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American law in the 20th century /

American law in the twentieth century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the center of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programs ranging f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.