(Source: Rowman & Littlefield)
Rowman & Littlefield has
published a new book on the history of litigation in the US.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Americans have long been
identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits.
In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America’s
most preeminent legal historians, charts the history of civil litigation from
the seventeenth century to the present, using key cases pursued by ordinary
people to illustrate how the civil courts have been a battlefront to contest
the boundaries of permissible personal conduct in times of social and political
change. Using representative case studies from each period—from defamation
suits in seventeenth-century America to recent civil rights and gender
discrimination lawsuits, Hoffer’s concise and accessible history shows how
litigation reflects the lives and values of ordinary Americans.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Charles Hoffer is
Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia and
coeditor of the prizewinning series Landmark Law Cases and American Society.
His nearly dozen books include The Supreme Court: An Essential History, The
Historians' Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time, Brave New
World: A History of Early America, Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos
That Reshaped America, The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History, Roe
v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History, and The
Treason Trials of Aaron Burr.
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