Subjects:

Other Jurisdictions , Legal History, USA

Contents:

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 courst, 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. The 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.

Volume III 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 - in the state, in legal thought and education, in professional organization and life, in American federalism and governance, in domestic affairs and international relations. It 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.