Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Dav

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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis

History > United States - 19th Century

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PublisherCambridge University Press
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139781108401531
PublishedOct 12 2017
Dimension9.24 X 6.41 X 0.86 inches
Weight 1.06 pounds
BISACHistory > United States - 19th Century
Categories(Single Author) Asian American
LanguageEnglish

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This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial because it threatened to undercut the meaning and significance of Union victory. Cynthia Nicoletti describes the interactions of the lawyers who worked on both sides of the Davis case - who saw its potential to disrupt the verdict of the battlefield against secession. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Americans engaged in a wide-ranging debate over the legitimacy and effectiveness of war as a method of legal adjudication. Instead of risking the 'wrong' outcome in the highly volatile Davis case, the Supreme Court took the opportunity to pronounce secession unconstitutional in Texas v. White (1869).

Author Bio

Cynthia Nicoletti is a legal historian and professor of law at Virginia Law. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the William Nelson Cromwell Prize for the best dissertation in legal history, awarded by the American Society for Legal History in 2011. Her book, Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis, won the 2018 Cromwell Book Prize, given by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation each year for excellence in scholarship to an early career scholar working in the field of American legal history.

Education

J.D. Harvard Law School 2003
Ph.D. University of Virginia 2010
M.A. University of Virginia 2004
B.A. University of Virginia 1999

Source: University of Virginia

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