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Apr 19, 2024
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LAW 2903 - Legal History
This course explores the evolution of Anglo-American legal institutions and the way changes in legal institutions and doctrines have affected social and political life. The subjects and chronological focus of the course depend upon the interests of the instructor and may include historical treatment of the writ system; the development of bench, bar and jury; colonial law; law of the Constitutional period; Antebellum perspectives about the relation of law to economic development; judicial involvement in the slavery controversy; family law; criminal law; the development of contract and tort law; 19th- and 20th-century jurisprudential perspectives, including legal formalism, legal realism, legal process and legal positivism; and aspects of the involvement of courts in civil liberties disputes. Students familiarize themselves with original source materials and also with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches taken by professional and legal historians. The course also considers the uses of legal history for the modern lawyer.
Credits: 2 or 3
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