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The Growth of American Law
James Willard Hurst
其他書名
The Law Makers
出版The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2001
主題Law / Legal HistoryLaw / Government / GeneralPolitical Science / General
ISBN15847719419781584771944
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=v5PN8ZyPoC0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Hurst, James Willard. The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. xiii, 502 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-194-1. Cloth. $90. * The first contemporary history of the development of American law. A survey of the nature and success of the institution of American law and its agencies and legislative bodies from roughly 1740-1940. Considered "...a pioneering attempt to evaluate in broad terms the contributions to the development of American law made by its five chief formative agencies, the legislatures, the courts, the constitution-making process, the bar and the executive." William F. Fracher, Mo. L. Rev. 15:332-333. By the major legal historian whose writings led "... scholars from other disciplines... to look at law with a fresh and sometimes illuminating eye." Friedman, A History of American Law 595. An important work that has been highly regarded for its social perspective, Henry Steele Commager called it "...a pioneer work in this badly neglected field ...combine(s) scholarship, insight, and narrative and analytical skill in a striking manner." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 140.