The Cambridge History of Law in America
Authors: Christopher L. Tomlins, Michael Grossberg
In 2001, the American Bar Foundation pledged resources to support the production of a multi-volume, multi-contributor history of law in America to be published by Cambridge University Press. The project had been designed and directed by Tomlins in collaboration with Michael Grossberg of Indiana University. Commissioned by Cambridge University Press in 1999 and formally adopted by the ABF and the Press in 2001, the project involves some sixty scholars in the creation of a major three-volume history of American law. The first volume (“Early America”) is devoted primarily to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the second (“The Long Nineteenth Century”) to the period from the creation of the Republic (1789) to the end of the First World War; the third (“The Twentieth Century”) to the period from the 1920s to the end of the century and beyond.
All three volumes are now available both individually and as a three-volume set.