Kessler, Amalia D., <br/><br/>
Inventing American exceptionalism / 
Amalia D. Kessler. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations (black and white). 
 - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference .
 - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference. .
<br/><br/> Previously issued in print: 2017. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> It is widely accepted that American procedure - and indeed American legal culture as a whole - are adversarial (and distinctively so). Yet, precisely because this assumption is so deep-rooted, we have no history of how American adversarialism arose. This text provides such a history. It shows that the United States long employed not only lawyer-empowering adversarial procedure, but also various forms of more judge-dependent, quasi-inquisitorial procedure - including the equity tradition borrowed from England and, to a lesser extent, conciliation courts transplanted from continental Europe. 
<br/><br/> Specialized. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300224849  No price 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adversary system (Law)--United States.<br/>Law--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Law.<br/>United States of America, USA.<br/>19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.<br/>History of the Americas.<br/>History.<br/>Legal history.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF366.A75 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>347.73