Seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. Taken together, the essays show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.

Sally E. Hadden (Editor)
SALLY E. HADDEN, an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University, is the author of Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas and coeditor ofThe Blackwell Companion to American Legal History.

Patricia Hagler Minter (Editor)
PATRICIA HAGLER MINTER, associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University is a coauthor of the 2003 edition of Out of Many Lives, Many Stories: Biographies in American History.