First / Limited Edition of the historic MILITARY LAW & PRECEDENTS by William Winthrop - with Important Provenance | A Numbered Limited Edition - Published: Birmingham, Alabama: Gryphon Editions / Legal Classics Library Series, 1988 | Fully bound in fine calf leather with gold gilt decorations and lettering to all covers and raised banded spine; marbled end pages; all page edges gold gilt; silk ribbon.Provenance: From the library /estate of the Honorable Justice Robert D. Glass, the first African American justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He was the lead plaintiff to initiate the landmark civil rights case of McKissick v. Carmichael [Represented by Thurgood Marshall], which resulted in the desegregation of the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1951. The Honorable Robert D. Glass Courthouse in Waterbury was named in his honor on May 19, 2008. See See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Glass.Colonel William Winthrop singularly was the most influential person in developing the military law of the United States. A half century ago, the Supreme Court tendered to Winthrop the title, "The Blackstone of Military Law," meaning simply that his influence outshone all others. He has been cited over 20 times by the highest court and well over a 1,000 times by other federal courts, state courts, and legal texts. In this, he surpasses most other legal scholars.NotesThis comprehensive treatise details early military law, written and unwritten, and explains all of the intricacies of the courts martial process. Notable adjudications by civil courts and in military trials as well as the opinions of law officers are covered. Separate treatment is offered on the law of war and on the civil functions and relations of the military. Most military justice practitioners have heard of Colonel William Winthrop’s Military Law and Precedents. This nineteenth-century treatise is still frequently cited by the military appellate courts,1 and has been called “a masterpiece of painstaking scholarship, brilliant erudition, and lucid prose.” However, the disappearance of the printed law library in many military legal offices has made it less likely than ever that the attorney in the field could actually inform her efforts by reference to Military Law and Precedents.

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