Browsing by Subject "legal history"

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    • "A World in Miniature:" Slavery and Freedom, Empire and Law, and Atlantic Identities in Freedom-Claiming across the Antebellum South 
      Fletcher, Jessica Sarah (2018-04-11)
      Department: Latin American Studies
      In the antebellum American South, slaves and free blacks from across the Atlantic World went to court to petition for their freedom from illegal enslavement. US legal officials primarily cared whether or not slaves could ...
    • The Idea of "The Criminal Justice System" 
      Mayeux, Sara (American Journal of Criminal Law, 2018)
      The phrase “the criminal justice system” is ubiquitous in discussions of criminal law, policy, and punishment in the United States — so ubiquitous that almost no one thinks to question the phrase. However, this way of ...
    • Joining Forces 
      George, Tracey E.; Guthrie, Chris (Journal of Legal Education, 2002)
      In the absence of empirical evidence and in the face of conflicting intuitions, there is no way to assess the relevance of collaborative work to the development of law and legal scholarship. In this essay we seek to fill ...
    • Troubling Justice: Women and the Criminal Courts in the American South, 1865-1900 
      Hicks, Hannah Katherine; 0000-0002-1004-3771 (2022-07-09)
      Department: History
      This dissertation examines Black and White women’s experiences as complainants and defendants in South Carolina’s county-level criminal courts between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing ...