Amalia D Kessler: 1 book
Inventing American Exceptionalism
The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
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...
