Contents

Editorial Staff
In This Issue		v

Articles

Creating Order in the Wilderness: Transplanting the English Law to Rupert's Land, 1835–51
	H. Robert Baker		209
Forum. Constructing Patriarchy: The Development of Interspousal Custody Law in England
De Manneville v. De Manneville: Rethinking the Birth of Custody Law under Patriarchy
	Danaya C. Wright		247
	Comments
	Who Determines Children's Best Interests?
		Michael Grossberg	309
	Child Custody and the Decline of Women's Rights
		Eileen Spring	315
	Response
	On Judicial Agency and the Best Interests Test
		Danaya C. Wright	319
Field Review
Emerging from the Margins of Historical Consciousness: Chinese Immigrants and the History of American Law
	Richard P. Cole and Gabriel J. Chin		325
Notes and Commentary
A Lawyer's Defense of a Wine Merchant against a Carpenter's Deposition: A Story about Friendship and Betrayal
	Santo L. Aricò		360
The LHR Electronic Resource Page
Changing Our Minds: Legal History Meets the World Wide Web
	Bernard J. Hibbitts		247

Book Reviews

Imagining the Law: Common Law and the Foundations of the American Legal System—Norman Cantor
	reviewed by Donald R. Kelley	389
Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens—David Cohen
	reviewed by Ian Morris	391
God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation—Timothy Gorringe
	reviewed by Rachel Fulton	393
Legislation and Justice—Antonio Padoa-Schioppa, editor
	reviewed by Pietro Costa	396
A History of Private Law in Europe—Franz Wieacker
	reviewed by James Q. Whitman	400
The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet—Rebecca Redwood French
	reviewed by Geoffrey MacCormack	402
Ebu's-su'ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition—Colin Imber
	reviewed by Wael B. Hallaq	404
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism—Mahmood Mamdani
	reviewed by Ralph A. Austen	406
Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634–1776—David R. Owen and Michael C. Tolley
	reviewed by Carl Ubbelohde	408
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution—Jack Rakove
	reviewed by Stephen A. Siegel	410
The Transformation of Authorship in America—Grantland S. Rice
	eviewed by Mark Schmeller	413
The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice—Christopher P. Manfredi
	reviewed by David S. Tanenhaus	415
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion—Edward J. Larson
	reviewed by Emily S. Epstein	417

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