| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Paul Finkelman and Martin J. Hershock, eds. The History of Michigan Law. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. 304. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $49.95.

This book presents twelve essays on the legal traditions of a state that is, as the introduction notes, unlike its midwestern neighbors. Though the title implies that the volume might be a dry summary of important decisions couched in dense legal jargon, readers will find that this is not the case. Organized in roughly chronological order, the essays range across many subjects, including labor law, constitutional changes, gender equity, civil rights, the tensions involved in adapting to free-market capitalism, the legacy of the Northwest Ordinance, the abolition of the death penalty, temperance, the use and misuse of the environment, and the complex underpinnings and transformation of Michigan's legal-education system. Each essay offers a concise survey of the historical contexts that shaped the major legal and legislative decisions involved in the discussion.

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