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The Transformation of the Common Law: Modernism, History, and the Turn to Process

The Transformation of the Common Law: Modernism, History, and the Turn to Process

Description

Professor Kunal Parker , of University of Miami School of Law, presented a working draft of his work The Transformation of the Common Law: Modernism, History, and the Turn to Process. This work “traces the transformation of American common law thinking between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”

Presenter

From University of Miami School of Law, “Kunal Parker is a Professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in History from Princeton University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from Harvard University.

Kunal Parker has recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790 - 1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American Legal History, Estates and Trusts, Immigration and Nationality Law, and Property.

Workshop Date

10-18-2017

Keywords

FIU Law, FIU Law Faculty Workshop Series, Kunal Parker, Transformation of the Common Law

Disciplines

Common Law | Law

The Transformation of the Common Law: Modernism, History, and the Turn to Process

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