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The Common Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Introduction by G. Edward White
Paperback April 2009
Transformations in American Legal History
Edited by Daniel W. Hamilton
Edited by Alfred L. Brophy
Hardcover March 2009
Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times
Scott M. Matheson
Presidents have exercised extraordinary power to protect the nation in ways that raised serious constitutional concerns about individual liberties and separation of powers. By looking at examples through different constitutional perspectives, Matheson achieves a deeper understanding of wartime presidential power in general and of President Bush’s assertions of executive power in particular.
Hardcover February 2009
The Transatlantic Constitution
Mary Sarah Bilder
Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution--that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances--shaped the legal development of the colonial world.
Paperback March 2008

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