Remaking Custom
History has largely forgotten the writings, both public and private, of early nineteenth-century America’s legal scholars. However, Ellen Holmes Pearson argues that the observers from this era had a unique perspective on the young nation and the directions in which its legal culture might go.
Remaking Custom draws on the law lectures, treatises, speeches, and papers of the early republic’s legal sc...
History has largely forgotten the writings, both public and private, of early nineteenth-century America’s legal scholars. However, Ellen Holmes Pearson argues that the observers from this era had a unique perspective on the young nation and the directions in which its legal culture might go.
Remaking Custom draws on the law lectures, treatises, speeches, and papers of the early republic’s legal sc...
