Law and History: The Evolution of the American Legal System

A "strong, fluent, and valuable" (New York Law Journal) look at the evolution of the American legal system. Amid the current wave of skepticism about the American legal system, a leading critical legal theorist offers a daring new interpretation of the evolution of the law. Drawing on an impressive range of sources -- from classic texts by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels, to lectures by Norman Mailer and the critical legal studies theory of Morton Horwitz -- Law and History explores what the author calls "the intriguing mystery of how law and history fit together."