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Title	Author	Format	Date Published	Price	Select Item
Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On	Banner, Stuart	HARDCOVER	2008	$29.95
Law and Judicial Duty	Hamburger, Philip	HARDCOVER	2008	$64.50
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery	Scott, Rebecca J.	PAPERBACK	2008	$24.50
The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11	Abraham, Kenneth S.	HARDCOVER	2008	$57.00
The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire	Bilder, Mary Sarah	PAPERBACK	2008	$30.50
Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska	Banner, Stuart	HARDCOVER	2007	$37.00
Law’s Quandary	Smith, Steven D.	PAPERBACK	2007	$34.00
Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism	Hirschl, Ran	PAPERBACK	2007	$28.50
Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada	Shatzmiller, Maya	HARDCOVER	2007	$28.95
The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs	Ramsey, Michael D.	HARDCOVER	2007	$88.00
The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy	Ackerman, Bruce	PAPERBACK	2007	$27.50
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier	Banner, Stuart	PAPERBACK	2007	$27.50
Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law	Witt, John Fabian	HARDCOVER	2007	$29.95
The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law	Witt, John Fabian	PAPERBACK	2006	$30.50
The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition	Berkowitz, Roger	HARDCOVER	2005	$73.50
Man and Wife in America: A History	Hartog, Hendrik	PAPERBACK	2002	$31.50
The Warren Court and American Politics	Powe, Lucas A.	PAPERBACK	2002	$31.50
The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement	Fried, Barbara H.	PAPERBACK	2001	$38.00
The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston	von Frank, Albert J.	PAPERBACK	1999	$18.00
Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present	Robinson, Daniel N.	PAPERBACK	1998	$32.00
Separating Power: Essays on the Founding Period	Casper, Gerhard	HARDCOVER	1997	$59.50
To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right	Malcolm, Joyce Lee	PAPERBACK	1996	$31.50
The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History	Rosenberg, David	E-DITION	1996	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Human Measure: Social Thought in the Western Legal Tradition	Kelley, Donald R.	E-DITION	1990	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Declamations, Volume I: Controversiae, Books 1-6	Seneca the Elder Winterbottom, Michael	HARDCOVER	1974	$26.00
Declamations, Volume II: Controversiae, Books 7-10. Suasoriae. Fragments	Seneca the Elder Winterbottom, Michael	HARDCOVER	1974	$26.00
On the Laws and Customs of England, Volume 1	Bracton, Henry de	HARDCOVER	1968	$119.00
On the Laws and Customs of England, Volume 2	Bracton, Henry de	HARDCOVER	1968	$146.50
On the Laws and Customs of England, Volume 3	Bracton, Henry de	HARDCOVER	1968	$211.00
On the Laws and Customs of England, Volume 4	Bracton, Henry de	HARDCOVER	1968	$135.50
Holmes–Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874–1932, Two Volumes in One, Second Edition	Holmes, Oliver Wendell Pollack, Frederick Howe, Mark DeWolfe	HARDCOVER	1961	$159.50

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