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Legal History

Cantor, Norman F.  Imagining the Law: Common Law and the Foundations of the American
 Legal System.  New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Carrington, Paul D.  Stewards of Democracy: Law as a Public Profession.  Boulder: Westview
 Press, 1999.
   
Chase, Anthony.  Law and History: The Evolution of the American Legal System.  New
 York: New Press (distributed by W.W. Norton), 1997.

Coquillette, Daniel R.  The Anglo-American Legal Heritage: Introductory Materials.  Durham:
 Carolina Academic Press, 1999.  
 
Currie, David P.  The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period 1789 - 1801. Chicago:
 University of Chicago Press, 1997.    

Duxbury, Neil.  Patterns of American Jurisprudence.  New York: Oxford University Press,
 1995.    

Friedman, Lawrence M.  A History of American Law. 2d ed. New York: Simon & Schuster,
 1985.    

Gilmore, Grant.  The Ages of American Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.  
 
Hall, Kermit L.  The Magic Mirror: Law in American History. New York: Oxford University
 Press, 1989.    

Hoffer, Peter C.  Law and People in Colonial America. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
 University Press, 1998.   
 
Knight, Alfred H.  The Life of the Law: The People and Cases That Have Shaped Our
 Society, from King Alfred to Rodney King.  New York: Crown Publishers, 1996.    

White, G. Edward.  Intervention and Detachment:  Essays in Legal History and
 Jurisprudence.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.