American Law and the Constitutional Order
American Law and the Constitutional Order

Author: Lawrence Meir Friedman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780674025271

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This is the standard reader in American law and constitutional development. The selections demonstrate that the legal order, once defined by society, helps in molding the various forces of the social life of that society. The essays cover the entire period of the American experience, from the colonies to postindustrial society. Additions to this enlarged edition include essays by Michael Parrish on the Depression and the New Deal; Abram Chayes on the role of the judge in public law litigation; David Vogel on social regulation; Harry N. Scheiber on doctrinal legacies and institutional innovations in the relation between law and the economy; and Lawrence M. Friedman on American legal history.

Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature
Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature

Author: Brook Thomas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521409704

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This book uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America.

Labor Visions and State Power
Labor Visions and State Power

Author: Victoria C. Hattam

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1400863082

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Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.