LAWS9922 · Law

American Legal History

Boston College Law School

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Mary Bilder

Professor, Founders Chair, Law Faculty

5 evaluations for this course

Instructor: 4.9
Course: 4.8

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Mary Bilder

Professor, Founders Chair, Law Faculty

5 evaluations for this course

Instructor: 4.9
Course: 4.8

About this course

This course surveys major developments of American legal culture, legal institutions, and the Constitution: (1) the seventeenth-century and British colonization (founding ideas of law and legal institutions; regulation of the family; the witchcraft trials; indentured servitude and slavery; property law; and legal practice and education); (2) the founding period (the legal formation of the United States); (3) the early nineteenth-century and Civil War (antebellum legal culture; the corporation; the Cherokees cases; antislavery and the Fugitive Slave Law; the Civil War and emancipation); (4) Reconstruction to the 21st century (women's suffrage; race relations; labor, property, and the corporation; legal education and the legal profession; the rising importance of rights; Reagan conservatism).

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OrganizationHow well the course was organized: 4.89 / 5
ChallengeHow intellectually challenging students found it: 4.69 / 5
AttendanceHow necessary attendance was: 4.77 / 5
AssignmentsHow helpful assignments were: 4.74 / 5

Weekly effort: ~5 hours

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Evaluation history 5 terms

All available terms for LAWS9922. Numerical averages use the five-point scale.
Term	Evaluations	Course rating	Instructor rating
Fall 2024	1	4.8	4.9
Fall 2023	1	4.8	4.9
Fall 2022	1	4.8	5.0
Spring 2022	1	4.8	5.0
Fall 2020	1	4.7	4.9