Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage.
- David J. Bodenhamer is professor of history and executive director of The Polis Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author or editor of six books, including Fair Trail: Rights of the Accused in American History and The Bill of Rights in Modern America: After 200 Years (with James W. Ely, Jr). - The Hon. Randall T. Shepard, an Evansville native, has become one of the most respected jurists in the country. Shepard was appointed to the Indiana Supreme in 1985 and was later promoted to Chief Justice of the court.
“Every state should have a book like this, and the authors and
editors deserve a great deal of credit for adding this one to the
four existing volumes in the Law, Society and Politics in the
Midwest series.”
*Indiana Magazine of History*
“Hoosier lawyers will covet this book because it amounts to a
mini-encyclopedia that expertly lays out the basic facts and
patterns of the state’s legal history. Historians may hope it does
even more. If readers come to consider the state and its system of
justice as historically constructed … then The History of Indiana’s
Law will have performed an immensely valuable service to the state
as well as to its historians and lawyers.”
*The American Journal of Legal History*
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