Rabban, David M.

Law's History: American legal thought and the transatlantic turn to history / by David M. Rabban - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. - xv, 564p.; 24cm. - Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society/ by Christopher Tomlines .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction
I - The Historical Study of Law in the United States
Part I - The European Background
II - The Historical Nineteenth Century
III - German Legal Scholarship
IV - English Legal Scholarship
PART II - The Historical Turn in American Legal Scholarship
V - Henry Adams and His Students
VI - Melville M. Bigelow
VIII - Thayer on the History of Evidence
IX - Ames on the History of the Common Law
X - The History of American Constitutional Law
XI - The Historical School of American Jurisprudence
XII - Maitland
XIII - Pound
XIV - Pound’s Successors
Conclusion


This is a study of the central role of history in late nineteenth-century American legal thought.(Source: WorldCat)

9781107425088


Law- United State- Philosophy- History- 19th century
Law- United State- Interpretation and construction- History- 19th century
Law- Study and teaching- United States- History- 19th century

349.7309 / RAB