American legal history : cases and materials
In this second updated and expanded edition, new material encompasses developments in American constitutional and legal history, with special attention given to issues of death and dying, criminal justice, and the feminist critique of the law.
Print Book, English, 1996
Oxford University Press, New York, 1996
Casebooks (Law)
xxiv, 610 pages ; 25 cm
9780195097634, 9780195097641, 0195097637, 0195097645
32509430
1. Law in the Morning of America: The Beginnings of American Law, to 1760
2. Law in a Republican Revolution, 1760-1815
3. The Active State and the Mixed Economy, 1812-1860
4. Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
5. Nineteenth-Century Law and Society, 1800-1900
6. Bench, Bar, and Legal Reform in the Nineteenth Century
7. Industrialization and the Regulatory State, 1860-1920
8. Total War, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights
9. The Rise of Legal Liberalism, Economic Reform, and the New Deal, 1900-1945
10. The Tensions of Contemporary Law and Society, 1945-1987
11. Individual and Community in the Legal Culture, 1988-1994