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)