Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic (Jeffersonian America)
A fascinating book. The effort to describe and analyze how early nineteenth-century American legal writers understood American law is noteworthy and important. Pearson is a sympathetic and careful reader of this remarkable outpouring of American legal literature.Remaking Customwill likely restore to these often forgotten writers the reputation they once deservedly had.(Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College School of Law, author ofThe Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire)