Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
ISBN-13:
9780300222258
ISBN-10:
0300222254
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Amalia D. Kessler
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Paperback
462 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Civil Procedure
,
Rules & Procedures
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780300222258
ISBN-10:
0300222254
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Amalia D. Kessler
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Paperback
462 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Civil Procedure
,
Rules & Procedures
,
Americas History
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Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) (ISBN-13: 9780300222258 and ISBN-10: 0300222254), written by authors
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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.
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.
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