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For law students and lawyers to successfully understand and practice law in the U.S., recognition of the wider context and culture which informs the law is essential. Simply learning the legal rules and procedures in isolation is not enough without an appreciation of the culture that produced them.

This book provides the reader with an understandable introduction to the ways in which U.S. law reflects its culture and each chapter begins with questions to guide the reader, and concludes with questions for review, challenge and further understanding. Kirk W. Junker explores cultural...

For law students and lawyers to successfully understand and practice law in the U.S., recognition of the wider context and culture which informs the law is essential. Simply learning the legal rules and procedures in isolation is not enough without an appreciation of the culture that produced them.

This book provides the reader with an understandable introduction to the ways in which U.S. law reflects its culture and each chapter begins with questions to guide the reader, and concludes with questions for review, challenge and further understanding. Kirk W. Junker explores...

The landmark work that influenced the development of modern American law. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1881. xvi, 422 pp. This landmark work, which, according to Winfield, “blew fresh air into lawyer’s minds encrusted with Blackstone and Kent,” was a decisive influence on sociological jurisprudence, legal realism and the general development of American law in the twentieth century. (Percy H. Winfield, Chief Sources of Anglo-American Law 38.)

Rejecting the reigning positivist ethos of the nineteenth century, Holmes proposed that the law was not...

The first English treatise on the law of infants. Originally published: London: Printed by J. Nutt, 1712. viii (iii-viii new Introduction), [24], 380, [27] pp. With a New Introduction by Morris L. Cohen [1927-2010], Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Reprint of the second edition. The Infants Lawyer was the first English treatise on the subject. Its twenty comprehensive chapters, organized by topic, consist of a digest of case and statute law with explanatory comments. It was first published in 1697. A much expanded second edition was issued in 1712; it was reissued without...