Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-524) and index.

c. 2550 BCE The oldest written will -- c. 2100 BCE The code of Ur-Nammu -- c. 1792 BCE The code of Hammurabi -- c. 1300 BCE The ten commandments -- 621 BCE The draconian code -- 594 BCE The laws of Solon -- c. 480 BCE The Gortyn code -- 450 BCE The twelve tables -- 399 BCE The trial of Socrates -- c. 180 The Talmud -- c. 250 The first law school -- c. 250 The Brehon laws of Ireland -- 529 The Justinian code -- 561 The Irish copyright war -- 624 The Tang code -- 652 The Quran -- 1140 Canon law and the Decretum Gratiani -- 1166 The Assize of Claredon -- c. 1200 Lex Mercatoria -- 1215 The Magna Carta -- 1275 The statutes of Westminster -- c. 1350 The Star Chamber -- 1431 The trial of Joan of Arc -- 1481 Littleton's Tenures -- 1492 The Alhambra Decree -- 1527 Les Termes de la Ley -- 1601 An act for the relief of the poor -- 1616 Compulsory education laws -- 1625 On the Law of War and Peace -- 1629 The first blue laws -- 1648 Peace of Westphalia -- 1651 Leviathan -- 1670 Bushel's case -- 1679 The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 -- 1685 The Black Code of Lois XIV -- 1692 The Salem Witchcraft Trials -- 1695 Lapse of the Licensing Act -- 1710 The Statute of Anne -- 1720 The Bubble Act -- 1735 The Trial of John Peter Zenger -- 1751 The Gin Act of 1751 -- 1761 The Writs of Assistance Case -- 1765 Blackstone's Commentaries -- 1787 The U.S. Constitution -- 1789 The Judiciary Act of 1789 -- 1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man -- 1790 America's first copyright law -- 1791 The Bill of Rights -- 1792 The Coinage Act of 1792 -- 1798 The Triple Assessment (Income tax) -- 1803 The power of judicial review -- 1804 The Napoleonic Code -- 1805 The superiority of possession -- 1819 The supremacy of federal law -- 1821 The supremacy of federal courts -- 1824 Congressional regulation of commerce -- 1824 Administering native peoples -- 1839 The Amistad -- 1842 Recognition of labor unions -- 1843 The M'Naghten Rule --1848 The Field Code -- 1854 The measure of contract damages -- 1857 The Dred Scott decision -- 1861 The government printing office -- 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation -- 1864 The Geneva Convention -- 1865 The abolition of slavery -- 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- 1868 Impeaching President Andrew Johnson -- 1868 The fourteenth amendment -- 1869 Prohibition of racial voter discrimination -- 1870 The law school revolution -- 1872 Law reporting and legal publishing -- 1873 Obscenity and the Comstock Act -- 1873 Admission of women to the bar -- 1876 Legal aide societies -- 1878 The Berne Convention -- 1881 The insanity defense -- 1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act -- 1883 The civil rights cases -- 1886 Equal protection rights -- 1887 The Interstate Commerce Act -- 1888 The Brazilian Slave Emancipation Act -- 1890 The right to privacy -- 1890 The Sherman Antitrust Act -- 1893 New Zealand women's suffrage -- 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but equal -- 1897 Corporate personhood and liability -- 1900 The German Civil Code -- 1901 The Cuban Constitution of 1901 -- 1908 Women in factories -- 1909 Congressional power to tax income -- 1910 The White-Slave Traffic Act -- 1910 Workers' Compensation Law -- 1911 Busting the trusts -- 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist fire -- 1913 The Federal Reserve Act -- 1914 The Exclusionary Rule -- 1914 The Clayton Antitrust Act -- 1915 The prohibition of illegal narcotics -- 1916 The Child Labor Act of 1916 -- 1916 The expansion of consumer rights -- 1918 Prohibition -- 1919 Women's right to vote -- 1919 Yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater -- 1920 New York State legalizes boxing -- 1921 The Chicago "Black Sox" Trial -- 1921 Censorship and the Hays Office -- 1921 The Emergency Quota Act -- 1925 The Scopes "Monkey" Trial -- 1926 The United States Code -- 1928 The danger zone in tort law -- 1928 Wiretaps -- 1933 Hitler's rise to power -- 1933 Wall Street regulation -- 1933 Censorship and Ulysses -- 1933 The repeal of prohibition -- 1934 The Federal Communications Act -- 1943 The Securities Change Act -- 1935 The National Labor Relations Act -- 1935 The Nuremberg Laws -- The Social Security Act -- 1936 The Federal Register -- 1937 FDR and the court-packing plan -- 1937 Cameras in the courts -- 1938 Rule 23 and modern class action -- 1938 The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act -- 1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act -- 1939 Militias and the Right to Bear Arms -- 1940 The Alien Registration Act -- 1941 Strict products liability -- 1941 California's Anti-Okie statute -- 1942 Internment of Japanese Americans -- 1944 The G.I. Bill -- 1945 The Nuremberg Trials -- 1946 Rent control -- 1946 The protection of trademarks -- 1947 Colonialism and postwar independence -- 1948 General agreement on tariffs and trade -- 1948 The U.N. convention on genocide -- 1948 The Hollywood ten -- 1948 Universal declaration of human rights -- 1948 The Displaced Persons Act -- 1951 Rejection of the Alien Registration Act -- 1951 The Rosenberg Trial -- 1951 The E.U. and the Treaty of Paris -- 1954 Brown v. Board of Education -- 1954 The Communist Control Act -- 1956 The Interstate Highway Act -- 1957 The limits on obscenity -- 1957 The Wolfenden Report and gay rights -- 1959 The European Court of human rights -- 1959 No man's land -- 1961 States and the exclusionary rule -- 1961 The Eichmann Trial -- 1963 The trial of Nelson Mandela -- 1963 The right to counsel in state court -- 1964 Limits on libel laws -- 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- 1965 The Voting Rights Act -- 1965 Conscientious objection -- 1965 The body and the right of privacy -- 1966 The Freedom of Information Act -- 1966 Miranda warnings -- 1967 Interracial marriage -- 1967 The Vietnam-Era draft laws -- 1969 No-fault divorce -- 1969 Free speech and threats of violence -- 1969 The fairness doctrine -- 1970 The National Environmental Policy Act -- 1970 The Count-Martial of William Calley Jr. -- 1970 Public health and cigarettes -- 1970 The RICO Act -- 1970 Baseball's reserve clause -- 1970 The Occupational Safety and Health Act -- 1970 The trial of Charles Manson -- 1971 Enfranchising eighteen-year-olds -- 1971 The Pentagon Papers -- 1971 Employment discrimination -- 1971 Court-ordered school busing -- 1972 Banning the death penalty -- 1972 The Equal Employment Opportunity Act -- 1972 The Equal Rights Amendment -- 1972 The trail of broken treaties -- 1973 The Endangered Species Act -- 1973 The first ban on gay marriage -- 1973 A new obscenity standard -- 1973 Roe v. Wade -- 1973 The War Powers Act of 1973 -- 1974 Presidential subpoena compliance -- 1975 Attorneys' fee awards -- 1975 Restrictions on involuntary commitment -- 1975 Racism and U.N. Resolution 3379 -- 1976 The Right to Die -- 1976 Health care and the duty to warn -- 1976 The Copyright Act of 1976 -- 1976 The death penalty returns -- 1976 Palimony -- 1977 Attorney advertising -- 1978 Affirmative action -- 1978 The FCC and filthy words -- 1978 The Son of Sam Law -- 1978 The entrapment defense -- 1983 The McMartin molestation case -- 1984 First mandatory seat-belt law -- 1984 Administrative agency determinations -- 1984 Parody and the first amendment -- 1984 Time-shifting and fair use -- 1986 Peremptory challenges to jury selection -- 1986 The first evidentiary use of DNA -- 1987 Pregnancy discrimination -- 1987 Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination -- 1988 Surrogate motherhood -- 1988 Women's admission to private clubs -- 1989 The Fatwa against The Satanic verses -- 1989 Celebrity tax prosecution -- 1989 The first gay marriage laws -- 1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act -- 1990 The end of Apartheid -- 1991 Confirming Clarence Thomas -- 1991 The trial of Manuel Noriega -- 1992 Smoking litigation -- 1992 The Rio Conference -- 1993 Creation of the European Union -- 1994 The hot coffee case -- 1995 Stem cell and cloning legislation -- 1995 The O.J. Simpson murder trial -- 1996 Limits on punitive damages -- 1996 South Africa's constitution -- 1996 Legalization of marijuana -- 1997 Presidential immunity -- 1997 The Communications Decency Act -- 1997 Physician-assisted suicide -- 1998 The line-item veto -- 1998 Indictment of Augusto Pinochet -- 1999 Copyright in the digital age -- 2000 Bush v. Gore -- 2000 The Microsoft monopoly -- 2001 Golf carts on the PGA Tour -- Expanded copyrights -- 2001 The USA PATRIOT Act -- 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- 2002 The international criminal court -- 2005 Public purpose and eminent domain -- 2008 The legality of gun control -- 2010 Google books and fair use -- 2010 Wall Street reform -- 2012 The future of juvenile punishment -- 2012 The Affordable Care Act -- 2015 The legal fight for Gay Marriage.