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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958.
Bakken addresses important issues of constitutional history in the context of a seminal period in the history of the American West. Bakken outlines the issues of public policy which the constitution makers faced: issues ranging from resource allocation and taxation to the role of corporations in the community.
?This book is clearly one of the five best works ever written on the legal history of the American West. It represents the definitive study of nineteenth-century legal contract, water, labor, and corporations law in the Rocky Mountain region broadly defined. It is a monograph that belongs in every college library and on the shelf of scholars of the West and of the law.?-The Journal of American History
Combines collective biography with an analysis of the function of the bar in a rapidly changing socioeconomic setting. This work shows how law practice changed with the establishment of large firms and bar associations, and how the state's boom-and-bust economy made debt collection the lawyer's bread and butter.
Traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone and how it has informed much of the lore of the settlement of the West.
This is a thought-provoking exploration of the development of civil law in California from 1850 to 1890. Finally, he demonstrates that the law was less certain and the policy considerations less clear when the law actually functioned on an operational level in society.
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