American Family Law: HiStory-WhoStory

The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia

Railroads and American Law

Repairing Family Law

Scholars in the burgeoning field of law and emotion have paid surprisingly little attention to family law. This gap is unfortunate because law and emotion has the potential to bring great insights to family law. This Article begins to fill this void-and inaugurate a larger debate about the central role of emotion in family law-by exploring the intriguing and significant consequences for the reg...

Reciprocal Exchange as the Basis for Recognition of Law: Examples from American History

The literature of American legal history is primarily a history of federal and state governments, creating the false impression that these governments have produced and enforced all relevant law. Indeed, there seems to be a widely held belief that law and order could not exist in a society without the organized authoritarian institutions of the state. But while law can be imposed from above by ...

5 American law ( United States ) *

1 The role of law in the United States Understanding US law is impossible without first understanding the role law plays both in its political system and in the consciousness of its citizens. Law is ubiquitous in general culture: literature, cinema, television (Raynaud and Zoller, 2001). On first impression, its status appears paradoxical. On the one hand, there is an almost mystical faith in t...