The Law Book
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The Law Book

From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law

Michael H. Roffer

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The Law Book

From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law

Michael H. Roffer

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  • Which was the last country to abolish slavery?
  • Which is the only amendment to the U.S. Constitution ever to be repealed?
  • How did King Henry II of England provide a procedural blueprint for criminal law?


These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions addressed in this beautifully illustrated book. Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching, and often-controversial cases, laws, and trials that have profoundly changed our world—for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents as well as today's hot-button issues, The Law Book presents a comprehensive look at the rules by which we live our lives. It covers such diverse topics as the Code of Hammurabi, the Ten Commandments, the Trial of Socrates, the Bill of Rights, women's suffrage, the insanity defense, and more. Roffer takes us around the globe to ancient Rome and medieval England before transporting us forward to contemporary accounts that tackle everything from civil rights, surrogacy, and assisted suicide to the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Google Books, and the fight for marriage equality. Organized chronologically, the entries each consist of a short essay and a stunning full-color image, while the "Notes and Further Reading" section provides resources for more in-depth study. Justice may be blind, but this collection brings the rich history of the law to light.

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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Year
2015
ISBN
9781454901693
Topic
Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
Subtopic
Geschichte & Theorie der Politik

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. c. 2550 BCE: The Oldest Written Will
  8. c. 2100 BCE: The Code of Ur-Nammu
  9. c. 1792 BCE: The Code of Hammurabi
  10. c. 1300 BCE: The Ten Commandments
  11. 621 BCE: The Draconian Code
  12. 594 BCE: The Laws of Solon
  13. c. 480 BCE: The Gortyn Code
  14. 450 BCE: The Twelve Tables
  15. 399 BCE: The Trial of Socrates
  16. c. 180: The Talmud
  17. c. 250: The First Law School
  18. c. 250: The Brehon Laws of Ireland
  19. 529: The Justinian Code
  20. 561: The Irish Copyright War
  21. 624: The Tang Code
  22. 652: The Quran
  23. 1140: Canon Law and the Decretum Gratiani
  24. 1166: The Assize of Clarendon
  25. c. 1200: Lex Mercatoria
  26. 1215: The Magna Carta
  27. 1275: The Statutes of Westminster
  28. c. 1350: The Star Chamber
  29. 1431: The Trial of Joan of Arc
  30. 1481: Littleton’s Tenures
  31. 1492: The Alhambra Decree
  32. 1527: Les Termes de la Ley
  33. 1601: An Act for the Relief of the Poor
  34. 1616: Compulsory Education Laws
  35. 1625: On the Law of War and Peace
  36. 1629: The First Blue Laws
  37. 1648: Peace of Westphalia
  38. 1651: Leviathan
  39. 1670: Bushel’s Case
  40. 1679: The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
  41. 1685: The Black Code of Louis XIV
  42. 1692: The Salem Witchcraft Trials
  43. 1695: Lapse of the Licensing Act
  44. 1710: The Statute of Anne
  45. 1720: The Bubble Act
  46. 1735: The Trial of John Peter Zenger
  47. 1751: The Gin Act of 1751
  48. 1761: The Writs of Assistance Case
  49. 1765: Blackstone’s Commentaries
  50. 1787: The U.S. Constitution
  51. 1789: The Judiciary Act of 1789
  52. 1789: The Declaration of the Rights of Man
  53. 1790: America’s First Copyright Law
  54. 1791: The Bill of Rights
  55. 1792: The Coinage Act of 1792
  56. 1798: The Triple Assessment (Income Tax)
  57. 1803: The Power of Judicial Review
  58. 1804: The Napoleonic Code
  59. 1805: The Superiority of Possession
  60. 1819: The Supremacy of Federal Law
  61. 1821: The Supremacy of Federal Courts
  62. 1824: Congressional Regulation of Commerce
  63. 1824: Administering Native Peoples
  64. 1839: The Amistad
  65. 1842: Recognition of Labor Unions
  66. 1843: The M’Naghten Rule
  67. 1848: The Field Code
  68. 1854: The Measure of Contract Damages
  69. 1857: The Dred Scott Decision
  70. 1861: The Government Printing Office
  71. 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation
  72. 1864: The Geneva Convention
  73. 1865: The Abolition of Slavery
  74. 1866: The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  75. 1868: Impeaching President Andrew Johnson
  76. 1868: The Fourteenth Amendment
  77. 1869: Prohibition of Racial Voter Discrimination
  78. 1870: The Law School Revolution
  79. 1872: Law Reporting and Legal Publishing
  80. 1873: Obscenity and the Comstock Act
  81. 1873: Admission of Women to the Bar
  82. 1876: Legal Aid Societies
  83. 1878: The Berne Convention
  84. 1881: The Insanity Defense
  85. 1882: The Chinese Exclusion Act
  86. 1883: The Civil Rights Cases
  87. 1886: Equal Protection Rights
  88. 1887: The Interstate Commerce Act
  89. 1888: The Brazilian Slave Emancipation Act
  90. 1890: The Right to Privacy
  91. 1890: The Sherman Antitrust Act
  92. 1893: New Zealand Women’s Suffrage
  93. 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but Equal
  94. 1897: Corporate Personhood and Liability
  95. 1900: The German Civil Code
  96. 1901: The Cuban Constitution of 1901
  97. 1908: Women in Factories
  98. 1909: Congressional Power to Tax Income
  99. 1910: The White-Slave Traffic Act
  100. 1910: Workers’ Compensation Law
  101. 1911: Busting the Trusts
  102. 1911: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
  103. 1913: The Federal Reserve Act
  104. 1914: The Exclusionary Rule
  105. 1914: The Clayton Antitrust Act
  106. 1915: The Prohibition of Illegal Narcotics
  107. 1916: The Child Labor Act of 1916
  108. 1916: The Expansion of Consumer Rights
  109. 1918: Prohibition
  110. 1919: Women’s Right to Vote
  111. 1919: Yelling “Fire!” in a Crowded Theater
  112. 1920: New York State Legalizes Boxing
  113. 1921: The Chicago “Black Sox” Trial
  114. 1921: Censorship and the Hays Office
  115. 1921: The Emergency Quota Act
  116. 1925: The Scopes “Monkey” Trial
  117. 1926: The United States Code
  118. 1928: The Danger Zone in Tort Law
  119. 1928: Wiretaps
  120. 1933: Hitler’s Rise to Power
  121. 1933: Wall Street Regulation
  122. 1933: Censorship and Ulysses
  123. 1933: The Repeal of Prohibition
  124. 1934: The Federal Communications Act
  125. 1934: The Securities Exchange Act
  126. 1935: The National Labor Relations Act
  127. 1935: The Nuremberg Laws
  128. 1935: The Social Security Act
  129. 1936: The Federal Register
  130. 1937: FDR and the Court-Packing Plan
  131. 1937: Cameras in the Courts
  132. 1938: Rule 23 and Modern Class Action
  133. 1938: The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
  134. 1938: The Fair Labor Standards Act
  135. 1939: Militias and the Right to Bear Arms
  136. 1940: The Alien Registration Act
  137. 1941: Strict Products Liability
  138. 1941: California’s Anti-Okie Statute
  139. 1942: Internment of Japanese Americans
  140. 1944: The G.I. Bill
  141. 1945: The Nuremberg Trials
  142. 1946: Rent Control
  143. 1946: The Protection of Trademarks
  144. 1947: Colonialism and Postwar Independence
  145. 1948: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  146. 1948: The U.N. Convention on Genocide
  147. 1948: The Hollywood Ten
  148. 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  149. 1948: The Displaced Persons Act
  150. 1951: Rejection of the Alien Registration Act
  151. 1951: The Rosenberg Trial
  152. 1951: The E.U. and the Treaty of Paris
  153. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education
  154. 1954: The Communist Control Act
  155. 1956: The Interstate Highway Act
  156. 1957: The Limits on Obscenity
  157. 1957: The Wolfenden Report and Gay Rights
  158. 1959: The European Court of Human Rights
  159. 1959: No Man’s Land
