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It Makes Nothing Happen: Reasons for Studying the History of Law

Elizabeth Dale

University of Florida, Gainesville, edale{at}history.ufl.edu

In place of the idea that legal history should search for a new grand narrative of law, written to persuade lawyers and judges and change the world, this article suggests that legal historians focus their attention on writing and teaching more particularized histories targeting a popular audience.

Key Words: law and history • constitutional history • civil rights • originalism • microhistory • Reagan Revolution

Law, Culture and the Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 1, 3-10 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1743872108096860
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