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1	A History of American Law more books like this by Lawrence Meir Friedman add to wishlist In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. "A History of American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	American Legal History: Cases and Materials more books like this by Kermit L Hall, Paul Finkelman, James W Ely, Jr. add to wishlist Revised and expanded in this third edition, American Legal History now features a new co-author, James Ely, who is a specialist on property rights. This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in the field, which integrate the history of public and private law from America's colonial origins to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 more books like this by Morton J Horwitz add to wishlist Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 is considered one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. Since its publication in 1977, it has become the standard source on early nineteenth-century American law. In this monumental book, ... see all copies from $5.72! new only from $38.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	American Law in the 20th Century more books like this by Lawrence Meir Friedman add to wishlist One of America's most noted legal historians, Friedman presents his overview of the development and practice of American law in the 20th Century. A landmark work, AMERICAN LAW IN THE 20th CENTURY provides the history and circumstances surrounding the most important legal decisions over the past 100 years, from the formation of the SEC to the ... see all copies from $6.74! new only from $19.99! \| SVS
5	Law in America: A Short History more books like this by Lawrence Meir Friedman add to wishlist From the subject's greatest historian, the story of law in America serves as a powerful instrument for exposing the struggles for power and justice that have shaped this country, from its birth pangs to the present. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.52! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power Into a Threat to America's Future more books like this by Geoffrey Perret add to wishlist An award-winning presidential biographer and military historian explains that in choosing to fight un-winnable wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, Presidents Truman, Johnson, and George W. Bush collectively sought to establish a presidency so powerful that they have created a permanent threat to the Constitution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Magic Mirror: Law in American History more books like this by Kermit L Hall add to wishlist Weaving together themes from the history of public, private, and constitutional law, The Magic Mirror: Law in American History, Second Edition, recounts the roles that law--in all its many shapes and forms--has played in American history, from the days of the earliest English settlements in North America to the year 2007. It also provides ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History more books like this by Daniel Kanstroom add to wishlist The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every non-citizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigour against millions of deportees. We are a nation ... see all copies from $47.09! new only from $47.50! \| SVS
9	A Century of Juvenile Justice more books like this by Margaret K Rosenheim (Editor), Franklin E Zimring (Editor), David Spinoza Tanenhaus (Editor) add to wishlist Since its inception in Illinois in 1899, the juvenile court has become a remarkable legal and social institution all over the developed world, one that plays a singular role in modern government. At its founding, the juvenile court was intended to reverse longstanding legal traditions, and place the child's interests first in areas of law ranging ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $29.95!
10	Louis D. Brandeis: A Life more books like this by Melvin Urofsky add to wishlist The first full-scale biography in 25 years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court--a book that reveals not only Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, but also Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. see all copies from $17.50! new only from $25.50! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Spirit of the Common Law more books like this by Roscoe Pound add to wishlist A celebration of the common law and a warning for common law judges and lawyers to return to and embrace the pragmatism and judicial empiricism that define and energise the common law. Pound writes that the two fundamental doctrines of common law are the doctrine of precedents and the doctrine of supremacy of law. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $18.13! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights more books like this by David J Bodenhamer add to wishlist The only comprehensive survey of rights of the accused in America history, this readable new text guides the student through the development of these rights and their central relationship to liberty, justice, and social order. Integrating legal, social, and political history. Fair Trial focuses on the defendant's rights in theory and practice and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Life of the Law: The People and Cases That Have Shaped Our Society, from King Alfred to Rodney King more books like this by Alfred H Knight add to wishlist In witty, engaging essays for a wide-reading audience, distinguished attorney Alfred Knight reveals the nature of the law as a constantly evolving tradition, and recounts the particulars of some 20 cases, from King Alfred to Rodney King, that have made the law what it is today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law more books like this by Ward Churchill add to wishlist The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is "a nation of laws, not of men." In "Perversions of Justice," Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a series of 11 carefully crafted essays how the U.S. has consistently employed a corrupt from of ... see all copies from $2.33! new only from $12.29! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873--1935 more books like this by Professor Leigh Ann Wheeler add to wishlist In the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century, women reformers provoked tremendous political and cultural change. Temperance activists succeeded in enacting Prohibition and then saw it repealed. Welfare reformers built and then dismantled the Children's Bureau. Suffragists cheered their momentous victory and then quarreled over its ... see all copies from $17.45! new only from $24.49! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law more books like this by John Fabian Witt add to wishlist Ranging widely from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to post - New Deal limits, John Fabian Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the little-known stories of five patriots and critics. He shows how law and constitutionalism have powerfully shaped and been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.98! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Revolution and the Making of the Contemporary Legal Profession: England, France, and the United States more books like this by Michael Burrage add to wishlist The revolutions of France, the United States, and England each inspired dreams of creating legal institutions that did not depend on specialist intermediaries, and, in different ways, provoked attacks on the existing rules and government of the legal profession more widespread and severe than at any other time in their history. These dreams came ... see all copies from $74.94! new only from $81.95! \| SVS
18 view cover	American Legal Realism more books like this by William W Fisher, III (Editor), Thomas Reed (Editor), Morton J Horwitz (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology offers a set of readings in legal realism, the most influential movement in American legal history, and one that remains the subject of lively debate. The readings were written between 1900 and 1940 and are not generally available. see all copies from $9.15! new only from $38.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law more books like this by John Fabian Witt add to wishlist John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labour. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of ... see all copies from $21.80! new only from $21.80! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Spirit of American Law more books like this by George S Grossman (Editor), Rennard Strickland (Foreword by) add to wishlist Intended for the general public, the readings in this collection explore the roots of American law from pre-history to ancient Greece and Rome and the common law of England. Americas legal development is traced from the drafting of the Constitution to the Rehnquist Court. Themes along the way include the Golden Age of the early nineteenth ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.12! \| SVS
21 view cover	The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations 1789-1914 more books like this by Mark Weston Janis add to wishlist This volume, the first of two, charts the history and emergence of international law in the American common law tradition, from its English roots in the late 18th century to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. At the end of the 18th century it made little sense anywhere in the English-speaking world to talk of either international law or ... see all copies from $34.99! new only from $66.93!
22 view cover	Law and Jurisprudence in American History: Cases and Materials more books like this by Stephen B Presser add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00!
23 view cover	Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970 more books like this by Karl Boyd Brooks add to wishlist Most Americans - even environmentalists - date the emergence of laws protecting nature to the early 1970s. But Karl Boyd Brooks shows that, far from being a product of that activist decade, American environmental law emerged well before the first Earth Day, often in unexpected places far from Capitol Hill. Surveying the landscape from the end of ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $34.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History more books like this by Michael Robert Lemay (Editor), Elliott Robert Barkan (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of over 100 primary documents which explore immigration and naturalization issues throughout American history. They include court cases and opinion pieces, and explanatory introductions and the major laws on immigration and emigration are included. see all copies from $39.44! new only from $47.80!
25 view cover	The Common Law of Colonial America, Volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660 more books like this by William Edward Nelson add to wishlist William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history. Examining all archival legal material for the period 1607-1776 and synthesizing existing scholarship in a four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America shows how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies--initially established in ... see all copies from $23.55! new only from $23.55!

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