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Condition: New. In the aftermath of the Civil War, legislators in the Nebraska Territory grappled with the responsibility of forming a state government as well as with the larger issues of reconstructing the Union, protecting civil rights, and redefining federal-state rela.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Author inscribed/signed on title page - association copy. Light wear to covers and DJ. Content pages are clean and unmarked. Inscribed by Author(s).

Gless, Alan G.; Hendry, John V. The History of Nebraska Law. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1st ed. 2008. xiii, 318 pp., illustrations, 1 map. Original blue cloth with stamped spine and front cover. Fine, in a fine dust jacket. $60. * Contents: Frontier framers: constitution making in nineteenth-century Nebraska / Thomas H. Cox; Nebraska's criminal codes / Alan G. Gless; The legal and judicial career of Francis "Frank" Hamer: pioneer lawyer, district court judge, and Nebraska Supreme Court justice / Mark R. Ellis; Land use law and livestock production / Anthony B. Schutz; An overview of Nebraska water law / Alan G. Gless and Peter J. Longo; Foreclosure moratoria and farm credit mediation: Nebraska's legal response to two agricultural crises / J. David Aiken; Nebraska's unicameral legislature / James W. Hewitt; Accidental jurists: the Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations / John M. Gradwohl; Pioneers in interdisciplinary legal education: a history of the UNL law and psychology program / Brian H. Bornstein, Richard L. Wiener, and Evelyn M. Maeder; Nebraska Native American legal history: an overview / Mark R. Scherer; Standing Bear: a long walk for liberty, a firm step for justice / Charles E. Wright; Wounded Knee / Tim A. Garrison and Warren K. Urbom; The first women of Nebraska law / Susan I. Strong; Meyer v. Nebraska / William G. Ross; Roscoe Pound: arguably Nebraska's single greatest contribution to American legal history / Richard E. Shugrue and Alan G. Gless. "Much of Nebraska law reflects mainstream American law, yet Nebraskans also have been open to experiment and innovation. The state revamped the legislative process by establishing the nation's only unicameral legislature and pioneered public employment collective bargaining and dispute resolution through its industrial relations commission and its relaxation of strict separation of powers. These seemingly contradictory trends, however, are but differing expressions of a single underlying principle inscribed in the state's motto: "Equality Before the Law." (Dust Jacket).