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Inventing American Exceptionalism
Amalia D. Kessler
其他書名
The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877
出版Yale University Press, 2017-01-01
主題Law / Legal HistoryHistory / United States / 19th CenturyLaw / GeneralLaw / Civil ProcedureLaw / Criminal ProcedureLaw / Jurisprudence
ISBN03001980789780300198072
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=b-vUDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A highly engaging account of the developments--not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural--that gave rise to Americans' distinctively lawyer-driven legal culture

When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial--dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances--that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and sources--and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe)--the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity.