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A History of American Law 4th Edition

A History of American Law 4th Edition

Name: A History of American Law 4th Edition
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780190070885
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Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
ISBN: 9780190070885

By Lawrence M. Friedman

Oxford University Press October 2019

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ISBN-13: 9780190070885
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: October 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking closely at timely issues like race relations, the book covers the changing configurations of commercial law, criminal law, family law, and the law of property. Friedman furthermore interrogates the vicissitudes of the legal profession and legal education. The underlying theory of this eminently readable book is that the law is the product of society. In this way, we can view the history of the legal system through a sociological prism as it has evolved over the years.

Prologue

Part I: The Beginnings: American Law in the Colonial Period

Part II: From the Revolution to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century:1776-1850

Chapter 1 The Republic of Bees

Chapter 2 Outposts of the Law: The Frontier and the Civil Law Fringe

Chapter 3 Law and the Economy: 1776-1850

Chapter 4 The Law of Personal Status: Wives, Paupers, and Slaves

Chapter 5 An American Law of Property

Chapter 6 The Law of Commerce and Trade

Chapter 7 Crime and Punishment: And a Footnote on Tort

Chapter 8 The Bar and Its Works

Part III: American Law to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 1 Blood and Gold: Some Main Themes in the Law in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 2 Judges and Courts: 1850-1900

Chapter 3 Procedure and Practice: An Age of Reform

Chapter 4 The Land and Other Property

Chapter 5 Administrative Law and Regulation of Business

Chapter 6 Torts

Chapter 7 The Underdogs: 1850-1900

Chapter 8 The Law of Corporations

Chapter 9 Commerce, Labor, and Taxation

Chapter 10 Crime and Punishment

Chapter 11 The Legal Profession: The Training and Literature of Law

Chapter 12 The Legal Profession: At Work

Part IV: The Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 Leviathan Comes of Age

Chapter 2 The Growth of the Law

Chapter 3 Internal Legal Culture in the Twentieth Century: Lawyers, Judges, and Law Books

Chapter 4 Regulation, Welfare, and the Rise of Environmental Law

Chapter 5 Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 6 Family Law in the Twentieth Century

Epilogue A Final Word

Bibliographical Essay

Index

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