John Phillip Reid is one of the most highly regarded historians of
law as it was practiced on the state level in the nascent United
States. He is not just the recipient of numerous honors for his
scholarship but the type of historian after whom such accolades are
named: the John Phillip Reid Award is given annually by the
American Society for Legal History to the author of the best book
by a mid-career or senior scholar. Legitimating the Law is the
third installment in a trilogy of books by Reid that seek to extend
our knowledge about the judicial history of the early republic by
recounting the development of courts, laws, and legal theory in New
Hampshire. Here Reid turns his eye toward the professionalization
of law and the legitimization of legal practices in the Granite
State-customs and codes of professional conduct that would form the
basis of judiciaries in other states and that remain the
cornerstone of our legal system to this day throughout the US.
Legitimating the Law chronicles the struggle by which lawyers and
torchbearers of strong, centralized government sought to bring
standards of competence to New Hampshire through the
professionalization of the bench and the bar-ambitions that were
fought vigorously by both Jeffersonian legislators and
anti-Federalists in the private sector alike, but ultimately to no
avail.
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