J. R. Wunder

Law and the Great Plains

Essays on the Legal History of the Heartland
Herausgeber: Wunder, John R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by some of the most respected American legal scholars represents the first investigation of the legal history of the Great Plains. It challenges existing theories about the legal culture of the region by showing the area's distinctiveness. The four-part study offers overviews of law and the region, analyzes landmark cases, discusses the impact of important legal thinkers, and provides a short history and case studies of the work of leading jurists. Designed to whet the appetite of legal scholars and historians who want to consider new ideas and study a little-known field. This provocative work developed from the first conference ever held on law and the Great Plains. The contributors and the participants addressed fundamental questions about race, ethnicity, and civil rights and the legal culture of the region. This study is designed to whet the appetite of legal scholars and historians who want to consider new ideas and study a little-known field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780313296802
• ISBN-10: 0313296804
• Artikelnr.: 20984736

Autorenporträt

JOHN R. WUNDER is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Retained by The People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights (1994), Inferior Courts, Superior Justice: Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889 (Greenwood, 1979), and other books and articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Regional Legal History and the Great Plains Toward a Legal History
of the Great Plains by John R. Wunder The Legal Culture of the Great Plains
by Kermit L. Hall Landmark Cases of the Great Plains German Victims and
American Oppressors: The Background and Legacy of Meyer v. Nebraska by Paul
Finkelman A Kansan Looks at Brown by Michael S. Mayer The Railroad Question
Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway v. Minnesota and
Constitutional Limits on State Regulations by James W. Ely, Jr. Legalists
of the Great Plains Practicing What You Preach Against? Karl Llewellyn,
Legal Realism, and The Cheyenne Way by Scott Landers William Jennings
Bryan's Law Practice by Andrew Koszewski Judiciaries of the Great Plains
Observations on One Hundred Years of Federal Judging in Western Missouri
District Court by Lawrence H. Larsen Tribal Courts: Constitutional Decision
Making and an Opportunity for Transformation by Frank Pommersheim Appendix
Index