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Inventing American exceptionalism : the origins of American adversarial legal culture, 1800-1877 /
"When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial--dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances--that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent dec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The "natural elevation" of equity : quasi-inquisitorial procedure and the early nineteenth-century resurgence of equity
- A troubled inheritance : the English procedural tradition and its lawyer-driven reconfiguration in early nineteenth-century New York
- The non-revolutionary Field Code : democratization, docket pressures, and codification
- Cultural foundations of American adversarialism : civic republicanism and the decline of equity's quasi-inquisitorial tradition
- Market freedom and adversarial adjudication : the nineteenth-century American debates over (European) conciliation courts and the problem of procedural ordering
- Freedman's Bureau exception : the triumph of due (adversarial) process and the dawn of Jim Crow
- Conclusion : The question of American exceptionalism and the lessons of history.