The Oxford Companion to American Law provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to the main lines of American law, including the institutions, doctrines, concepts, people, events, and cases that have given and continue to give shape to it.

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history.This collection, designed to be the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covers the entire chronological span of Constitutional history.Tracing the historical development of American constitutional thought, the Second Edition of this anthology presents the documents critical to constitutional development, including actual legal texts as well as the reactions of prominent legal minds.