Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History

by David M. Rabban

Book Overview

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"