David M. Rabban is Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Rabban is the author of Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the 1998 Morris D. Forkosch Prize presented by the Journal of the History of Ideas and the 1998 Eli M. Oboler Award of the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Roundtable.
Introduction: the historical study of law in the United States
Part I. The European Background: 1. The historical nineteenth century
2. German legal scholarship
3. English legal scholarship: Sir Henry Maine
Part II. The Historical Turn in American Legal Scholarship: 4. Henry Adams and his students: the origins of professional legal history in America
5. Melville M. Bigelow: from the history of Norman Procedure to protorealism
6. Holmes the historian
7. Thayer on the history of evidence
8. Ames on the history of the common law
9. The history of American constitutional law
10. The historical school of American jurisprudence
Part III. Maitland, Pound, and Pound's Successors: 11. Maitland: the maturity of English legal history
12. Pound: from historical to sociological jurisprudence
13. Pound's successors: twentieth-century interpretations of late nineteenth-century American legal thought.
