Product Description: Hurst, James Willard.The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers.Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. xiii, 502 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Paperback. New. * The first study published after World War II and a pioneering work that devoted attention to several issues neglected in earlier histories, it surveys American law and its agencies and legislative bodies from roughly 1740-1940...read more

Product Description: The History of Corporate Law by the Foremost Legal Historian, James Willard Hurst This study, which is based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of Virginia Law School, explores the development of corporate law from the 1780s, a time when the special charter was the only form of incorporation, to the 1960s, a time when corporations were established exclusively through general incorporation statutes...read more

Product Description: Deals with the legal elements in the history of the system of moeny from 1774 to 1970, looking closely at the benefits and detriments that have accrued to that system from legal interventions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Originally published: [Madison]: The University of Wisconsin Press, [1982]. vii, 207 pp. The eminent legal scholar James Willard Hurst's sociological analysis of the relation between law and private business in relation to society at large Hurst argues that law and business support the same goals of efficiency and humanity, and examines their interrelationship toward that end in terms of ethical issues related to public policy, money supply, the impact of incremental change, inflation and deflation, monopoly and competition, and other economic factors...read more

Product Description: Hurst, James Willard. Law and Social Order in the United States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. 318 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Hardcover. New. The social history of law in the United States is defined and explored in this groundbreaking work...read more

Product Description: This collection of 6 essays provides a definitive analysis of the doctrinal development of the law of treason in the U.S., beginning with its English origins and concluding with the present day. The author traces the materials available for studying the law of treason and examines the modifications and changes that have evolved...read more