Merchant Adventurers in the Levant: Two British Families of Privateers, Consuls & Traders, 1700-1956

Tom Rees

Business & Money

Talbot Publishing

Without warning, the IRS began, in 2007, to regulate in the realm of nonprofit governance. Ultra Vires offers an explanation as to why, as a matter of law, the IRS does not have the jurisdiction or the authority to regulate the governance affairs of the nation s public charities and other categories of tax-exempt organizations. Ultra Vires reviews the federal law concerning government agencies jurisdiction and authority. The book evaluates IRS policymaking and demonstrates that the IRS s policies are arbitrary and capricious. Ultra Vires concludes that the IRS lacks both the jurisdiction and authority in connection with nonprofit governance. Ultra Vires provides a solid legal underpinning for those who are concerned about the IRS s expansion of its authority into the realm of nonprofit governance, particularly when the IRS has a lengthy record of getting the underlying law wrong and imposing detrimental policies and practices on these organizations. It will be a necessary read for nonprofit directors, trustees, officers and senior executive staff and their lawyers. Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Ultra Vires: Why the IRS Lacks the Jurisdiction and Authority to Regulate Nonprofit Governance

Hopkins, Bruce R.

Education & Reference

Written in a lucid style and well illustrated, Justice Holmes: The Measure of His Thought offers a biographical look at the influences that shaped United States Supreme Court Justice Holmes's judicial outlook, chiefly his open-minded refusal to inject his own views into his legal decisions. This presents a timely comparison to the opinions of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The book proves erroneous the notion of some who claim that Holmes was a cold intellectual, or that his critical legal views represented a change of mind. It demonstrates especially through Holmes's 1919 opinions on speech what would be obvious to a veteran of the courtroom, but not always to a biographer or a professor: that there is a big difference between questions of law before an appellate judge and questions of fact determined by a trial judge or jury. We see how Holmes's childhood and family life specifically his celebrity father and his mother affected his later views. Through an examination of Holmes's Civil War experience we are shown how it shaped his views on natural law and religion. The authors describe Holmes's intellectual influences and include photos of his book collection now at the Library of Congress. Through a discussion of the letters Holmes wrote at his Beverly Farms, MA, home, where he summered when the Court was not in session, we are given a window into his remarkable wit as well as his philosophical views. The book includes rare photographs of Beverly Farms. Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Justice Holmes: The Measure of His Thought

Biographies & Memoirs

Murray, Anthony

Quattlebaum III, Edwin G

Professionals & Academics

xv, 266 pp. xv, 266 pp. Using fiction as a lens to view our present circumstances and our growing concerns about terrorism and civil liberties, each of the essays discusses a work of literary fiction - some classical, some modern - that concerns, directly or indirectly, the historical development of the law. Each essay considers the legal lessons about the fictional event or events at its core, lessons that tell us something worth remembering as we continue to chart law's evolution. These lessons, like those that may be found in all great literature, necessarily extend beyond the historical confines of the characters and plot and background of each story to embrace the modern condition - which, as these great stories suggest, is and always has been the only condition.Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Law and the Modern Condition: Literary and Historical Perspectives

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The First Book to Examine the Trial Itself The kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. touched off one of the most massive manhunts in the history of American crime detection and generated so much publicity at home and abroad that it was touted as the "Crime of the Century." The arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in connection with the kidnapping inevitably led to the "Trial of the Century." Although Hauptmann was almost universally detested at the time of the trial, the tide of public opinion began to change with his conviction. In the decades following Hauptmann's execution, writers have advanced one theory after another seeking to pin the blame upon various members of the Lindbergh household and others. Almost every aspect of the crime and the investigation has been examined and critiqued--with one exception. No one has written a critical analysis of the trial itself. This book seeks to remedy that omission with an investigation and evaluation of the marshalling, presentation, and arguing of the evidence, and a study of the post-conviction litigation. This innovative book includes: <ul>
<li>a thorough analysis of the evidence presented at trial by both the prosecution and defense</li> <li>a comprehensive critique of the performance of the lawyers</li> <li>a discussion of inculpatory scientific evidence available to, but not used by, the prosecution</li> <li>a section listing the major protagonists in the investigation and trial</li> <li>a timeline</li> <li>a modular analysis of the prosecution case</li> <li>a table of cases</li>
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case: A Critical Analysis of the Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann

History

Dedman III, James M

George R Dekle, Sr.

Americas

Hoeflich, Michael H. Editor. Anthology of Nineteenth Century American Legal Poetry. xvii, 281 pp. Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing (an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.), 2017. ISBN-13: 9781616195489. ISBN-10: 1616195487. Hardcover.

Anthology of Nineteenth Century American Legal Poetry

A Magic Mirror into the Life and Education of Oliver Wendell Holmes ―ROBERT HARLAN HENRY, Judge (Fmr.) United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) is one of the most significant figures in American history, both as a judge and as a legal scholar. He was also, without question, one of the most well-read and erudite jurists of his age. Justice Holmes kept his personal notes in a volume that he called the Black Book. For more than 50 years, Holmes filled his Black Book with lists of books he read (including detailed notes on some of them), accounts of his travels, and even observations about flower blooms in Washington, DC, where he served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932, and where he lived (except for summers at his place in Beverly Farms, MA) and continued to make entries in his Black Book ― until his death in 1935. This volume gives insight into his mind and activities for a half-century. Here the original text is provided in facsimile, with a transcription on facing pages. Additional essays by the editors and other scholars highlight the significance of the Black Book and situate it in jurisprudential and historical context.

The Black Book of Justice Holmes: Text Transcript & Commentary

Michael H. Hoeflich

Ross E. Davies

"An overview of the Russian legal system and its historical and theoretical sources"--

Russian Law and Legal Institutions: Third Edition (Studies in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Law)

Butler, William E.

Foreign & International Law

This collection of essays covers the reception of Jeremy Bentham's legal and political thought in a variety of different countries and historical periods. Authors from around the world explore how Bentham's utilitarian program of legal and political reform was disseminated (and sometimes distorted) in the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, Italy, Spain and Australia. Themes or issues shared amongst the essays include the prominent role Étienne Dumont's famous redactions of Bentham's texts played in the early international reception of Bentham's thought, the ways in which Bentham's theories of law and government both succeeded and failed to penetrate political cultures that possessed natural law leanings and, relatedly, the apparent philosophical plasticity of Bentham's thinking (from which both liberal and authoritarian traditions have tried to profit). Together, the essays offer a fresh perspective on the relationship between Bentham's legal and political thought and the global history of utilitarianism.\nSimon Palmer is a research student at the University of Leuphana Lüneburg. His research interests include both contemporary legal philosophy as well as its history, with a particular interest in Bentham's views on language, morality, and law. He has taught at University College London and at the University of Oxford.\nZhai Xiaobo is Associate Professor at the University of Macau. His research interests include legal philosophy, constitutional theory, and Bentham studies. His publications in English have appeared in Law and Philosophy, The Journal of Legal History, and International Journal of Constitutional Law. His coedited volume Bentham's Theory of Law and Public Opinion was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.Stuart Mill.\nxvii, 241 pp.

Bentham Around the World

Legal History

The Partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795) and Napoleon's invasions of Central and Eastern Europe (1806-1813) made the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth an unexpected recipient of legal traditions and substantive law imposed by conquering neighbors. At the same time the science of comparative law was beginning to develop. Influenced by these events and a keen interest in German legal thought and French codification, Polish jurists debated the appropriate balance of imported versus autochthonic law, the proper role of legal education, the development of a legal consciousness and the social role of the jurist. This is the first comprehensive study in English to examine the genesis of comparative legal studies in Poland, and Polish contributions to that field, during this decisive era in European history.\nxiii, 242 pp.

Comparative Law in Warsaw, 1800-1835

Kresin, Oleksiy

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