Reprint of first edition (1896). The following pages contain a condensed statement and exposition of the accepted canons and rules for the construction and interpretation of the written laws, whether constitutional or statutory. In accordance with the general plan of the Hornbook Series, these rules have been formulated somewhat after the manner of a code, expressed in brief black-letter paragraph...

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or p...

This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or p...

This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or p...

This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or p...