In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means
We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life’s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentie
From a May 1995 conference at New York University, 13 essays celebrate the work of legal and constitutional historian Reid and his integration of the subject into law education for four decades. Some
