Contents:
V. 3. The twentieth century and after (1920-);
Editor's preface;
1. Law and state, 1920-2000 : institutional growth and structural change / Daniel R. Ernst;
2. Legal theory and legal education, 1920-2000 / William W. Fisher III;
3. The American legal profession, 1870-2000 / Robert W. Gordon;
4. The courts, Federalism and the Federal Constitution, 1920-2000 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr.;
5. The litigation revolution / Lawrence M. Friedman;
6. Criminal justice in the United States / Michael Willrich;
7. Law and medicine / Leslie J. Reagan;
8. The Great Depression and the New Deal / Barry Cushman;
9. Labor's welfare state : defining workers, constructing citizens / Eileen Boris;
10. Poverty law and income support : from the progressive era to the war on welfare / Gwendolyn Mink, Samantha Ann Majic and Leandra Zarnow;
11. The rights revolution in the twentieth century / Mark Tushnet;
12. Race and rights / Michael J. Klarman;
13. Heterosexuality as a legal regime / Margot Canaday;
14. Law and the environment / Betsy Mendelsohn;
15. Agriculture and the state, 1789-2000 / Victoria Saker Woeste;
16. Law and economic change during the short twentieth century / John Henry Schlegel
17. The corporate economy : ideologies of regulation and antitrust, 1920-2000 / Gregory A. Mark;
18. Law and commercial popular culture in the twentieth-century United States / Norman L. Rosenberg;
19. Making law, making war, making America / Mary L. Dudziak;
20. Law, lawyers and empire / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth;
Bibliographic essays;
Notes on contributors;
Index.