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Charles Rembar, The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. Pp. 447. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Steven A. Meyerowitz
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American Bar Foundation Research Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Spring 1981 , pp. 579 - 581
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1981 

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References

1. Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973).Google Scholar

2. Morton Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977).Google Scholar

3. One minor frustration with The Law of the Land: the appendix contains only 72 footnotes for the whole book, leaving much uncited. This compares unfavorably with, for example, 141 footnotes in the first brief chapter in Friedman's A History of American Law.Google Scholar