More news, ideas and commentary on the law and community are available on the firm`s blog under www.LegalNonfiction.com. 49. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship by Linda K. Kerber: “This groundbreaking study redefines women`s history in the United States with an emphasis on civic duties, not rights. Kerber`s analysis examines thirty revealing cases of American legal history, ranging from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be “patriotic,” to today, when men and women, regardless of their marital status, still have different obligations to serve in the armed forces. 95. Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Love v. Virginia by Peter Wallenstein: “In 1958, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, two young lovers from Caroline County, Virginia, got married. Soon they were taken out of their room in the middle of the night and taken to the prison. Their crime? Love was white, Jeter wasn`t, and in Virginia — as in twenty-three other states at the time — interracial marriage was illegal. Their experience reflected the countless couples across America since colonial times. And by questioning the laws against their marriage, the Lovings closed the book on this very long chapter in the nation`s history.
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that changed the law of race and marriage in America forever. As far as the language of contract lawyers is concerned, granting “all rights throughout the universe” to another party is as complete and complete as possible (albeit relatively standard). 98. The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: The Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial by James Q. Whitman: “To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be convicted `beyond a reasonable doubt.` But what is a reasonable doubt? Even experienced legal experts find this basic doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” Originally, it was not a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological rule. 58. Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt: “Denial is Lipstadt`s compelling, piecemeal account of this unique legal battle that led to a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier that paralyzed the movement for years to come.
Lipstadt`s victory was announced on the front pages of major newspapers around the world, such as The Times (UK), which declared that “history has had its time in court and won a landslide victory”. Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator and author of Your Debt-Free JD (affiliate link). He has taught legal writing, written for various publications, and has taken pleasure in being educated financially and scientifically. All the opinions he expresses are probably pure gold, but nevertheless exclusively his own and should not be attributed to any organization with which he is associated. He wouldn`t want to split the loan anyway. It can be carried out in jon_wolf@hotmail.com. Can you recommend something more detailed about the legal structure of the English country and submission to quia emptores? Or a comparison with the French system? I`ve always been curious about what conquerors bring to the France table, innovate and stay away from the Shire system. 88. Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women`s Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas: “Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also revolutionized the lives of American working women. Title VII of the Act made discrimination “on the basis of sex” illegal. But that simple phrase didn`t mean much until ordinary women started using the law to get justice in the workplace — and some took their struggles all the way to the Supreme Court.
“Litigators often forget that judges are people like them, not just legal computers that only deal with data and facts. Judges value a good story as much as the next person. The presentation of the facts of a procedural document is just as important as legal reasoning and should not be neglected.