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The spirit of American law

Author: George S Grossman
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This anthology of introductory readings on the roots, history, and future of American law is intended for the general public. The readings focus on the interactions of law with larger social forces,  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
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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