Course Description
American legal thought, institutions, and education, focusing on the impact of social, political, and economic forces on the legal system. The English background, colonial period, legal foundations of the new nation, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will write a research paper.
Athena Title
AMER LEGAL HISTORY
Semester Course Offered
Offered every odd-numbered year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Topical Outline
Syllabus