Law S History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History
(Part of the Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Series)
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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 life on both sides of the Atlantic. Their historical analysis of law as an inductive science rejected deductive theories and supported moderate legal reform, conclusions...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107425085
ISBN13:9781107425088
Release Date:July 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:582 Pages
Weight:1.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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