{"title":"Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781584772750","title":"Authority in the Modern State","description":"A Solution to the Problem of Authority. Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. x, [19]-398 pp. This work was intended to be a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917). Here Laski argues that sovereignty is best understood as a type of authority, and he supports his case with examples drawn principally from modern French history. After tracing the origins of his subject, Laski considers the significance of Bonald, Lamennais, Royer-Collard and the Syndicalist movement. Laski was a professor at Harvard at the time of publication. He was Justice Holmes' protégé and notes in his preface that some of the ideas in this book were drawn from their discussions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is especially valuable because it warns us not to exaggerate the importance of law... If the individuals in the legislatures and the departments of justice and on the bench do not stand for the best things men stand for, men begin to wonder whether, after all, that government ought to endure. (...) So, in order to make people loyal to the state, you must make the state the kind of institution that they want to be loyal to. Such is the lesson of this very able book.\" --Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Harvard Law Review 32:979-983. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarold J. Laski [1893-1950] was a teacher, political scientist, and leader of the Labour Party. His ideas influenced the work of Felix Frankfurter and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who were two of his closest friends. His work also influenced Jawaharlal Nehru who would go on to become India's first prime minister.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304256745845,"sku":"9781584772750","price":26.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781584772750_6e6abeea-354f-47a2-b93a-a3baa9125ace.jpg?v=1786023436"},{"product_id":"9781616192792","title":"The Illustrious Hugo Grotius of the Law of Warre and Peace","description":"The first English translation of De Jure Belli et Pacis Libre Tres (by Clement Barksdale). In this momentous work Grotius describes situations in which war is a valid tool of law enforcement and outlines principles for the use of force. Though based on Christian natural law, Grotius advances the novel argument that his system would still be valid if it lacked a divine basis. In this regard he points to the future by moving international law in a secular direction.This 1655 edition is the first English translation of De Jure Belli et Pacis Libre Tres (1625). Barksdale's edition \"is perceived to be part of a larger movement in England aimed partly at setting out an ideological alternative to reformation proposals under discussion and to clarifying the relations between civil and ecclesiastical authority in England\" (Butler, xii).      \"Barksdale became a veritable \"Grotian\" factory, the full measure of which has never been appreciated.\" --WILLIAM E. BUTLER, xii     HUGO GROTIUS [1583-1645], a pre-eminent contributor to international legal doctrine, was an influential Dutch jurist, philosopher and theologian. Grotius is also known for Mare Liberum (1609), which argues against territorial sovereignty of the seas.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304638296437,"sku":"9781616192792","price":48.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781616192792_205acf06-bb5b-46f7-a5d2-ef9f60b1f66f.jpg?v=1786023591"},{"product_id":"9781584773504","title":"Francis Lieber","description":"The \"Definitive Biography.\" xiii, 445 pp. Originally published: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, [1947]. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Francis Lieber [1798-1872] was a prominent political philosopher and who helped lay the foundation for the study of political science in the United States. Renowned for his theory of civil liberty, which combined an appreciation for the English concept of decentralized political institutions with the German idea of an overall national purpose, he bridged the intellectual gap between Europe and America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He is best known for drafting guidelines for the humane conduct of the Union army. One of these, General Orders Number 100 (better known as the \"Lieber Code\") was adopted by other nations and formed the basis for such international treaties as the Hague Regulations of 1907. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Prussian scholar and political activist, Lieber was imprisoned twice for his liberal activities. He was one of the first university-trained scholars to immigrate to the United States. A scholar of wide interests beyond law and politics, he published studies on economics, statistics, education and penal reform and produced and edited the Encyclopedia Americana, the first work of its kind published in the United States. He was professor of history and political economy at South Carolina College from 1836 to 1856 and professor of history and political science at Columbia College from 1856 to 1865. From 1860 to the end of his life he was a professor of political science at Columbia Law School, where he was renowned for his contributions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There have been earlier studies of the career of Francis Lieber, but this book will rank as the definitive biography. The author has not only exhausted the archival material and the voluminous correspondence between this extraordinary German emigre scholar and the hundreds of men whom he knew during his sojourn in America from 1827 to 1872, but he used them to produce a very readable account of Lieber's career and political and social philosophy.\" --Carl Wittke, Indiana Law Review 34:732-734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Frank Freidel [1916-1993] was Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University from 1972 to 1981. After his retirement from Harvard he was the Bullitt Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1981-1986. Freidel was a noted biographer of President Franklin D. 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