American Comparative Law: A History
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Place of publication:
Oxford
Date:
2022
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1 online resource (585 pages)
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Englisch
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This book details both the intellectual and social history of American legal rules, institutions, ideology, and culture that had a foreign component, either by import or after 1900 also by export from the United States to other legal systems. Combining legal history and comparative law, the volume proceeds chronologically through seven historical periods beginning with the religious and cultural diversity that existed in the 13 British colonies and its relevance for legal development to the twentieth century, which saw sustained scholarly comparative law.
Cover -- American Comparative Law -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Legal History and Comparative Law -- A. Introduction -- 1. Historical Comparative Law and Comparative Legal History -- 2. Methodological Issues -- 3. Scope of the Book -- B. Historiography: 1771 to 1900 -- 1. Establishing an American System of Legal Rules -- 2. The Codification Debate and Historical Jurisprudence -- C. Historiography: 1900 to 1950 -- 1. James Carter -- 2. Roscoe Pound -- 3. Max Radin -- 4. The Dominance of Intellectual Legal History -- D. Historiography: 1950 to 2000 -- 1. Perry Miller, Intellectual Legal History, and Its Decline -- 2. Willard Hurst and the Emergence of Social Legal History -- 3. Lawrence Friedman and a Comprehensive American Social History of Law -- 4. The Rise of American Legal History as a Distinct Discipline -- E. Historiography: The Twenty-First Century -- 1. Eclecticism, Culture, and Thick Description: The Return of Intellectual Legal History -- 2. Legal History Meets Comparative Law -- 2. British Colonization in North America -- A. Prelude: Comparative Law in England -- 1. Legal Education and Literature -- 2. Roman and Canon Law Influence in England -- B. Roman and Civil Law in Colonial British America -- 1. Natural Law, the Law of Nations, and Moral Philosophy -- 2. Self-Study and Legal Apprenticeship -- C. Social Factors Affecting Law -- D. Lawyers and Courts -- E. Religious and Cultural Variation -- 1. Religious Establishment and Attempts at Tolerance -- 2. Regional and Intraregional Religious Differences -- 3. The Anglicization Thesis -- 4. Eighteenth-Century Immigrants: The Germans and Scots -- 5. Regionalism and Legal Diversity -- F. John Adams: An American Comparatist -- 1. Study of the Civil Law -- 2. Law and Politics in Writing and Practice -- 3. The Boston Declaration of 1772.
Cover -- American Comparative Law -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Legal History and Comparative Law -- A. Introduction -- 1. Historical Comparative Law and Comparative Legal History -- 2. Methodological Issues -- 3. Scope of the Book -- B. Historiography: 1771 to 1900 -- 1. Establishing an American System of Legal Rules -- 2. The Codification Debate and Historical Jurisprudence -- C. Historiography: 1900 to 1950 -- 1. James Carter -- 2. Roscoe Pound -- 3. Max Radin -- 4. The Dominance of Intellectual Legal History -- D. Historiography: 1950 to 2000 -- 1. Perry Miller, Intellectual Legal History, and Its Decline -- 2. Willard Hurst and the Emergence of Social Legal History -- 3. Lawrence Friedman and a Comprehensive American Social History of Law -- 4. The Rise of American Legal History as a Distinct Discipline -- E. Historiography: The Twenty-First Century -- 1. Eclecticism, Culture, and Thick Description: The Return of Intellectual Legal History -- 2. Legal History Meets Comparative Law -- 2. British Colonization in North America -- A. Prelude: Comparative Law in England -- 1. Legal Education and Literature -- 2. Roman and Canon Law Influence in England -- B. Roman and Civil Law in Colonial British America -- 1. Natural Law, the Law of Nations, and Moral Philosophy -- 2. Self-Study and Legal Apprenticeship -- C. Social Factors Affecting Law -- D. Lawyers and Courts -- E. Religious and Cultural Variation -- 1. Religious Establishment and Attempts at Tolerance -- 2. Regional and Intraregional Religious Differences -- 3. The Anglicization Thesis -- 4. Eighteenth-Century Immigrants: The Germans and Scots -- 5. Regionalism and Legal Diversity -- F. John Adams: An American Comparatist -- 1. Study of the Civil Law -- 2. Law and Politics in Writing and Practice -- 3. The Boston Declaration of 1772.
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
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Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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