| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.3

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The History of Ohio Law

Edited by Michael Les Benedict and John F. Winkler

(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 2 vols. Pp. xii, 946. Notes, indexes. $75.00.)

The History of Ohio Law is an ambitious two-volume work containing an incredibly diverse collection of twenty-two essays. It is the first in what promises to be an extremely useful series, edited by Paul Finkelman, on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.

The aim of this book, and of the series as a whole, is to fill what editors Michael Benedict and John Winkler see as the "empty space" in the academic library regarding state-specific legal studies. The History of Ohio Law introduces the general reader to the breadth of Ohio's legal history through essays covering topics such as state constitutional history, Ohio's judiciary, and the intersections between race, gender, and the law. The role of Ohio's judges, both in state and national circles, and the connections between the judicial branch and the other two branches of the government receive frequent mention. No mere list of subject headings, however, can capture the nuance or essence of the volumes' focus on integrating Ohio's legal history into a social and cultural context—both in Ohio and the nation as a whole. In his forward, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer contends that through these essays readers will see Ohio as a "microcosm of America" (p. xi). The celebration of Ohio's role in American history is an underlying theme in most of the essays.

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