| Description |
xii, 722 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-689) and index. |
| Contents |
Structure, power, and form : American public law, 1900-1932 -- The legal profession in the early twentieth century -- The law of business and commerce -- Crime and punishment in the new century -- Race relations and civil liberties -- The Roosevelt Revolution -- War and postwar : prosperity and the flowering of the welfare state -- Crime and criminal justice in the postwar world -- Courts, trials, and procedures in the twentieth century -- Race relations and civil rights -- The liability explosion : personal-injury law in the twentieth century -- Business law in an age of change -- The law of property -- Family law and family life -- Internal legal culture : the legal profession -- American legal culture in the twentieth century -- Backward and forward : counterrevolution and its aftershocks -- Getting around and spreading the word -- Law : an American export -- Taking stock. |
| Subject |
Law -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Title |
American law in the twentieth century |
| ISBN |
0300091370 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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