Well, it's fall (or at least the fall semester's begun here). And though the leaves have not yet started to turn -- in fact, the butterfly bush in our front yard is still in bloom -- another sign of fall has arrived. The books from the fall university press catalogs are starting to roll off the presses. There's a lot to anticipate this fall -- Mark Auslander's The Accidental Slaveowner is one.
And Elizabeth Dale's Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939 has just appeared from Cambridge University Press. I had the pleasure of reading this in proof a few weeks back; it's an extraordinary work in terms of the breadth of coverage -- everything you want to know from social history to doctrine is in there.
And as long as I'm thinking on Elizabeth's scholarship, I want to mention her charming Chicago Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, which is a rivetting story of a case of a man who was murdered and then stuffed in a trunk and sent to Pittsburg. It's combines the suspense of true crime with keen insight into how the investigation and prosecution functioned and what that tells us about immigration and law in Chicago around the turn of the twentieth century. It's about to appear as well.
I'm, of course, impressed -- as always -- with Elizabeth's extraordinary productivity. Two books from major university presses in one month?!
Criminal Law is a very well-known area of law, it covers all criminal activities, criminal law describes whole procedure from which criminal law is enforced, in this existing post you have talked about the criminal law of nineteenth century.
Posted by: Criminal Lawyer Toronto | August 31, 2011 at 02:37 AM