Opening statements : law, jurisprudence, and the legacy of Dutch New York /
edited by Albert M. Rosenblatt and Julia C. Rosenblatt.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 243 pages) : illustrations (mostly color), color maps.
- Excelsior editions .
"Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York."
Includes bibliographies and index.
"... A well regulated country where justice and government prevail" / The souls of New Amsterdam's African American children / Matters of "trifling moment" : New Netherland and the New York tradition of arbitration / The Declaration of Independence and the Dutch legacy / Real estate or political sovereignty? : the Dutch, Munsees, and the purchase of Manhattan Island / Crimen laesae maiestatis or abuse of power? : the 1647 trial of Cornelis Melijn and Jochem Pietersz Kuijter / Imagining the Stadt Huys / Prosecution or persecution? : the 1657 Flushing incident / Lutherans and the law in New Netherland : the politics of religion / A flourishing city : Jews in New Amsterdam, 1654 / Governors Island and the origins of religious tolerance / Marital litigations in New Netherland and proprietary New York : similarities and differences in application of Dutch and English law / English law through Dutch eyes : the Leislerian understanding of the English legal system in New York / Martha Dickinson Shattuck -- Joyce D. Goodfriend -- Troy A. McKenzie and Wilson C. Freeman -- Wijnand W. Mijnhardt -- Paul Otto -- Jaap Jacobs -- Diana diZerega Wall and Anne-Marie Cantwell -- Charles Gehring -- Peter R. Christoph -- Leo Hershkowitz -- Joep de Koning -- Michael E. Gherke -- David William Voorhees