Yazar: William E. Nelson

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New Yo …

Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over whi …

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain’s thirteen North American colonies, which were initially establishe …

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain’s thirteen North American colonies, which were initially establishe …

The colonies that comprised pre-revolutionary America had thirteen legal systems and governments. Given their diversity, how did they evolve into a single nation? In E Pluribus Unum, the eminent lega …

The colonies that comprised pre-revolutionary America had thirteen legal systems and governments. Given their diversity, how did they evolve into a single nation? In E Pluribus Unum, the eminent lega …

Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal histor …

Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal histor …

William E. Nelson’s first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival ba …

On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best. William Marbury, a last-minute judicial appointee of outgoing Federalist president John Adams, demanded redress from the Supreme Court when …

In Pursuit of Right and Justice chronicles the life of the United States District Court’s Judge Edward Weinfeld, from his humble Lower East Side origins to his distinction as one of the nation’s most …

The eminent legal historian William E. Nelson’s magisterial four-volume The Common Law in Colonial America traces how the many legal orders of Britain’s thirteen North American colonies gradually evo …

The eminent legal historian William E. Nelson’s magisterial four-volume The Common Law in Colonial America traces how the many legal orders of Britain’s thirteen North American colonies gradually evo …

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New Yo …

Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over whi …

The period between 1860 and 1920—inclusive of the Gilded Age and much of the Lochner era in legal history—is typically regarded as the heyday of conservative jurisprudence. According to this received …