The Cambridge history of law in America. Volume 3, The twentieth century and after (1920-) / edited by Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grossberg, Michael, 1950- editor.

Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States--History--20th century.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 958 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations, and shows how, politically, socially and culturally, the twentieth century was when law became ubiquitous in American life. Among the themes discussed are innovation in the disciplinary and regulatory use of law, changes wrought by the intersection of law with explosive struggles around race, gender, class and sexuality, the emergence and development of the particularly American legal discourse of 'rights', and the expansion of this discourse to the international arena. The main focus of this last volume of The Cambridge History of Law in America is the accelerating pace of change, change which we can be confident will continue. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

Contents:

The twentieth century and after (1920- )

Editor's preface

1. Law and state, 1920-2000 : institutional growth and structural change / Daniel R. Ernst

2. Legal theory and legal education, 1920-2000 / William W. Fisher III

3. The American legal profession, 1870-2000 / Robert W. Gordon

4. The courts, Federalism and the Federal Constitution, 1920-2000 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

5. The litigation revolution / Lawrence M. Friedman

6. Criminal justice in the United States / Michael Willrich

7. Law and medicine / Leslie J. Reagan

8. The Great Depression and the New Deal / Barry Cushman

9. Labor's welfare state : defining workers, constructing citizens / Eileen Boris

10. Poverty law and income support : from the progressive era to the war on welfare / Gwendolyn Mink, Samantha Ann Majic and Leandra Zarnow

11. The rights revolution in the twentieth century / Mark Tushnet

12. Race and rights / Michael J. Klarman

13. Heterosexuality as a legal regime / Margot Canaday

14. Law and the environment / Betsy Mendelsohn

15. Agriculture and the state, 1789-2000 / Victoria Saker Woeste

16. Law and economic change during the short twentieth century / John Henry Schlegel

17. he corporate economy : ideologies of regulation and antitrust, 1920-2000 / Gregory A. Mark

18. Law and commercial popular culture in the twentieth-century United States / Norman L. Rosenberg

19. Making law, making war, making America / Mary L. Dudziak

20. Law, lawyers and empire / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth

Bibliographic essays

Notes on contributors

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139054195 (ebook)

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