American Legal History: Cases and Materials - Softcover

Hall, Kermit L.; Finkelman, Paul; Ely Jr., James W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190253266 ISBN 13: 9780190253264

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in American legal history, integrating the history of public and private law from America's colonial origins to the present. Devoting special attention to the interaction of social and legal change, American Legal History: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition, shows how legal ideas developed in tandem with specific historical events and reveals a rich legal culture unique to America. The book also deals with state and federal courts and looks at the relationship between the development of American society, politics, and economy and how it relates to the evolution of American law. Introductions and instructive headnotes accompany each document, tying legal developments to broader historical themes and providing a social and political context essential to an understanding of the history of law in America. Setting the legal challenges of the twenty-first century in a broad context, American Legal History, Fifth Edition, is an indispensable text for students and teachers of constitutional and legal history, the judicial process, and the effects of society on law.

About this title

About the Author:

Kermit L. Hall (1944-2006) was President of the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Paul Finkelman is the John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

James W. Ely, Jr., is Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law, Emeritus, and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University.

Review:

"The hardest part about teaching legal history is introducing students to the 'art and craft of the law.' By providing them with digestible excerpts that I can spend hours dissecting after, this text makes that part of my job much easier."--Oliver Lee Bateman, University of Texas at Arlington

"This book sets the standard against which all other document and materials books in the field are judged. It is the leading book, and rightly so."--Thomas C. Mackey, University of Louisville

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0190253266
• ISBN 13: 9780190253264
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 768