Author: Chicago (Ill.). Department of LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Opinions of the Corporation Counsel and Assistants
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Department of LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Catalogue of the Chicago Municipal Library, 1908
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Rule of Justice
Author: Elizabeth DalePublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814208670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Rule of Justice explores a sensational homicide case that took place in Chicago in 1888. Zephyr Davis, a young African American man accused of murdering an Irish American girl who was his coworker, was pursued, captured, tried, and convicted amid public demands for swift justice and the return of social order. Through a close study of the case, Dale explores the tension between popular ideas about justice and the rule of law in industrial America. As Dale observes, mob justice -- despite the presence of a professional police force -- was quite common in late nineteenth-century Chicago, and it was the mob that ultimately captured Davis. Once Davis was apprehended, the public continued to make its will known through newspaper articles and public meetings, called by various civic organizations to discuss or protest the case. Dale demonstrates that public opinion mattered and did, in fact, exert an influence on criminal law and criminal justice. She shows, in this particular instance the public was able to limit the authority of the legal system and the state, with the result that criminal law conformed to popular will. The Rule of Justice is sure to appeal to historians of criminal justice, legal historians, those interested in Chicago history, and those interested in the history of race relations in America.
Clarence Darrow
Author: John A. FarrellPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0767927591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age and the progressive era, Clarence Darrow became America’s greatest defense attorney, successfully championing poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts, against big business, fundamentalist religion, Jim Crow, and the US government. His courtroom style—a mixture of passion, improvisation, charm, and tactical genius—won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. In Farrell’s hands, Darrow is a Byronic figure, a renegade whose commitment to liberty led him to heroic courtroom battles and legal trickery alike.
Oregon Law Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Vol. 1-14 include the proceedings of the Oregon Bar Association, previously issued separately as: Proceedings of the Oregon Bar Association at its ... annual meeting.
The Oregon State Bar Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Oregon State Bar.
Chicago and Cook County
Author: University of Chicago. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America
Author: Charles WarrenResearch in Illinois Law
Author: Bernita Jewell DaviesPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description