Authors: Lawrence M. Friedman
ISBN-13: 9780684869889, ISBN-10: 0684869888
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Lawrence M. Friedman was born in 1930, educated at the University of Chicago where he earned his law degree, and admitted to the Illinois bar in 1951. He received a graduate degree from the University of Chicago Law School in English legal history. After serving in the United States Army, he practiced with a law firm in Chicago and subsequently entered the teaching profession. He has taught at St. Louis University, the University of Wisconsin, and, since 1968, at Stanford University, where he is now Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law. He is the author of Contract Law in America: A Social and Economic Case Study (1965); Government and Slum Housing: A Century of Frustration (1968); Law and the Behavioral Sciences (coeditor; 1969, 2nd edition, 1977); The Legal System: A Social Science Perspective (1975); Law and Society: An Introduction (1977); American Law and the Constitutional Order: Historical Perspectives (coeditor, 1978); Law and Social Change in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America (coeditor, 1979); The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910 (coauthor, 1981); American Law (1984); Your Time Will Come (1985); and Total Justice (1985). He has contributed more than eighty articles to legal and associated journals. Professor Friedman is the past president of the Law and Society Association, and a past Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of a number of awards for writing and teaching. He is married and has two daughters.
In this update of the 1985 edition cited in Books for College Libraries, 3rd ed., Friedman (law, Stanford U.) presents a social history tracing law in America from the Colonial and frontier eras to the present. The accessible reader's main emphasis remains on the 19th century but treatment of such contemporary legal issues as environmental law, the death penalty, and family law has been expanded and in some cases, reflects the author's evolving views. He concludes that the US legal system is unlikely to change dramatically in the foreseeable future. A biographical essay offers insight into uneven coverage of this subject. The first edition appeared in 1973. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pt. I | The beginnings : American law in the colonial period | 1 |
Pt. II | From the revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century : 1776-1850 | 63 |
Ch. 1 | The republic of bees | 65 |
Ch. 2 | Outposts of the law : the frontier and the civil law fringe | 105 |
Ch. 3 | Law and the economy : 1776-1850 | 120 |
Ch. 4 | The law of personal status : wives, paupers, and slaves | 140 |
Ch. 5 | An American law of property | 167 |
Ch. 6 | The law of commerce and trade | 189 |
Ch. 7 | Crime and punishment : and a footnote on tort | 207 |
Ch. 8 | The bar and its works | 226 |
Pt. III | American law to the close of the nineteenth century | 251 |
Ch. 1 | Blood and gold : some main themes in the law in the last half of the nineteenth century | 253 |
Ch. 2 | Judges and courts : 1850-1900 | 279 |
Ch. 3 | Procedure and practice : an age of reform | 293 |
Ch. 4 | The land and other property | 309 |
Ch. 5 | Administrative law and regulation of business | 329 |
Ch. 6 | Torts | 350 |
Ch. 7 | The underdogs : 1850-1900 | 367 |
Ch. 8 | The law of corporations | 390 |
Ch. 9 | Commerce, labor, and taxation | 404 |
Ch. 10 | Crime and punishment | 434 |
Ch. 11 | The legal profession : the training and literature of law | 463 |
Ch. 12 | The legal profession : at work | 483 |
Pt. IV | The twentieth century | 501 |
Ch. 1 | Leviathan comes of age | 503 |
Ch. 2 | The growth of the law | 516 |
Ch. 3 | Internal legal culture in the twentieth century : lawyers, judges, and law books | 538 |
Ch. 4 | Regulation, welfare, and the rise of environmental law | 554 |
Ch. 5 | Crime and punishment in the twentieth century | 567 |
Ch. 6 | Family law in the twentieth century | 576 |