American Law: An Introduction

Lawrence M. Friedman is Emeritus Professor at Stanford University School of Law. He has been the leading expositor of the history of American law to a global audience of lawyers and lay people alike. Professor Friedman is particularly well known for treating legal history as a branch of general social history. From his award-winning History of American Law (1973), to his American Law in the 20th Century (2003), his canonical works have become classic textbooks in legal and undergraduate education.

Grant M. Hayden is the Richard R. Lee Jr. Endowed Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. He writes and teaches in the areas of labor law, voting rights, legislation, administrative law, and corporate governance, with articles published in the Michigan, California, Vanderbilt, Florida, and North Carolina Law Reviews, among others. He is also the co-author of Reconstructing the Corporation: From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Labor Relations Law: Cases and Materials Fourteenth Edition (Carolina Academic Press, 2021).