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A History of American Law, Revised Edition

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451602669
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book A History of American Law, Revised Edition written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

History of the Common Law

Author : John H. Langbein
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0735596042
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book History of the Common Law written by John H. Langbein and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Law's History

Author : David M. Rabban
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761913
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Law's History written by David M. Rabban and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

Author : Morton J. HORWITZ
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038789
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 written by Morton J. HORWITZ and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Encyclopedia of American Law

Author : David A. Schultz
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109911
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of American Law written by David A. Schultz and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's an old saying: Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. Yet for most people

The Growth of American Law

Author : James Willard Hurst
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584771941
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Growth of American Law written by James Willard Hurst and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurst, James Willard. The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. xiii, 502 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-194-1. Cloth. $90. * The first contemporary history of the development of American law. A survey of the nature and success of the institution of American law and its agencies and legislative bodies from roughly 1740-1940. Considered "...a pioneering attempt to evaluate in broad terms the contributions to the development of American law made by its five chief formative agencies, the legislatures, the courts, the constitution-making process, the bar and the executive." William F. Fracher, Mo. L. Rev. 15:332-333. By the major legal historian whose writings led "... scholars from other disciplines... to look at law with a fresh and sometimes illuminating eye." Friedman, A History of American Law 595. An important work that has been highly regarded for its social perspective, Henry Steele Commager called it "...a pioneer work in this badly neglected field ...combine(s) scholarship, insight, and narrative and analytical skill in a striking manner." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 140.

A History of American Law: Third Edition

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743282582
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book A History of American Law: Third Edition written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

American Law in a Global Context

Author : George P. Fletcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195167238
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book American Law in a Global Context written by George P. Fletcher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.

Legal Information and the Development of American Law

Author : Richard Allen Danner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Legal Information and the Development of American Law written by Richard Allen Danner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Legal History

Author : Kermit L. Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book American Legal History written by Kermit L. Hall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded in this third edition, American Legal History now features a new coauthor, James Ely, who is a specialist in the history of property rights. This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in the field, which integrates the history of public and private law from America's colonial origins to the present. Devoting special attention to the interaction of social and legal change, it shows how legal ideas developed in tandem with specific historical events and reveals a rich legal culture unique to America. The book also deals with state and federal courts and looks at the relationship between the development of American society, politics, and economy, and how it relates to the evolution of American law. Introductions and instructive headnotes accompany each document, tying legal developments to broader historical themes and providing a social and political context essential to an understanding of the history of law in America. American Legal History, Third Edition, offers fresh material throughout and increased coverage of cases on such topics as slave law, politics, and terrorism. The authors have incorporated more cases dealing with minority rights, including Native American and Asian American rights, women's rights, and gender and gay rights. Two new chapters have been added to this edition: one on law and economics in modern America, including a discussion of the new federalism, and the other on law, politics, and terrorism, including a full discussion of the USA PATRIOT Act. The "since 1945" portion includes up-to-date material and current cases. The section on English background and colonial America has been expanded. In addition, there is new material on the most recent developments in American constitutional and legal history. Setting the legal challenges of the twenty-first century in a broad context, American Legal History, Third Edition, is an essential text for students and teachers of constitutional and legal history, the judicial process, and the effects of society on law.

Law in America

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588362507
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Law in America written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Law in America is a little gem. It is a peerless introduction to our legal history—concise, clear, tellingly told, and beautifully written. The greatest living historian of American law has done it again.” —Stanley N. Katz, former president of the American Society for Legal History and the Organization of American Historians “All societies have laws, but neither all laws nor all legal systems are alike. No one has thought more deeply or written more clearly about the peculiar role of law in American life than Lawrence Friedman. In this trenchant, illuminating book, he distills a lifetime of scholarship and teaching into a concise and provocative explanation of the role that law has played in shaping the distinctive contours of American history and culture.” —David M. Kennedy, professor of history at Stanford University and author of Freedom from Fear Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a supreme example of the historian’s art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.

American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199766002
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise examination of the central role of legal decisions in shaping key social issues explores topics ranging from Native American affairs and slavery to business and home life as well as how criminal and civil offenses have been addressed in positive and negative ways. Original.

The Ages of American Law

Author : Grant Gilmore
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021104X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Ages of American Law written by Grant Gilmore and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following its publication in 1974, Grant Gilmore's compact portrait of the development of American law from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century became a classic. In this new edition, the portrait is brought up to date with a new chapter by Philip Bobbitt that surveys the trajectory of American law since the original publication. Bobbitt also provides a Foreword on Gilmore and the celebrated lectures that inspired The Ages of American Law. "Sharp, opinionated, and as pungent as cheddar."—New Republic "This book has the engaging qualities of good table talk among a group of sophisticated and educated friends—given body by broad learning and a keen imagination and spiced with wit."—Willard Hurst

American Law in a Global Context

Author : George P. Fletcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199883271
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book American Law in a Global Context written by George P. Fletcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Law in a Global Context is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts and techniques of the common law used in U.S. legal practice. The ideas central to the development and practice of American law, as well as constitutional law, contracts, property, criminal law, and courtroom procedure, are all presented in their historical and intellectual contexts, accessible to the novice but with insight that will inform the expert. Actual cases illuminate each major subject, engaging readers in the legal process and the arguments between real people that make American law an ever-evolving system.

The American Law Institute

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019768534X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The American Law Institute written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centennial of the American Law Institute is a landmark event. A lifespan of one hundred years is significant for a law reform project. Most such initiatives terminate when they achieve their limited goals, they fail, or members lose interest when their funding runs out. Instead, the American Law Institute is the preeminent legal reform organisation in the United States and remains an enterprise in full vigour, with an enormous number of projects completed and an impressive array of projects in forward motion. The American Law Institute: A Centennial History brings together an outstanding group of expert scholars, several of them current or former Reporters for the ALI Restatements of Law, to provide an in-depth scholarly history of the ALI, its role in legal reform, and the various ways it has impacted law in the United States. The resulting collection of essays provides original and important perspectives on both the ALI and its relevance for American Law. This book offers a window into the course of legal thought over the past century and is a must-read for academics, practitioners, and all those interested in the way laws are shaped within the United States.

A History of American Law: Third Edition

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Touchstone Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of American Law: Third Edition written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Touchstone Books. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of law in America from the colonial period to the present.

The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860

Author : Morton J. Horwitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674903714
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 written by Morton J. Horwitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.