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Title The Oxford companion to American law / editor in chief, Kermit L. Hall ; editors, David S. Clark [and others]
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 912 pages)
Summary This book is a one-volume, alphabetically arranged, encyclopedia introducing the main lines of American law, from the institutions, people, events, and cases to the doctrines and concepts. Produced under the editorship of a board of five noted scholars it comprises approximately 500 entries, each written by an expert in the field. The book targets a broad and diverse audience, one that ranges from students studying American law to lawyers or judges actively involved in the practice of law. In subject matter the book deals with the development of positive, common, and constitutional law in the US (as well as arbitration, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution), and the related institutions that support them. The Companion stresses concepts more than cases and people as primary subjects, preferring, except for the most iconic cases and the most storied figures of American law, to discuss each within conceptual entries. Although many of the entries must, of necessity, address technical matters, the Companion does not seek to provide a technical analysis of the law, either as a matter of history or current practice
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Law -- United States -- Encyclopedias
Law -- United States.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law
United States
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Hall, Kermit L., 1944-2006, editor.
Clark, David Scott, 1944- editor.
ISBN 9780199891108
0199891109
9780199771165
0199771162