  160. 1961: States and the Exclusionary Rule
  161. 1961: The Eichmann Trial
  162. 1963: The Trial of Nelson Mandela
  163. 1963: The Right to Counsel in State Court
  164. 1964: Limits on Libel Laws
  165. 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  166. 1965: The Voting Rights Act
  167. 1965: Conscientious Objection
  168. 1965: The Body and the Right of Privacy
  169. 1966: The Freedom of Information Act
  170. 1966: Miranda Warnings
  171. 1967: Interracial Marriage
  172. 1967: The Vietnam-Era Draft Laws
  173. 1969: No-Fault Divorce
  174. 1969: Free Speech and Threats of Violence
  175. 1969: The Fairness Doctrine
  176. 1970: The National Environmental Policy Act
  177. 1970: The Court-Martial of William Calley Jr.
  178. 1970: Public Health and Cigarettes
  179. 1970: The RICO Act
  180. 1970: Baseball’s Reserve Clause
  181. 1970: The Occupational Safety and Health Act
  182. 1970: The Trial of Charles Manson
  183. 1971: Enfranchising Eighteen-Year-Olds
  184. 1971: The Pentagon Papers
  185. 1971: Employment Discrimination
  186. 1971: Court-Ordered School Busing
  187. 1972: Banning the Death Penalty
  188. 1972: The Equal Employment Opportunity Act
  189. 1972: The Equal Rights Amendment
  190. 1972: The Trail of Broken Treaties
  191. 1973: The Endangered Species Act
  192. 1973: The First Ban on Gay Marriage
  193. 1973: A New Obscenity Standard
  194. 1973: Roe v. Wade
  195. 1973: The War Powers Act of 1973
  196. 1974: Presidential Subpoena Compliance
  197. 1975: Attorneys’ Fee Awards
  198. 1975: Restrictions on Involuntary Commitment
  199. 1975: Racism and U.N. Resolution 3379
  200. 1976: The Right to Die
  201. 1976: Health Care and the Duty to Warn
  202. 1976: The Copyright Act of 1976
  203. 1976: The Death Penalty Returns
  204. 1976: Palimony
  205. 1977: Attorney Advertising
  206. 1978: Affirmative Action
  207. 1978: The FCC and Filthy Words
  208. 1978: The Son of Sam Law
  209. 1978: The Entrapment Defense
  210. 1983: The McMartin Molestation Case
  211. 1984: First Mandatory Seat-Belt Law
  212. 1984: Administrative Agency Determinations
  213. 1984: Parody and the First Amendment
  214. 1984: Time-Shifting and Fair Use
  215. 1986: Peremptory Challenges to Jury Selection
  216. 1986: The First Evidentiary Use of DNA
  217. 1987: Pregnancy Discrimination
  218. 1987: Robert Bork’s Supreme Court Nomination
  219. 1988: Surrogate Motherhood
  220. 1988: Women’s Admission to Private Clubs
  221. 1989: The Fatwa against The Satanic Verses
  222. 1989: Celebrity Tax Prosecution
  223. 1989: The First Gay Marriage Laws
  224. 1990: The Americans with Disabilities Act
  225. 1990: The End of Apartheid
  226. 1991: Confirming Clarence Thomas
  227. 1991: The Trial of Manuel Noriega
  228. 1992: Smoking Litigation
  229. 1992: The Rio Conference
  230. 1993: Creation of the European Union
  231. 1994: The Hot Coffee Case
  232. 1995: Stem Cell and Cloning Legislation
  233. 1995: The O.J. Simpson Murder Trial
  234. 1996: Limits on Punitive Damages
  235. 1996: South Africa’s Constitution
  236. 1996: Legalization of Marijuana
  237. 1997: Presidential Immunity
  238. 1997: The Communications Decency Act
  239. 1997: Physician-Assisted Suicide
  240. 1998: The Line-Item Veto
  241. 1998: Indictment of Augusto Pinochet
  242. 1999: Copyright in the Digital Age
  243. 2000: Bush v. Gore
  244. 2000: The Microsoft Monopoly
  245. 2001: Golf Carts on the PGA Tour
  246. 2001: Expanded Copyrights
  247. 2001: The USA PATRIOT Act
  248. 2002: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  249. 2002: The International Criminal Court
  250. 2005: Public Purpose and Eminent Domain
  251. 2008: The Legality of Gun Control
  252. 2010: Google Books and Fair Use
  253. 2010: Wall Street Reform
  254. 2012: The Future of Juvenile Punishment
  255. 2012: The Affordable Care Act
  256. 2015: The Legal Fight for Gay Marriage
  257. Acknowledgments
  258. Notes and Further Reading
  259. Image Credits
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