Sixty leading law historians present a full account of the history of American law.

Volume 1. Law, colonization, legitimation and the European background; 2. The law of Native Americans to 1815; 3. English settlement and local governance; 4. Legal communications and imperial governance: British North America and Spanish America compared; 5. Regionalism in early American law; 6. Penality and the colonial project: crime, punishment and the regulation of morals in early America; 7. Law, population, labor; 8. The fragmented laws of slavery in the colonial and revolutionary eras; 9. The transformation of domestic law; 10. Law and religion in colonial America; 11. The transformation of law and economy in early America; 12. Law and commerce, 1580-1815; 13. Law and the origins of the American Revolution; 14. Confederation and constitution; 15. The consolidation of the early Federal system, 1791-1812; 16. Magistrates, common law lawyers, legislators: the three legal systems of British America. Volume 2. 1. Law and the American state, from the Revolution to the Civil War: institutional growth and structural change; 2. Legal education and legal thought, 1790-1920; 3. The legal profession: from the Revolution to the Civil War; 4. The courts, 1790-1920; 5. Criminal justice in the United States, 1790-1920: a government of laws or men?; 6. Citizenship and immigration law, 1800-1924: resolutions of membership and territory; 7. Federal policy, Western movement and consequences for indigenous people, 1790-1920; 8. Marriage and domestic relations; 9. Slavery, antislavery, and the coming of the Civil War; 10. The civil war and reconstruction; 11. Law, personhood and citizenship in the long nineteenth century: the borders of belonging; 12. Law in popular culture, 1790-1920: the people and the law; 13. Law and religion, 1790-1920; 14. Legal innovation and market capitalism, 1790-1920; 15. Innovations in law and technology, 1790-1920; 16. The laws of industrial organization, 1870-1920; 17. The military in American legal history; 18. The United States and international affairs, 1789-1919; 19. Politics, state building, and the courts, 1870-1920. Volume 3. 1. Law and state, 1920-2000: institutional growth and structural change; 2. Legal theory and legal education, 1920-2000; 3. The American legal profession, 1870-2000; 4. The courst, Federalism and the Federal Constitution, 1920-2000; 5. The litigation revolution; 6. Criminal justice in the United States; 7. Law and medicine; 8. The Great Depression and the New Deal; 9. Labor's welfare state: defining workers, constructing citizens; 10. Poverty law and income support: from the progressive era to the war on welfare; 11. The rights revolution in the twentieth century; 12. Race and rights; 13. Heterosexuality as a legal regime; 14. Law and the environment; 15. Agriculture and the state, 1789-2000; 16. Law and economic change during the short twentieth century; 17. The corporate economy: ideologies of regulation and antitrust, 1920-2000; 18. Law and commercial popular culture in the twentieth-century United States; 19. Making law, making war, making America; 20. Law, lawyers and empire.