Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution--that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances--shaped the legal development of the colonial world.
Focusing on practices rather than doctrines, Bilder describes how the pragmatic and...
Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the ...
Former students of Morton Horwitz re-examine legal history from America's colonial era to the late 20th century. They explore how legal doctrine, thought & practice are shaped by the interests of the powerful, as well as by the ideas of lawyers, politicians & others.
Former students of Morton Horwitz re-examine legal history from America's colonial era to the late 20th century. They explore how legal doctrine, thou...
