American law in the 20th century / Lawrence M. Friedman.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Friedman, Lawrence Meir, 1930-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 722 p.

Table of Contents

• Structure, power, and form : American public law, 1900-1932
• The legal profession in the early twentieth century
• The law of business and commerce
• Crime and punishment in the new century
• Race relations and civil liberties
• The Roosevelt Revolution
• War and postwar : prosperity and the flowering of the welfare state
• Crime and criminal justice in the postwar world
• Courts, trials, and procedures in the twentieth century
• Race relations and civil rights
• The liability explosion : personal-injury law in the twentieth century
• Business law in an age of change
• The law of property
• Family law and family life
• Internal legal culture : the legal profession
• American legal culture in the twentieth century
• Backward and forward : counterrevolution and its aftershocks
• Getting around and spreading the word
• Law : an American export
• Taking stock.