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This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs.

Two great themes dominate the book: (1) the origins, development, and pervasive influence of the jury system and judge/jury relations across eight centuries of Anglo-American civil and criminal justice; and (2) the law/equity division, from the emergence of the Court of Chancery in the fourteenth century down through equity's conquest of common law in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The chapters on criminal justice explore the history of pretrial investigation, policing, trial, and sentencing, as well as the movement in modern times to nonjury resolution through plea bargaining. Considerable attention is devoted to distinctively American developments, such as the elective bench, and the influence of race relations on the law of criminal procedure.

Other major subjects of this book include the development of the legal profession, from the serjeants, barristers, and attorneys of medieval times down to the transnational megafirms of twenty-first century practice; the literature of the law, especially law reports and treatises, from the Year Books and Bracton down to the American state reports and today's electronic services; and legal education, from the founding of the Inns of Court to the emergence and growth of university law schools in the United States.

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• Part I The English Common Law: Medieval Origins
• Chapter 1 Criminal Procedure and the Origins of the Jury System
• Chapter 2 Civil Justice
• Chapter 3 Shaping the Legal Professions: Bar, Bench, and Books
• Part II The Second English Legal System
• Chapter 4 The Transformation of the Juries and the Reconstruction of Criminal and Civil Justice
• Chapter 5 The Rise of Equity
• Chapter 6 The Maturation and Reform of Chancery, and the Fusion of Law and Equity
• Part III Reshaping the Jury
• Chapter 7 Controlling, Reviewing, and Suppressing Juries in England
• Chapter 8 Judge/Jury Relations in America
• Part IV Criminal Justice
• Chapter 9 Rebuilding Criminal Procedure: The Marian Pretrial and the Altercation Trial
• Chapter 10 The Growth of Defensive Safeguard
• Chapter 11 American Criminal Justice
• Part V American Initiatives in the Common Law
• Chapter 12 Legal Literature
• Chapter 13 The Reception and Recasting of English Law
• Chapter 14 Legal Education
• Chapter 15 The Legal Profession
• Illustrated Timeline
• Table of English Regnal Years
• Image Acknowledgments
• Text Acknowledgments
• Index