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A brief American legal history in a nutshell
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- Creator
- Michael C. Blumm
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- Brief American legal history
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Eagan, MN : West Academic Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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- xxviii, 552 pages ; 19 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781685617028, 1685617026
- OCLC
- on1374815928
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Some basics -- Law in colonial America -- Law in revolutionary America -- The Constitution -- Law in post-constitutional America -- Commerce and contract in early 19th century America -- Corporations, labor, and property in antebellum America -- Slavery in the 19th century -- The run-up to the Civil War -- Law and the Civil War -- Reconstruction and its destruction -- Other minorities in 19th century America -- Crime and morality in the 19th century -- Lawyers and legal education in the 19th century -- Judicial reaction to the regulatory state : the Lochner era -- World wars and civil liberties -- The New Deal -- Race : from Brown to affirmative action -- The Warren court -- Twentieth century common law developments -- Gender and the law -- The rise (and fall?) of environmental law -- Terror, patriotism, and insurrection in the 21st century -- The revival of states' rights -- Law and politics in the 21st century -- The activism of the Roberts Supreme Court -- Bibliographic essays