Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic

by Ellen Holmes Pearson

History has largely forgotten the writings, both public and private, of early nineteenth-century America's legal scholars. However, Ellen Holmes Pearson argues that the observers from this era had a unique perspective on the young nation and the directions in which its legal culture might go.

Remaking Custom draws on the law lectures, treatises, speeches, and papers of the early republic's legal scholars to examine the critical role...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930782
• ISBN13: 9780813930787
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher