Episode Thirty-Eight: American Law in the Gilded Age, Part I

In this the first of three episodes on American law in the Gilded Age, we will examine American law after the Civil War. Specifically in regard to the rise of truely national coporations, the plight of industrial workers and farmes, a mode of opinion writing known as clasical legal thought, and the recrafting of the Fourteenth Amedment by the Supreme Court for the benefit of property and business interests. We will also take a close look at the first important case concerning the Fourteenth Amendment, the Slaughterhouse Cases, and it enduring legacy.