Table of Contents

Preface to the Enlarged Edition Preface to the First Edition Part One: American Legal Culture 1. The Law in United States History Willard Hurst 2. Notes Toward a History of American Justice Lawrence M. Friedman Part Two: Studies in Colonial Law 3. King's Law and Local Custom in Seventeenth-Century New England Julius Goebel, Jr. 4. The Legal Heritage of Plymouth Colony George L. Haskins 5. The Politics of Law in Colonial America: Controversies Over Chancery Courts and Equity Law in the Eighteenth Century Stanley N. Katz 6. Law and the Enforcement of Morals in Early America David Flaherty Part Three: The Revolution and the New Constitutional Order 7. Popular Uprisings and Civil Authority in Eighteenth-Century America Pauline Maier 8. Federalism and the Constitution: The Original Understanding Harry N. Scheiber 9. Liberty and the First Amendment: 1790-1800 Leonard W. Levy Part Four: Law and the Economy in Ante-bellum America 10. The Release of Energy Willard Hurst 11. An Overview of American Land Policy Paul W. Gates 12. Property Law, Expropriation, and Resource Allocation by Government, 1789-1910 Harry N. Scheiber 13. The Transformation in the Conception of Property in American Law, 1780-1860 Morton J. Horwitz 14. The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw Leonard W. Levy Part Five: Crime, Criminal Justice, and Violence 15. Emerging Notions of Modern Criminal Law in the Revolutionary Era: An Historical Perspective William E. Nelson 16. Violence and Vigilantism in American History Richard Maxwell Brown 17. Urbanization and Criminal Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Massachusetts as a Test Case Roger Lane Part Six: Slavery and the Civil War 18. Chattels Personal Kenneth M. Stampp 19. The American Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis Arthur Bestor Part Seven: The New Legal Order: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age 20. The Reconstruction of Federal Judicial Power, 1863-1876 William M. Wiecek 21. Justice Field and the Jurisprudence of Government-Business Relations: Some Parameters of Laissez Faire Constitutionalism, 1863-1897 Charles W. McCurdy Part Eight: Progressivism and the Law 22. Social Change and the Law of Industrial Accidents Lawrence M. Friedman and Jack Ladinsky 23. Legal Progressivism, the Courts, and the Crisis of the 1890s Arnold M. Paul Part Nine: Crime and Social Control in the Twentieth Century 24. Behavior Modification in Total Institutions: An Historical Overview David J. Rothman 25. Urban Crime and Criminal Justice: The Chicago Case Mark H. Hailer Part Ten: Race Relations and the Law 26. Negro Involuntary Servitude in the South, 1865-1940: A Preliminary Analysis William Cohen 27. Moorfield Storey and the Struggle for Equality William B. Hixson, Jr. 28. Earl Warren and the Brown Decision S. Sidney Ulmer Part Eleven: The Bar and the New jurisprudence 29: Lawyers and Clients in the Twentieth Century Jerold S. Auerbach 30. American jurisprudence between the Wars: Legal Realism and the Crisis of Democratic Theory Edward A. Purcell, Jr. Part Twelve: Restructuring the Legal Order: The New Deal Era 31. The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the American Legal Order Michael E. Parrish Part Thirteen: The Modern Legal Order: Public Law, the New Property, and the Regulatory State 32. The New Property Charles A. Reich 33. The Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation Abram Chayes 34. The "New" Social Regulation in Historical and Comparative Perspective David Vogel Part Fourteen: The Study of Constitutional and Legal History 35. Doctrinal Legacies and Institutional Innovations: Law and the Economy in American History Harry N. Scheiber 36. American Legal History: Past and Present Lawrence M. Friedman Notes Contributors

About the Author

Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Harry N. Scheiber is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.

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