Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable, laws that sheltered the persons embodied by that propertySH-the slaves themselves. Unintentionally, these judges generated rules applicable to ordinary Americans. Wahl provides a rigorous, compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes.
Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slave...
Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable, laws that sheltered the persons embodied by that propertySH-the slaves themselves. Unintentionally, these judges generated rules applicable to ordinary Americans. Wahl provides a rigorous, compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes.
Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slave...
Volume II of the three-volume series entitled Law and Economics which contains some of the key commentaries on the application of economic analysis to law. In this volume, Wahl (Carleton College) presents 18 articles and four cases that focus on two means by which people formalize their voluntary t
Volume II of the three-volume series entitled Law and Economics which contains some of the key commentaries on the application of economic analysis to...
