The Cambridge History of Law in America: Volume 3 The Twentieth Century and After (1920-)

Author: Christopher Tomlins; Michael Grossberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521803076
Published In: April 2008
Format: Hardback
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Volume III of the Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations - in the state, in legal thought and education, in professional organization and life, in American federalism and governance, in domestic affairs and international relations. It shows how, politically, socially and culturally, the twentieth century was when law became ubiquitous in American life.

Among the themes discussed are innovation in the disciplinary and regulatory use of law, changes wrought by the intersection of law with explosive struggles around race, gender, class and sexuality, the emergence and development of the particularly American legal discourse of 'rights', and the expansion of this discourse to the international arena. The main focus of this last volume of the Cambridge History of Law in America is the accelerating pace of change, change which we can be confident will continue. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

Contents:: 1. Law and state, 1920-2000: institutional growth and structural change; Daniel R. Ernst; 2. Legal theory and legal education, 1920-2000; William W. Fisher III; 3. The American legal profession, 1870-2000; Robert W. Gordon; 4. The courst, Federalism and the Federal Constitution, 1920-2000; Edward A. Purcell, Jr.; 5. The litigation revolution; Lawrence M. Friedman; 6. Criminal justice in the United States; Michael Willrich; 7. Law and medicine; Leslie J. Reagan; 8. The Great Depression and the New Deal; Barry Cushman; 9. Labor's welfare state: defining workers, constructing citizens; Eileen Boris; 10. Poverty law and income support: from the progressive era to the war on welfare; Gwendolyn Mink, Samantha Ann Majic and Leandra Zarnow; 11. The rights revolution in the twentieth century; Mark Tushnet; 12. Race and rights; Michael J. Klarman; 13. Heterosexuality as a legal regime; Margot Canaday; 14. Law and the environment; Betsy Mendelsohn; 15. Agriculture and the state, 1789-2000; Victoria Saker Woeste; 16. Law and economic change during the short twentieth century; John Henry Schlegel; 17. The corporate economy: ideologies of regulation and antitrust, 1920-2000; Gregory A. Mark; 18. Law and commercial popular culture in the twentieth-century United States; Norman L. Rosenberg; 19. Making law, making war, making America; Mary L. Dudziak; 20. Law, lawyers and empire; Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth.