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This is the first book to explore the broad influence of computers and television on the evolution of the US legal process.

• Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy Part I Chronological Overviews 5 1 Reconsidering the Seventeenth Century: Legal History in the Americas 7 Elizabeth Dale 2 What s Done and Undone: Colonial American Legal History, 1700 1775 26 Sally E. Hadden 3 1775 1815 46 Ellen Holmes Pearson 4 The Antebellum Era Through Civil War 67 Alfred L. Brophy 5 Beyond Classical Legal Thought: Law and Governance in Postbellum America, 1865 1920 86 Roman J. Hoyos 6 American Legal History, 1920 1970 105 Christopher W. Schmidt Part II Individuals and Groups 125 7 Native Americans 127 Christian McMillen 8 African Americans in Slavery 152 Thomas J. Davis 9 African Americans in Freedom 171 James Campbell 10 Women s Legal History 190 Felice Batlan 11 Families 209 David S. Tanenhaus 12 Who Belongs? Immigrants and the Law in American History 228 Allison Brownell Tirres 13 The Legal Profession 247 Mark E. Steiner Part III Subject Areas 267 14 Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor 269 Christine Desan 15 Law and the Economy in the United States, 1820 2000 289 Harwell Wells 16 Law and Labor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 308 Deborah Dinner 17 Siting the Legal History of Poverty: Below, Above, and Amidst 329 Felicia Kornbluh and Karen Tani 18 Taxes 349 Robin L. Einhorn 19 Law and the Administrative State 367 Joanna L. Grisinger 20 Law and Religion 387 Steven K. Green 21 Legal History and the Military 406 Elizabeth L. Hillman 22 Criminal Law and Justice in America 422 Elizabeth Dale 23 Intellectual Property 441 Steven Wilf Part IV Legal Thought 461 24 Law and Literature 463 Jeannine Marie DeLombard 25 Legal Thought from Blackstone to Kent and Story 484 Steven J. Macias 26 American Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 506 James D. Schmidt 27 Critical Legal Studies 524 John Henry Schlegel 28 The International Context: An Imperial Perspective on American Legal History 543 Clara Altman Index 562.
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A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century. Presents up-to-date research describing the key debates in American legal history Reflects the current state of American legal history research and points readers in the direction of future research Represents an ideal companion for graduate and law students seeking an introduction to the field, the key questions, and future research ideas.
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• Introduction: Robert Cover and Law, Judging, and Violence / Martha Minow
• 1. The Origins of Judicial Activism in the Protection of Minorities
• 2. The Uses of Jurisdictional Redundancy: Interest, Ideology, and Innovation
• 3. Nomos and Narrative
• 4. The Folktales of Justice: Tales of Jurisdiction
• 5. Violence and the Word
• 6. Obligation: A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order
• Coda: Your Law-Baseball Quiz
• Robert Cover on Law and Violence / Austin Sarat
• Meaning and Alternity / Michael Ryan

Essential writings of the leading scholar of law and violence.
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• 1. Introduction: homogeneous corporate governance cultures
• 2. Laying a foundation: why the board, why the statistics, and why diversification?
• 3. Enter legal regulation: quota and disclosure-based approaches
• 4. Norway's socio-legal journey: a qualitative study of boardroom diversity quotas
• 5. Lessons from Norway: successes and limitations of the quota model
• 6. Proxy disclosures under the US rule: a mixed-methods content analysis
• 7. Contextualizing the content analysis results: norms, expressive law, and reform possibilities
• 8. Conclusions: ongoing inquiry into quotas and disclosure regimes as regulatory models.
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The lack of gender parity in the governance of business corporations has ignited a heated global debate, leading policymakers to wrestle with difficult questions that lie at the intersection of market activity and social identity politics. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and documentary content analysis of corporate securities filings in the United States, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity empirically investigates two distinct regulatory models designed to address diversity in the boardroom: quotas and disclosure. The author's study of the Norwegian quota model demonstrates the important role diversity can play in enhancing the quality of corporate governance, while also revealing the challenges diversity mandates pose. His analysis of the US regime shows how a disclosure model has led corporations to establish a vocabulary of 'diversity'. At the same time, the analysis highlights the downsides of affording firms too much discretion in defining that concept. This book deepens ongoing policy conversations and offers new insights into the role law can play in reshaping the gendered dynamics of corporate governance cultures.
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