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Author: Alfred H. KnightFormat: --
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on DemandISBN-10: 0195122399
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780195122398
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Width:5.8 in.
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Weight:8.8 oz.

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Knight outlines how some of the main contours of American law came to be as he recounts 21 stories beginning with Alfred the Great in the late 19th century and ending with the Rodney King trials in 1993.

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Knight, a practicing attorney and former federal prosecutor, has put together a brilliant compendium of 21 essays that chronicle the growth and development of individual rights and liberties within the Anglo-American legal and constitutional system. Early English proscriptions made unauthorized intrusion into the home a serious crime. Centuries later in America, an Ohio housewife was pushed aside by a squadron of Cleveland's worst (police officers), who were looking for a bomb suspect. Not finding the mad bomber, they instead tried and convicted the woman of possessing pornographic magazines, which the police accidentally discovered during the search. The U.S. Supreme Court saved the day by excluding the tainted evidence from admissibility at trial, in the process making Fourth Amendment protections equally applicable at all levels of American jurisprudence. Knight uses similar case studies to illustrate the role of the judiciary as a unifying and stabilizing force in both early England and modern America. Excellent reading for students of Anglo-American legal history or even someone seeking a better understanding of our legal system. Philip Y. Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Law Lib.
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Knight, a Nashville lawyer and former federal prosecutor, here makes law accessible with lively, textured sketches of landmark cases and principles. He recounts the story of the Magna Carta, which actually focused on obscure issues and mundane problems but contained the seed of modern constitutionalism: the king is subject to the law. He explains how precedent has been used to incrementally transform the common law (of liability, etc.) but has been treated more cavalierly when the Supreme Court addresses constitutional questions. Knight does not preach legal majesty: while he suggests that Court rulings on press freedom have fostered a free society, the "trick will be to maintain that marketplace in times of peril." Similarly, after tracing the history of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful searches and seizures, Knight observes that the Court has been recently moving backward; there is no straight line of constitutional progress. In a few places as when he erroneously suggests that the Rodney King case was the first time the legitimacy of a jury's decision was questioned Knight stumbles, but this is mostly a savvy popularization. (May)
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Title : The Life of the Law: The People and Cases that Have Shaped Our Society, from King Alfred to Rodney King
Author : Alfred H. Knight
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN : 0195122399
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