American law in the 20th century / Lawrence M. Friedman.

New Haven, Connecticut ; London : Yale University Press, 2002.

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American law in the twentieth century.

Law -- United States -- History.

Introduction : The way we were, the way we were going to be

Part I. The old order: 1. Structure, power, and form : American public law, 1900-1932

2. The legal profession in the early twentieth century

3. The law of business and commerce

4. Crime and punishment in the new century

5. Race relations and civil liberties

Part II. The New Deal and its successors: 6. The Roosevelt revolution

7. War and postwar : prosperity and the flowering of the welfare state

8. Crime and criminal justice in the postwar world

9. Courts, trials, and procedures in the twentieth century

10. Race relations and civil rights

11. The liability explosion : personal-injury law in the twentieth century

12. Business law in an age of change

13. The law of property

14. Family law and family life

15. Internal legal culture : the legal profession

16. American legal culture in the twentieth century

Part III. The way we live now : the Reagan and post-Reagan years: 17. Backward and forward : counterrevolution and its aftershocks

18. Getting around and spreading the word

19. Law : an American export

20. Taking stock.

Includes bibliography and index.

0300091370

xii, 722 p.