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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
George S Grossman |
| ISBN: | 0813367824 9780813367828 |
| OCLC Number: | 42435085 |
| Description: | xix, 556 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I : The Roots of American Law. Cherokee law in the eighteenth century / John Phillip Reid ; Greece and Rome / J.M. Kelly ; The common law of England / R.C. Van Caenegem ; Sir Edward Coke / Catherine Drinker Bowen ; Sir William Blackstone / Gareth Jones -- Part II : The Growth of American Law. The United States Constitution / Richard B. Bernstein ; Chief Justice John Marshall / Kent R. Newmyer ; Transformation of state laws / William E. Nelson ; Decline of the legal profession / Robert A. Ferguson ; The Fugitive Slave Law / Leonard W. Levy ; President Abraham Lincoln / Mark E. Neely, Jr. ; Justice Stephen J. Field / G. Edward White ; Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Bernard Schwartz ; Judge Learned Hand and President Theodore Roosevelt / Gerald Gunther ; Justice Louis D. Brandeis / Thomas K. McCraw ; The case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti / Osmond K. Fraenkel ; The constitutional revolution of 1937 / William E. Leuchtenburg ; The internment of Japanese Americans / Peter Irons ; War crimes / Ann Tusa and John Tusa ; Un-American activities / Jerold S. Auerbach ; The second Brown decision / Richard Kluger ; The right to counsel / Anthony Lewis ; The trial of the "Chicago Eight" / Jason Epstein ; U.S. v. Nixon / Stanley I. Kutler ; The Equal Rights Amendment / Deborah L. Rhode ; Toxic waste / Jonathan Harr ; The Rehnquist Court / David G. Savage -- Part III : American Law in the Twenty-First Century. Transformations / Carrie Menkel-Meadow ; Alternative dispute resolution / Linda R. Singer ; Grinding gears / Sheila Jasanoff ; Globalization / Martin Shapiro ; The law of outer space / Siegfried Wiessner ; Postmodernism / Gary Minda. |
| Responsibility: | edited by George S. Grossman ; with a foreword by Rennard Strickland. |
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