R W Kostal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6435444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R W Kostal |
| GIVEN NAMES | R W |
| FAMILY NAME | Kostal |
| SIGNATURE | KOSTAL R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The reinvention of Canadian tort law, 1945–95
This article employs the case study method to investigate the social history of Canadian tort law and litigation after 1945. Its focus is Menow v Jordan House, the stem precedent of the Canadian common law of tavern-keeper liability for intoxicated patrons. The article examines the historical genesis, pleading, and adjudication of this litigation, probing why – in Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s – the novel tort claim of an ejected intox…
Laying Down the Law
After WWII, U.S. leaders sought to create liberal rule-of-law regimes in Germany and Japan, but the effort was often unsuccessful. Kostal argues that the manifest failings of America’s own rule-of-law democracy were partially to blame, weakening U.S. credibility and resolve and revealing the country’s ambiguous status as a global moral authority.
The Alchemy of Occupation
In August 1945, Karl Loewenstein began work as senior expert advisor to the Legal Division of American Military Government (AMG) in Berlin. An eminent German-born and educated political scientist and jurisprudent, Loewenstein had come to assist in the “democratization” of his homeland's Nazified law and legal institutions. It was soon obvious, however, that in its crucial first phase the American legal mission in Germany was in disarray. The deve…
Marshalling Martial Law
In 1867, the Jamaica Committee finally mounted private criminal prosecutions for the alleged murder of George Gordon. The first was commenced in London against two of the military officers, Nelson and Brand, who had presided over the court martial of Gordon. The second prosecution was initiated in the Shropshire town of Market Drayton and against the former governor of Jamaica, Edward Eyre. Although both initiatives were frustrated by hostile gra…
A jurisprudence of power
(2000). A jurisprudence of power: Martial law and the Ceylon controversy of 1848–51. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1-34
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 1009–1010, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.1009 Published: 01 September 1996
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 1033–1034, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.1033 Published: 01 September 1996
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 236–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.236 Published: 01 January 1992
Legal Justice, Social Justice
The historiography of work-related accidents in nineteenth-century Ontario is a product of two complementary but as yet unsynthesized lines of inquiry. On the one hand, legal historians have focused on the genesis of judge-made and statutory law respecting the liability of employers for the work-related accidents of their hired labor. Considerable light has been shed on political and ideological as well as formally “legal” factors that shaped jud…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL Centre for Socio–Legal StudiesOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 405, October 1987, Pages 1065–1066, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.405.1065 Published: 01 October 1987
The Opiate Trade of Taiwan and Japan
The Alchemy of Occupation
In August 1945, Karl Loewenstein began work as senior expert advisor to the Legal Division of American Military Government (AMG) in Berlin. An eminent German-born and educated political scientist and jurisprudent, Loewenstein had come to assist in the “democratization” of his homeland's Nazified law and legal institutions. It was soon obvious, however, that in its crucial first phase the American legal mission in Germany was in disarray. The deve…
A jurisprudence of power
(2000). A jurisprudence of power: Martial law and the Ceylon controversy of 1848–51. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1-34
The Opiate Trade of Taiwan and Japan
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL Centre for Socio–Legal StudiesOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 405, October 1987, Pages 1065–1066, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.405.1065 Published: 01 October 1987
Legal Justice, Social Justice
The historiography of work-related accidents in nineteenth-century Ontario is a product of two complementary but as yet unsynthesized lines of inquiry. On the one hand, legal historians have focused on the genesis of judge-made and statutory law respecting the liability of employers for the work-related accidents of their hired labor. Considerable light has been shed on political and ideological as well as formally “legal” factors that shaped jud…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 236–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.236 Published: 01 January 1992
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 1009–1010, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.1009 Published: 01 September 1996
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. KOSTAL R. W. KOSTAL University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 1033–1034, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.1033 Published: 01 September 1996
A jurisprudence of power
(2000). A jurisprudence of power: Martial law and the Ceylon controversy of 1848–51. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1-34
Marshalling Martial Law
In 1867, the Jamaica Committee finally mounted private criminal prosecutions for the alleged murder of George Gordon. The first was commenced in London against two of the military officers, Nelson and Brand, who had presided over the court martial of Gordon. The second prosecution was initiated in the Shropshire town of Market Drayton and against the former governor of Jamaica, Edward Eyre. Although both initiatives were frustrated by hostile gra…
The Alchemy of Occupation
In August 1945, Karl Loewenstein began work as senior expert advisor to the Legal Division of American Military Government (AMG) in Berlin. An eminent German-born and educated political scientist and jurisprudent, Loewenstein had come to assist in the “democratization” of his homeland's Nazified law and legal institutions. It was soon obvious, however, that in its crucial first phase the American legal mission in Germany was in disarray. The deve…
Laying Down the Law
After WWII, U.S. leaders sought to create liberal rule-of-law regimes in Germany and Japan, but the effort was often unsuccessful. Kostal argues that the manifest failings of America’s own rule-of-law democracy were partially to blame, weakening U.S. credibility and resolve and revealing the country’s ambiguous status as a global moral authority.
The reinvention of Canadian tort law, 1945–95
This article employs the case study method to investigate the social history of Canadian tort law and litigation after 1945. Its focus is Menow v Jordan House, the stem precedent of the Canadian common law of tavern-keeper liability for intoxicated patrons. The article examines the historical genesis, pleading, and adjudication of this litigation, probing why – in Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s – the novel tort claim of an ejected intox…
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