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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Riccobono Seminar Of Roman Law In America: The Lost Years, Timothy G. Kearley
The Riccobono Seminar Of Roman Law In America: The Lost Years, Timothy G. Kearley
Timothy G. Kearley
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Stephen Alton
The origin of this essay is a presentation the author made at the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas on December 10, 2008. This essay is derived from the author's presentation, which originally was entitled "A Brief and Highly Selective History of American Legal Education and Jurisprudence. " In this essay, the author provides an overview of the history and development of legal education in America, emphasizing the establishment and evolution of the case method of instruction in American law schools and focusing on the influence of American jurisprudence on the development of legal education in …
Creating Difference: The Legal Production Of Race In American Slavery, Shaun N. Ramdin
Creating Difference: The Legal Production Of Race In American Slavery, Shaun N. Ramdin
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This dissertation examines the legal construction and development of racial difference as considered in literature written or set during the final years of American slavery. While there had consistently been a conceptual correspondence between black skin and enslavement, race or racial difference did not become the unqualified explanation of enslavement until fairly late in the institution’s history. Specifically, as slavery’s stability became increasingly threatened through the nineteenth century by abolitionism and racial slippage, race became the singular and explicit rationale for its existence and perpetuation. I argue that the primary discourse of this justificatory rationale was legal: through law race …
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
All Faculty Scholarship
A widely accepted model of American legal history is that "classical" legal thought, which dominated much of the nineteenth century, was displaced by "progressive" legal thought, which survived through the New Deal and in some form to this day. Within its domain, this was a revolution nearly on a par with Copernicus or Newton. This paradigm has been adopted by both progressive liberals who defend this revolution and by classical liberals who lament it.
Classical legal thought is generally identified with efforts to systematize legal rules along lines that had become familiar in the natural sciences. This methodology involved not …
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert Hovenkamp
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert Hovenkamp
Herbert Hovenkamp
A widely accepted model of American legal history is that classical legal thought, which dominated much of the nineteenth century, was displaced by progressive legal thought, which survived through the New Deal and in some form to this day. Within its domain, this was a revolution nearly on a par with Copernicus or Newton. This paradigm has been adopted by both progressive liberals who defend this revolution and by classical liberals who lament it. Classical legal thought is generally identified with efforts to systematize legal rules along lines that had become familiar in the natural sciences. This methodology involved not …
The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
The historical material and resources available for American legal historians is both too much and too little. Hundreds of published case opinions became thousands of opinions by the end of the 1820s, leading lawyers to conclude that no one could know the entirety of the law. Yet this cascade of information is also too little, because the work of treatise writers and magazine editors of the time was ruthlessly focused on then-existing legal concerns.
For these reasons, James L. Haley works within difficult strictures in his book, The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986. Because his story is about …
Lost Options For Mutual Gain? The Layperson, The Lawyer, And Dispute Resolution In Early America, Carli N. Conklin
Lost Options For Mutual Gain? The Layperson, The Lawyer, And Dispute Resolution In Early America, Carli N. Conklin
Faculty Publications
In 1786, legal reform activist Benjamin Austin undertook a campaign to promote the use of arbitration over litigation as the primary method of dispute resolution in Massachusetts. Although supported by a groundswell of anti-lawyer sentiment, Austin ultimately failed in securing the triumph of arbitration. Exploring Austin's pamphlet campaign in its historical context not only provides us with a snapshot of the arguments for and against dispute resolution in early America, but also serves as a corrective to the prevailing accounts of arbitration in American legal history. This article explores the context and content of Austin's pamphlet campaign and its implications …
Teaching Legal History In The Age Of Practical Legal Education, Douglas E. Abrams
Teaching Legal History In The Age Of Practical Legal Education, Douglas E. Abrams
Faculty Publications
Historian Henry Steele Commager said, “History is useful in the sense that art is useful--or music or poetry or flowers; perhaps even in the sense that religion and philosophy is useful .... For without these things life would be poorer and meaner.” For law students who anticipate a career representing private and public clients and participating in public discussion, however, study of legal history carries rewards beyond intellectual stimulation and personal satisfaction. Law students contemplating client representation should ponder Justice Holmes's advice that “[h]istory must be a part of the study [of law], because without it we cannot know the …
Teaching American Legal History Through Storytelling, Michael S. Ariens
Teaching American Legal History Through Storytelling, Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
Distinct from facts and truths, the power of storytelling can serve as a method of teaching American Legal History. A course in American Legal History can facilitate discussion into whether the rule of law has been the rule or exception in the history of American law. Integral to this overarching story are three storylines that surface throughout the course: the development of law in American political history; the ideological underpinnings of legal doctrine development; and the rise and decline of different approaches to legal thought and their effect on legal education.
