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Author Friedman, Lawrence Meir, 1930-

Title American law in the 20th century [electronic resource] / Lawrence M. Friedman.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

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Description xii, 722 p.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Law -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title American law in the twentieth century
ISBN 0300091370 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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