This book examines our basic understandings of privacy as they are challenged by modern technology, changing social mores, and evolving legal understandings that both reflect and reinforce underlying changes in…

Through a series of historical analyses, Friedman explores the relationship between the legal system and the development of modern science and technology.

Modern technology has radically and irretrievably altered our sense of identity and hence our social, political and legal life, argues Lawrence M. Friedman. In traditional societies, relationships and identities were…

This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All have been influenced by the prolific legal historian, legal sociologist and scholar…

A classic study of the social and economic realities of trade law, told through case studies and rich historical analysis. Comparing contract cases and legislation over three discrete historical periods…

This is the standard reader in American law and constitutional development. The selections demonstrate that the legal order, once defined by society, helps in molding the various forces of the…

The Massachusetts State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state’s governing charter. It begins with an overview of Massachusetts’s constitutional history, and then provides an in-depth…

Examines the constitutional relationship between Congress and the President in the post-September 11 world and argues that Congress should exercise its legitimate authority in guiding United States policy. This book…