The course begins with a chronological overview of the …
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Faculty Scholarship
The origin of this essay is a presentation the author made at the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas on December 10, 2008. This essay is derived from the author's presentation, which originally was entitled "A Brief and Highly Selective History of American Legal Education and Jurisprudence. " In this essay, the author provides an overview of the history and development of legal education in America, emphasizing the establishment and evolution of the case method of instruction in American law schools and focusing on the influence of American jurisprudence on the development of legal education in …
Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, And The Administration Of The Modern Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, And The Administration Of The Modern Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The First World War was a pivotal event for American political and economic development, particularly in the realm of public finance. For it was during the war years that the federal government ended its traditional reliance on regressive import duties and excise taxes as principal sources of revenue and began a modern era of fiscal governance, one based primarily on the direct and progressive taxation of personal and corporate income. Like other aspects of war mobilization, this fiscal revolution required an enormous infusion of national administrative resources. Nowhere was this more evident than within the corridors of the U.S. Treasury …
Anger, Irony, And The Formal Rationality Of Professionalism, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Anger, Irony, And The Formal Rationality Of Professionalism, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Thinking About Law And Creativity: On The 100 Most Creative Moments In American Law, Robert F. Blomquist
Thinking About Law And Creativity: On The 100 Most Creative Moments In American Law, Robert F. Blomquist
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Short History Of Hearsay Reform, With Particular Reference To Hoffman V. Palmer, Eddie Morgan And Jerry Frank, Michael S. Ariens
A Short History Of Hearsay Reform, With Particular Reference To Hoffman V. Palmer, Eddie Morgan And Jerry Frank, Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
Much of the history of the American law of evidence, including its most contentious issue, hearsay, is the story of stasis and reform. The case of Hoffman v. Palmer represents one of few cases concerning hearsay known by name, and illustrates that “false” evidence has often been used to caution against efforts proclaiming “radical reform” of the law of evidence.
In this case involving a collision between a car and a train, the critical question was: Is the defendant railroad permitted to introduce into evidence the transcript of a question and answer session made two days after the accident between …
Some Problems With "Origins", Stephen A. Conrad
Some Problems With "Origins", Stephen A. Conrad
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Law Of Evidence And The Idea Of Progress, Michael S. Ariens
The Law Of Evidence And The Idea Of Progress, Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
To ask the question, “Does evidence law matter?,” is often to assume that some sets or groups of people believe it is important while others are challenging that view. However, another assumption regarding the nature of this question is possible—that the question is asked because legal academics believe that evidence law both does and does not matter, and that those academics also believe that these are irreconcilable beliefs. What is of particular interest is how legal academics reached this point and why they believe that evidence law both does and does not matter.
Consideration of these aspects of evidence law …
On The Road Of Good Intentions: Justice Brennan And The Religion Clauses, Michael S. Ariens
On The Road Of Good Intentions: Justice Brennan And The Religion Clauses, Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
Associate Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan took the oath of office on October 16, 1956. At the time of Justice Brennan’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the Court had decided only a few cases involving the religion clauses of the first amendment, and judicial interpretation of the religion clauses had been sparing.
In the thirty-four years of Justice Brennan’s tenure, the Court worked several revolutions in religion clause jurisprudence—revolutions guided by a sense of the needs of a changing society. Justice Brennan was one of several architects of a new order in establishment clause interpretation, and was the architect …
Regionalism And American Legal History: The Southern Experience, James W. Ely, Jr., David J. Bodenhamer
Regionalism And American Legal History: The Southern Experience, James W. Ely, Jr., David J. Bodenhamer
Vanderbilt Law Review
Commentators surprisingly have failed to focus on the influence of regionalism in the development of American law. To be sure, numerous books and articles examine state law and its local application or explore the treatment by several states of a particular legal concept or category of laws. But attempts to define regional attitudes toward law or to analyze regional differences in legal practice are almost nonexistent. So foreign has the topic of regionalism been to scholarship in American legal history that Lawrence Friedman's acclaimed synthesis, A History of American Law,' contains no discussion of regionalism or its close relative,sectionalism. Even …
The Arkansas Colonial Legal System, 1686-1766, Morris S. Arnold
The Arkansas Colonial Legal System, 1686-1766, Morris S. Arnold
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
An Early Opinion Of An Arkansas Trial Court, Morris S. Arnold
An Early Opinion Of An Arkansas Trial Court, Morris S. Arnold
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Property As Government In Eighteenth-Century America: The Case Of New York City, Hendrik Hartog
Property As Government In Eighteenth-Century America: The Case Of New York City, Hendrik Hartog
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
A Historical Inquiry Into The Right To Trial By Jury In Complex Civil Litigation, Morris S. Arnold
A Historical Inquiry Into The Right To Trial By Jury In Complex Civil Litigation, Morris S. Arnold
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Because All The World Was Not New York City: Governance, Property Rights, And The State In The Changing Definition Of A Corporation, 1730-1860, Hendrik Hartog
Because All The World Was Not New York City: Governance, Property Rights, And The State In The Changing Definition Of A Corporation, 1730-1860, Hendrik Hartog
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Law And Social Order In The United States, James W. Ely, Jr.
Law And Social Order In The United States, James W. Ely, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
No student of American legal history can overlook the significant work of J. Willard Hurst, who has been described as "the foremost historian of American law."' A prolific author, Hurst has been concerned primarily with the relationship between law and the economic system. His most recent volume, Law and Social Order in the United States, is an important contribution to the rapidly growing literature in the legal history field. Based upon the Carl L.Becker Lectures that Hurst delivered at Cornell University in 1976, the book ranges broadly over America's nineteenth- and twentieth-century legal past, with emphasis upon law and social …
Book Review. The Transformation Of American Law, 1780-1860 By Morton J. Horwitz, Morris S. Arnold
Book Review. The Transformation Of American Law, 1780-1860 By Morton J. Horwitz, Morris S. Arnold
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. The Growth Of American Law: The Law Makers By James Willard Hurst, Frank Edward Horack Jr.
Book Review. The Growth Of American Law: The Law Makers By James Willard Hurst, Frank Edward Horack Jr.
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Readings In American Legal History By M. D. Howe, John P. Frank
Book Review. Readings In American Legal History By M. D. Howe, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Pound, R., The Formative Era Of American Law, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Pound, R., The Formative Era Of American Law, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.