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An Introduction
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This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in Ame...
Law, Authority, and Culture
In this imaginative exploration of modern legal culture, Lawrence Friedman addresses how the contemporary idea of individual rights has altered the le...
A Study in History and Context
Lawrence M. Friedman's newest book explores the sheer phenomenon of a near-global arc favoring the idea, and sometimes even the practice, of human rig...
Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. ...
A Handbook of Legal and Social Indicators for Comparative Study
A Short History
Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genet...
American law in the twentieth century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the c...
Families, Individuals, and the Law
Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexitie...
A Social Science Perspective
A Socio-legal Reader
This text is designed for law students and for courses in legal studies programs. The reader deals in depth with the relationship between the legal sy...
A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe?
The European Human Rights Culture – A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe? analyses the political term “European Human Rights Culture”,...
A Social and Economic Case Study
Law as Public Spectacle
The trial of O. J. Simpson was a sensation, avidly followed by millions of people, but it was also, in a sense, nothing new. One hundred years earlier...
Legal and Social Controls Over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy
This book investigates the elements that have developed as part of the definition of propriety and good behavior, and how the law has acted to protect...
A Critique and a Proposal
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Law and the Family in 20th Century America
A comprehensive social history of families and family law in twentieth-century America Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentiet...
Separation of Powers and the War on Terror
Examining the constitutional relationship between Congress and the President in the post-September 11 world, this book focuses on the constitutional a...
Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910
Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910...
Frank May hates trouble, as a lawyer and as a guy. But it likes him just fine. For someone who practices wills and trusts law because it lies far from...
Frank May practices law, but he gets by just doing the safe, bland kind-writing wills, forming partnerships, processing papers. Everything far from th...
"A late night call from frantic client Barney drags Frank into the world he'd carefully avoided. Barney's wannabe actress wife is dead. The cops think...
A Multiple Regression Analysis
A Century of Frustration
The Enactment of Medicare
Section 23, Housing and the Poor
Contracts in general. The impact of large scale business enterprise upon contract