American Comparative Law

This book details both the intellectual and social history of American legal rules, institutions, ideology, and culture that had a foreign component, either by import or after 1900 also by export from the United States to other legal systems. Combining legal history and comparative law, the volume proceeds chronologically through seven historical periods beginning with the religious and cultural diversity that existed in the 13 British colonies and its relevance for legal development to the twentieth century, which saw sustained scholarly comparative law.