Law''s Imagined Republic - Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America

Informationen zum Autor Steven Wilf is Joel Barlow Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Law Before the Law (2008), which examines how legal systems address the problem of existing law prior to a law-giving moment, and numerous articles in law and history. Professor Wilf's research focuses on intellectual property law, historical jurisprudence, and legal history. Klappentext Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. Zusammenfassung Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. Drawing on a wealth of material from criminal cases! Steven Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s through the 1790s read law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Criminal law out-of-doors; 2. 'The language of law is a vulgar tongue'; 3. Local justice, transatlantic justice; 4. The problem of punishment in an age of revolution; 5. The statute imagined; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Steven Wilf, Steven Wilf
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521145282
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14528-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Legal History, History of the Americas, Criminal law: procedure and offences