A history of American law [Third edition]
9780743282581, 0743282582
In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law fr
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Pages xx, 620
Year 2005
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Table of contents :
Beginnings: American law in the colonial period --
From the revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century: 1776-1850. Republic of bees --
Outposts of the law: the frontier and the civil law fringe --
Law and the economy: 1776-1850 --
Law of personal status: wives, paupers, and slaves --
American law of property --
Law of commerce and trade --
Crime and punishment: and a footnote on tort --
Bar and its works --
American law to the close of the nineteenth century. Blood and gold: some main themes in the law in the last half of the nineteenth century --
Judges and courts: 1850-1900 --
Procedure and practice: an age of reform --
Land and other property --
Administrative law and regulation of business --
Torts --
Underdogs: 1850-1900 --
Law of corporations --
Commerce, labor, and taxation --
Crime and punishment --
Legal profession: the training and literature of law --
Legal profession: at work --
Twentieth century. Leviathan comes of age --
Growth of the law --
Internal legal culture in the twentieth century: lawyers, judges, and law books --
Regulation, welfare, and the rise of environmental law --
Crime and punishment in the twentieth century --
Family law in the twentieth century.