American Law In The Twentieth Century
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Author | : Lawrence Meir Friedman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 1468 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300102992 |
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American law in the twentieth century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the center of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programs ranging from Social Security to the Securities Exchange Commission to the Food and Drug Administration. Major demographic changes have spurred legal developments in such areas as family law and immigration law. Dramatic advances in technology have placed new demands on the legal system in fields ranging from automobile regulation to intellectual property. Throughout the book, Friedman focuses on the social context of American law. He explores the extent to which transformations in the legal order have resulted from the social upheavals of the twentieth century--including two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and the sexual revolution. Friedman also discusses the international context of American law: what has the American legal system drawn from other countries? And in an age of global dominance, what impact has the American legal system had abroad? This engrossing book chronicles a century of revolutionary change within a legal system that has come to affect us all.
Author | : Lawrence Meir Friedman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300091373 |
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In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work "A History of American Law, " Friedman offers a monumental history of American law throughout the great upheavals of the 20th century: two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and the sexual revolution.
Author | : Benjamin Allen Coates |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190495952 |
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'Legalist Empire' explores the intimate connections between international law and empire in the United States from 1898 to 1919.
Author | : Joanna L. Grossman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2011-07-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1400839777 |
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A comprehensive social history of families and family law in twentieth-century America Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life. The story of family law in the twentieth century is complex. This was the century that said goodbye to common-law marriage and breach-of-promise lawsuits. This was the century, too, of the sexual revolution and women's liberation, of gay rights and cohabitation. Marriage lost its powerful monopoly over legitimate sexual behavior. Couples who lived together without marriage now had certain rights. Gay marriage became legal in a handful of jurisdictions. By the end of the century, no state still prohibited same-sex behavior. Children in many states could legally have two mothers or two fathers. No-fault divorce became cheap and easy. And illegitimacy lost most of its social and legal stigma. These changes were not smooth or linear—all met with resistance and provoked a certain amount of backlash. Families took many forms, some of them new and different, and though buffeted by the winds of change, the family persisted as a central institution in society. Inside the Castle tells the story of that institution, exploring the ways in which law tried to penetrate and control this most mysterious realm of personal life.
Author | : Grant Gilmore |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-01-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 030021104X |
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Following its publication in 1974, Grant Gilmore's compact portrait of the development of American law from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century became a classic. In this new edition, the portrait is brought up to date with a new chapter by Philip Bobbitt that surveys the trajectory of American law since the original publication. Bobbitt also provides a Foreword on Gilmore and the celebrated lectures that inspired The Ages of American Law. "Sharp, opinionated, and as pungent as cheddar."—New Republic "This book has the engaging qualities of good table talk among a group of sophisticated and educated friends—given body by broad learning and a keen imagination and spiced with wit."—Willard Hurst
Author | : Michael Grossberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107605053 |
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Volume I of the Cambridge History of Law in America begins the account of law in America with the very first moments of European colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American republic. The book discusses the place of law in regard to colonization and empire, indigenous peoples, government and jurisdiction, population migrations, economic and commercial activity, religion, the creation of social institutions, and revolutionary politics. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.
Author | : Vine Deloria |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806124247 |
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Offers eleven essays on federal Indian policy.
Author | : Lawrence M. Friedman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 786 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1451602669 |
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A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. 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 Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice. Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.
Author | : Morton J. Horwitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lawrence M. Friedman |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2004-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812972856 |
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Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a supreme example of the historian’s art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.