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Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789.

Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789.

Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, & Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789

(1996). Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, & Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 148-149.

Women before the bar: gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

Women before the bar: gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

Book Review| October 01 1995 Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789, CORNELIA HUGHES DAYTON. MARY BETH NORTON MARY BETH NORTON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Connecticut History Review (1995) 36 (2): 161–163. https://doi.org/10.2307/44369423 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation MARY BETH NORTON; Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Connecticut History Review 1 January 1995; 36 (2): 161–163. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/44369423 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressConnecticut History Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Bruce H. Mann, Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, Studies in Legal History, 1987. Pp. xi, 202. - Toby L. Ditz, Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750–1820, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 213.

Bruce H. Mann, Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, Studies in Legal History, 1987. Pp. xi, 202. - Toby L. Ditz, Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750–1820, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 213. - Volume 9 Issue 1

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Bruce H. Mann. <italic>Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut</italic>. (Studies in Legal History.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, in association with the American Society for Legal History. 1987. Pp. xi, 202. $27.50

Bruce H. Mann. <italic>Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut</italic>. (Studies in Legal History.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, in association with the American Society for Legal History. 1987. Pp. xi, 202. $27.50

THe Perils of Empirical Legal Research

Empirical research is at once the most pressing item on the agenda of legal scholarship and the most terrifying prospect to legal academics. I can remember a seminar run by the American Bar Foundation to acquaint professors with the opportunities for empirical research. One senior participant, much respected in his field of specialization, finally ventured a question: could the American Bar Foundation teach him how to do empirical research or pair him with someone who did? At another leading school, a distinguished visiting professor, brought to the school to begin a program in law and society featuring empirical research, was refused tenure by the president of the university despite a large majority of the faculty approving the appointment. The victorious minority of the faculty had argued, inter alia, that no one had defined the scope or utility of empirical research, at least not to their satisfaction. Law schools teach legal history, the most empirical of all the social sciences, but more often than not the courses revolve about doctrine and imply that all is autonomous, self-generating, and antithetic to empirical research. The Wisconsin led at one time by James Willard Hurst, and now by such lawschool luminaries as Lawrence Friedman and Harry Scheiber, urges empirical research, but the bulk of legal history remains doctrinal. It is a welcome event, then, for defenders of empirical studies in the school that Bruce Mann, a professor of at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, has produced so thoroughly empirical a study as Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut. Mann bases his account of the changing face of debt in early Connecticut on 5,317 civil cases drawn from intervals of the sitting of the county courts of Hartford and New London. At the end of the seventeenth century, the overwhelming majority of these cases involved book debt, a claim based on the plaintiff's own records of the defendant's indebtedness. These claims, brought to court, involved the jury in a quest for individualized

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

Changes in the Criminal Law in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut

Changes in the Criminal Law in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut

NURSING, MINORS, AND THE LAW

Marguerile Mancini, R.N., B.S., J.D., is an attorney at law in Connecticut. She prepared for nursing at Waterbury School of Nursing, Waterbury, Conn., and at Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven. Before entering the University of Connecticut School of Law in West Hartford, she held positions as an industrial, office, hospital, nursing home, and private duty nurse. For two years, Ms. Mancini was an assistant instructor at the Meriden-Wallingford Hospital School of Nursing. She directed the Waterbury Chapter of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut from 1972 to 1974, and presented a paper on “Legal Aspects of a Female Dominated Profession: Nursing,” at the annual convention of the National Organization for Women in 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Computer Power and Legal Reasoning: A Case Study of Judicial Decision Prediction in Zoning Amendment Cases

While social scientists have long advocated the use of statistical methodology in legal analysis, its practical application has not been tested. Statistical models based on social science theories have been used to predict judicial decisions and explain court behavior, but the legal profession has failed to develop statistical models based on traditional legal theories and using data familiar to the lawyer. This article seeks to demonstrate by practical application of statistical methodologies, coupled with traditional legal research methods, that such research can produce important insight into a court's decision making and provide a useful model for predicting the probability of a favorable decision. The zoning amendment decisions of the Connecticut Supreme Court are the data base of this study, which also provides a comprehensive explanation of zoning amendment law in Connecticut as a backdrop against which to evaluate the insights gained by statistical analysis.

Experience in Enforcing Compulsory Clean-Up Regulations on Account of the European Corn Borer

Brief summary of three seasons' experience in enforcement of a compulsory clean-up law in Connecticut for the control of the two-generation European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis Hubn. Methods of procedure, difficulties and results are described.

Probate Law and Practice in Connecticut. Supplement 1915-1928

Probate Law and Practice in Connecticut. Supplement 1915-1928

The Earliest Public High-School Law in Connecticut

It is common property among students of secondary education that one of the very earliest legislative acts dealing with public American secondary education was the so-called old deluder'' law of Massachusetts in 1647. This law prescribed a Latin grammar school for each community when the number of families in the community should reach one hundred.1 It is only less well known that Connecticut copied the Massachusetts law verbatim in 1650.2 For nearly one hundred and fifty years this Latin grammar-school law was the basis for all secondaryschool legislation in the colony of Connecticut. Modifications were made but slowly. Minor changes of wording, spelling, or punctuation were the chief alterations before 1798. Even as late as 1796, when a revision of some of the laws of the colony of Connecticut was made, the chief features concerning curriculum, support and control, teachers and students, of the earlier Latin grammar-school law, were re-enacted.8 The Massachusetts high-school law of 1827 has long been recognized as one of the very early high-school laws of the United States.4 For your consideration I should like to offer the facts known concerning the Connecticut law of 1798 ; and to point out that this law is a still earlier public high-school law than that of Massachusetts in 1827.5 Paragraphs 9, 10, and 11 of the Connecticut law of 1798 read as follows :6