Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contents -- Editorial Board -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1-Lawyers and Judges Utilizing History: A Multifaceted Tool for the Profession, 1840-1960 -- Introduction -- Romantic and Mythic History -- Validating Histories at the Time of the Birth of Professional History -- Exemplary History in the Era of Consensus History -- The Dog that did not Bark in the Night -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2-Law and Laundry: White laundresses, Chinese laundrymen, and the origins of Muller v. Oregon -- Muller v. Oregon -- Labor Unions and Steam Laundries -- The Grand Laundry -- Help Wanted: Laundresses in Portland -- Chinese Hand Laundries in Portland -- Muller &amp -- Yick Wo -- Hans Curt Muller -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3-Mercy Redux: A Genealogy of Special Consideration of Indigenous Circumstances at Sentencing in Canada, from Indian Agents to Gladue and Ipeelee -- Part One: Shifting Governance -- The present -- The history -- The transfer -- Part Two: Characterizing Circumstances -- The history -- The present -- The conundrum -- Part Three: Colonial Continuities -- The structure -- The present -- The history -- Colonial continuities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4-Deportation in the Evolution of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties -- Yick Wo, the Rock Springs Massacre, and Rights of Personhood under Alienage Laws -- Deportability and Its Impact on the Rights of Personhood, 1882-1903 -- Immigrant Employment, Union Organizing, and Deportability -- Deportability and Its Widening Impact on Rights and Liberties -- Conclusion -- References -- Court Cases -- Chapter 5-"Negroes Goods and Merchandizes": Legal Language and the Dehumanization of Slaves in British Vice Admiralty Courts, 1700-1763 -- Law Adrift.

The Chattel Principle in an Age of Sail -- Dom. Rex v. 3 Negro Men Slaves and the Language of Admiralty -- Policing the Trade -- African Mariners in Peril on the Sea -- Note on Methodology -- References.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Societyexamines how law understands the past. Topics covered include the use of legal language to dehumanize slaves in the eighteenth century, the use of history by lawyers and judges to justify existing law or make changes to the law during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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