Studies In The History Of American Law

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781451602661

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A History of American Law, Revised Edition by Lawrence M. Friedman Pdf

A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice. Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.

Author : David M. Rabban
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761918

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Law's History by David M. Rabban Pdf

This is a study of the central role of history in late-nineteenth century American legal thought. In the decades following the Civil War, the founding generation of professional legal scholars in the United States drew from the evolutionary social thought that pervaded Western intellectual life on both sides of the Atlantic. Their historical analysis of law as an inductive science rejected deductive theories and supported moderate legal reform, conclusions that challenge conventional accounts of legal formalism Unprecedented in its coverage and its innovative conclusions about major American legal thinkers from the Civil War to the present, the book combines transatlantic intellectual history, legal history, the history of legal thought, historiography, jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and the history of higher education.

Author : Richard Brandon Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Common law
ISBN : UOM:39015035842635

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Studies in the History of American Law by Richard Brandon Morris Pdf

Author : Richard Brandon Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Common law
ISBN : LCCN:87160256

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Studies in the History of American Law by Richard Brandon Morris Pdf

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780743282581

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A History of American Law: Third Edition by Lawrence M. Friedman Pdf

In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices, and attitudes toward property, government, crime, and justice. Now completely revised and updated, this groundbreaking work incorporates new material regarding slavery, criminal justice, and twentieth-century law. For laymen and students alike, this remains the only comprehensive authoritative history of American law.

Author : Morton J. HORWITZ,Morton J Horwitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674038783

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The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 by Morton J. HORWITZ,Morton J Horwitz Pdf

In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States. Horwitz's subtle and sophisticated explanation of societal change begins with the common law, which was intended to provide justice for all. The great breakpoint came after 1790 when the law was slowly transformed to favor economic growth and development. The courts spurred economic competition instead of circumscribing it. This new instrumental law flourished as the legal profession and the mercantile elite forged a mutually beneficial alliance to gain wealth and power. The evolving law of the early republic interacted with political philosophy, Horwitz shows. The doctrine of laissez-faire, long considered the cloak for competition, is here seen as a shield for the newly rich. By the 1840s the overarching reach of the doctrine prevented further distribution of wealth and protected entrenched classes by disallowing the courts very much power to intervene in economic life. This searching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to the real world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the law as an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in a stunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution and reform.

Author : John B. Nann,Morris L. Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300118537

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The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History by John B. Nann,Morris L. Cohen Pdf

The first guide to legal research intended for the many nonspecialists who need to enter this arcane and often tricky area

Author : Sally E. Hadden,Alfred L. Brophy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781119711650

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A Companion to American Legal History by Sally E. Hadden,Alfred L. Brophy Pdf

A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century. Presents up-to-date research describing the key debates in American legal history Reflects the current state of American legal history research and points readers in the direction of future research Represents an ideal companion for graduate and law students seeking an introduction to the field, the key questions, and future research ideas

Author : Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780963010698

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The Historians of Anglo-American Law by Sir William Searle Holdsworth Pdf

Beginning with Coke and Selden, Holdsworth surveys the work of the great practitioners of Anglo-American legal history. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. 175 pp. "In this reprint of lectures delivered by the learned author in the United States of America, the course of the literature of Anglo-American legal history is portrayed in an illuminating fashion. Pursuing a chronological sequence, the lectures survey the effect of the historical tradition of the common lawyers before legal history began to be written, in which class the learned author puts the work of Coke, passing on to the more historical work of the later authors of whom the first appears to be Selden, while the last include the names of several living writers, both English and American. (...) [N]o one interested in the growth of Anglo-American law can fail to read with pleasure and profit this stimulating treatment of the development of legal history." --Law Quarterly Review 44: 392. WILLIAM S. HOLDSWORTH [1871-1944] was a professor at the University of Cambridge from 1903-1908 and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1922-1944. He is well-known for his monumental A History of English Law (1903-1966) and other works, such as Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1929) and Some Makers of English Law (1938).

Author : James Willard Hurst
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584777168

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The Growth of American Law by James Willard Hurst Pdf

Author : Matthew Crow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107161931

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Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection by Matthew Crow Pdf

Through his discussion of Thomas Jefferson, historian Matthew Crow offers a new perspective on constitutional transformation in early American history.

Author : Lawrence Meir Friedman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300102994

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American Law in the Twentieth Century by Lawrence Meir Friedman Pdf

American law in the twentieth century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the center of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programs ranging from Social Security to the Securities Exchange Commission to the Food and Drug Administration. Major demographic changes have spurred legal developments in such areas as family law and immigration law. Dramatic advances in technology have placed new demands on the legal system in fields ranging from automobile regulation to intellectual property. Throughout the book, Friedman focuses on the social context of American law. He explores the extent to which transformations in the legal order have resulted from the social upheavals of the twentieth century--including two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and the sexual revolution. Friedman also discusses the international context of American law: what has the American legal system drawn from other countries? And in an age of global dominance, what impact has the American legal system had abroad? This engrossing book chronicles a century of revolutionary change within a legal system that has come to affect us all.

Author : John H. Langbein,Renee Lettow Lerner,Bruce P. Smith
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780735596047

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History of the Common Law by John H. Langbein,Renee Lettow Lerner,Bruce P. Smith Pdf

This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs.

Author : George P. Fletcher,Steve Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195167236

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American Law in a Global Context by George P. Fletcher,Steve Sheppard Pdf

Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.

Author : Jedidiah Joseph Kroncke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190233525

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The Futility of Law and Development by Jedidiah Joseph Kroncke Pdf

This text uses the Sino-American relationship to trace the decline of American legal cosmopolitanism from the Revolutionary era until today.