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Archipelago of Justice

Law in France’s Early Modern Empire

Laurie M. Wood

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Origins of Order

Project and System in the American Legal Imagination

Paul W. Kahn

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Software Rights

How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

Gerardo Con Diaz

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Congress's Constitution

Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers

Josh Chafetz

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To Save the Country

A Lost Treatise on Martial Law

Francis Lieber and G. Norman Lieber; Edited and with an...

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The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History

John B. Nann and Morris L. Cohen

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Grounds for Dreaming

Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Lori A. Flores

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Free the Beaches

The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline

Andrew W. Kahrl

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Against Dharma

Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics

Wendy Doniger

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Justice and Empathy

Toward a Constitutional Ideal

Robert A. Burt; Edited and Introduced by Frank Iacobucci;...

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The Conquest of Death

Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State

Matthew Lockwood

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The Racial Glass Ceiling

Subordination in American Law and Culture

Roy L. Brooks

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The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi; Translated by...

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Inventing American Exceptionalism

The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877

Amalia D. Kessler

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The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits

The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy

Jessica Lake

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Legal Codes and Talking Trees

Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946

Katrina Jagodinsky

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The Origins of Reasonable Doubt

Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial

James Q. Whitman

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Engines of Truth

Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom

Wendie Ellen Schneider

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The Origins of Corporations

The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages

Germain Sicard; Translated by Matthew Landry; Edited by...

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The Ages of American Law

Grant Gilmore; With a New Foreword and Final Chapter by...

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