Columbus School of Law

 History of Modern American Law (2 hrs.)

Perspective on Law & the Legal System > Advanced Courses

The course considers 19th-century criminal and family law, foundations of modern labor law, origins of the regulatory state, development of modern tort and contract law, jurisprudential trends and the New Deal crisis, civil rights movement, recent constitutional developments, and interdisciplinary movements in law schools today. This is an exam course. Mr. Watson.