninth Edition. London: Butterworth, 1977. 361 pp. Library rebound in boards. An ex-library copy with standard institutional markings: paper shelf-location labels affixed to the foot of spine, property stamp to rear pastedown and half-title verso, and barcode to rear pastedown. Beyond library..... More
Martin, Elizabeth A. (Editor). A Concise Dictionary of Law. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 433 pp. Library rebound in boards. An ex-library copy with standard institutional markings: paper shelf-location labels affixed to the foot of spine, property stamp and barcode to rear pastedown. Beyond library marks, a clean..... More