American Legal History 1776-1865

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course is designed to consider the development of American law from the time of the founding of the United States to the beginning of the period of Reconstruction. It will not be a march through the evolution of legal doctrines, though we will discuss the development of various doctrines. "Law", for our purposes, is broadly defined to include, among other things, the structure of the government that was created after the Revolution, statutory…