Reform of the Law [part II]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on reform of the law; for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com 1. BROUGHAM, Henry. Present State of the Law. The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P., in the House of Commons. Henry Colburn, London, 1828. [11476] $ 250.00 2. [CALIFORNIA]. Revised Laws of the State of California. . .Code of Civil Procedure. D.W. Gelwicks, State Printer, Sacramento, 1871. 3/4 sheep, the joints cracked, ex-Bancroft Library, usable. [60705] $ 650.00 The proposed code of civil procedure prepared by the Commissioners and adopted the following year, still the fundamental basis for California's procedural law; with cross-references to California's earlier provisions and to those of other states. 3. [CHAMBERLAYNE, Edward]. Englands Wants: or, Several Proposals Probably beneficial for England, Humbly offered to the Consideration of all Good Patriots in both Houses of Parliament. Wing C1841. Printed for, and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor, in Amen-Corner, London, 1685. The title trimmed (but legible), bound in a new 1/4 calf. [43988 L36L48] $ 450.00 Chamberlayne's seventy-five point program for the reform of the English polity, first appearing shortly after the Restoration and here issued a few years before the Glorious Revolution; with a great many prescient proposals still of value. 4. [CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRIES]. The Covode Investigation. Government Printing Office?, Washington?, 1860. Original cloth, worn but sound. [42454 L36] $ 75.00 The investigations named after John Covode, chair of the House committee examining governmental corruption, including that of the Philadelphia Naval Yard; with three reports appended, including that on slavery under Kansas' Lecompton constitution. 5. [DICKENS, CHARLES AND SAMUEL WARREN]. Gustavus Sharp [pseud.] [i.e. Samuel Warren]. The Confessions of an Attorney. By Gustavus Sharp, Esq., Of the late firm of Flint & Sharp. To Which Are Added Several Papers on English Law and Lawyers, by Charles Dickens. Cohen 5239. Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers, No. 8, Park Place, New York, 1852. Original blue cloth, showing definite wear, some foxing; usable. [66963] $ 150.00 A series of the enjoyable short stories of Samuel Warren, the 19th century Inner Temple barrister whose literary capacities have been compared with Boswell's, Trollope's and (by Holdsworth) Dickens', certain of whose own 'legal' efforts are subjoined. 6. ESTRICH, Susan. Getting Away with Murder, How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998. A very good copy, in the dustjacket. [64717] $ 25.00 7. FIELDING, Henry. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers . . . With Some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil. In Which . . . the Laws that relate to the Provision for the Poor, and to the Punishment of Felons are largely and freely examined [etc.]. Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Katharine-Street [etc.], London, 1751. Modern 1/4 calf gilt, the title page quite embrowned; usable. [54933 L21ENYL33L45L54EL66E] $ 850.00 First edition of Fielding's famed proposals to reform the criminal law, deriving from his experiences as a London magistrate and "the most remarkable of his social tracts", closing with his recommendation that public hangings be abolished. 8. FORER, Lois G. Money and Justice, Who Owns the Courts? A Trial Judge Reflects on the Inequities of a Judicial System Based on Ability to Pay. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1984. A very good copy, in the dustjacket. [66183 L67] $ 45.00 A reformist work of the first rank by the Philadelphia trial court judge who, while in private practice, founded the only law office for juveniles in this country and whom Harold Berman called "the public conscience of the American judiciary". 9. FRANK, Jerome. Courts on Trial, Myth and Reality in American Justice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1949. A good copy, in quite a worn and chipped dustjacket. [66349 L67] $ 65.00 Frank's last work, "[w]itty and didactic, contentious and unsettling", offering a blueprint for major reform of the trial courts, placing him squarely in the camp of the 'fact-skeptics', and securing him a unique niche in American legal realism. 10. FRANK, John P. American Law: The Case for Radical Reform. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1969. [48419] $ 35.00 Lectures given by Mr. Frank upon the Dedication of the Earl Warren Legal Center at the University of California at Berkeley; with a preface by Justice Tom C. 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