Reviews for Yearbook of European Environmental Law

The average rating for Yearbook of European Environmental Law based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-29 00:00:00 Michael Knight Cambridge provides an impressive resource for the lay reader as well as the historian interested in the evolution of the American legal system. Importantly, the three volume work begins, in volume one, with an understanding of the law of conquest and the legalities of colonial regimes operative in the New World. The work then generally traces the common arc of American history - focusing on the legacy of British law, but with important asides to consider domestic law in the colonial era, as well as the legal worlds of American Indians. The first volume also includes colonial criminal law, colonial slave law, the law of commerce through to the years of the early Republic, as well as the consolidation of America's legal regime after the Revolution. Volume II begins with an overview of institutional developments in American legal history from the Revolution through the Civil War. Other important chapters focus specifically on the legal profession, the development of the courts, the law as it relates to Westward expansion and the dispossession of the Native Americans, as well as the legal regimes of slavery and the retort of antislavery. Furthermore this volume includes chapters on the connection between law and social history: tracing law in popular culture, and law related to religious beliefs. Furthermore, as this volume deals with the long nineteenth century, chapters toward the end of the volume address the evolution of intellectual property and commercial law. Finally, as the United States was beginning to flex its imperial muscles toward the 1920s, the volume includes a chapter on the U.S. and the legal framework of international affairs. Volume III begins in the 1920s and traces legal developments to the present day. Significant chapters in this volume address the development of legal education in the 20th century, as well as questions of Federalism and the place of the courts within that system. Chapters address the civil rights movement, and the place of both race and sexuality under American law. Furthermore, chapters on law and the environment, and the competing ideologies of business law, suggest the tensions involved in American law. Together, the works provide a compendium of scholarship on American law that is commendable for its depth and breadth. Perhaps the collection's greatest asset is the fact that *each chapter* comes with its own bibliographic essay, providing a plethora of additional sources for that particular topic. For scholars and laymen, such a resources is hard to come by, and for that reason alone the work should be purchased by any serious student of American legal history.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-25 00:00:00 Jamie Arenas Goode/McKendrick demonstrate their legal nous by making sense of Commercial law against the bewildering and counter-intuitive backdrop of English property law.