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

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

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  • 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.

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