American Law in the Twentieth Century
eBook - PDF

American Law in the Twentieth Century

  1. 736 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

American Law in the Twentieth Century

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300135022
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Legal History
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: The Way We Were, the Way We Were Going to Be
  4. Part I. The Old Order
  5. 1. Structure, Power, and Form: American Public Law, 1900–1932
  6. 2. The Legal Profession in the Early Twentieth Century
  7. 3. The Law of Business and Commerce
  8. 4. Crime and Punishment in the New Century
  9. 5. Race Relations and Civil Liberties
  10. Part II. The New Deal and Its Successors
  11. 6. The Roosevelt Revolution
  12. 7. War and Postwar: Prosperity and the Flowering of the Welfare State
  13. 8. Crime and Criminal Justice in the Postwar World
  14. 9. Courts, Trials, and Procedures in the Twentieth Century
  15. 10. Race Relations and Civil Rights
  16. 11. The Liability Explosion: Personal-Injury Law in the Twentieth Century
  17. 12. Business Law in an Age of Change
  18. 13. The Law of Property
  19. 14. Family Law and Family Life
  20. 15. Internal Legal Culture: The Legal Profession
  21. 16. American Legal Culture in the Twentieth Century
  22. Part III. The Way We Live Now: The Reagan and Post-Reagan Years
  23. 17. Backward and Forward: Counterrevolution and Its Aftershocks
  24. 18. Getting Around and Spreading the Word
  25. 19. Law: An American Export
  26. 20. Taking Stock
  27. Notes
  28. A Bibliographical Note
  29. Index