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Law's history : American legal thought and the transatlantic turn to history /

"This is a study of the central role of history in late-nineteenth century American legal thought. In the decades following the Civil War, the founding generation of professional legal scholars in the United States drew from the evolutionary social thought that pervaded Western intellectual lif...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rabban, David M., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The historical study of law in the United States
  • The historical nineteenth century
  • German legal scholarship
  • English legal scholarship : Sir Henry Maine
  • Henry Adams and his students : the origins of professional legal history in America
  • Melville M. Bigelow : from the history of Norman Procedure to proto-realism
  • Holmes the historian
  • Thayer on the history of evidence
  • Ames on the history of the common law
  • The history of American constitutional law
  • The historical school of American jurisprudence
  • Maitland : the maturity of English legal history
  • Pound : from historical to sociological jurisprudence
  • Pound's successors : twentieth-century interpretations of late nineteenth-century American legal thought.