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American legal history : cases and material / Kermit L. Hall, William M. Wiecek, Paul Finkelman.
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Publication details:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Record id:
1298
Subject:
Law -- United States -- History.
Contents:
1. Law in the morning of America: the beginnings of American Law, to 1760
The English Heritage
The beginnings of constitutionalism in America
The sources of law in America
Law and colonial society
Slavery
Colonial welfare systems
Class legislation and sumptuary laws
Democracy and deference
Law and the colonial economy
Early criminal law
2. Law in a republican revolution, 1760-1815
The American revolution
Republican state constitutionalism
Republican national constitutionalism
The new republic
Courts and judges in new nation
3. The active state and the mixed economy, 1812-1860
The golden age of American law
The second bank of the United States
State constitutions and the active state
Substantive law and economic growth
Labor in an industrializing society
Property
The growth of contract law in the nineteenth century
The evolution of modern tort law
4. Slavery, the civil war, and reconstruction
Slavery and state law
Slavery and the constitution
Secession and constitutional theory
The civil war and emancipation
Reconstruction and its aftermath: political change, black freedom, and the nadir of black rights
The end of civil rights
5. Nineteenth-century law and society, 1800-1900
Race
Gender and domestic relations
Crime and criminal justice
The excuse of crime
Late-nineteenth-century crime and morality
6. Bench, bar, and legal reform in the nineteenth century'
The lawyer in American society
Codification
The judge in American society
Legal Education
Legal Theory in the late nineteenth century
7. Industrialization and the regulatory state, 1860-1920
State regulation and the public interest
Judicial reaction to the regulatory state
8. Total war, civil liberties, and civil rights
Individual rights in a changing culture
World war I and civil liberties
Censorship during world war I
Radicals and civil liberties
World war II and legal developments
Civil liberties and criminal justice in crisis times
Civil rights and racial justice
Racial justice and criminal law
9. The rise of legal liberalism, economic reform, and the new deal, 1900-1945
Sociological jurisprudence, the American Law Institute, and legal realism
The new deal and the rise of legal liberalism
The limits of federal judicial power
10. The tensions of contemporary law and society 1945-1987
The liberal state: private law, rights consciousness, and economic equality
Legal liberalism and public law
The modern presidency and separation of powers
The contours of modern legal culture.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
019505908577
Phys. description:
xxiv, 589 pages ; 25 cm