Why legal history matters
Finding and making the common law
Charting new courses
Foundational constitutional principles
Paupers
Maine's law's debt to animals
Contributory negligence and railroad crossing collisions
Women and the law
Employee injuries
Wrongful death claims
Maine's morality laws
Ensuring public safety
The court and the public schools
Maine's blasphemy case
The Civil War
Maine's rivers
Resolving disputes between neighbors
Governmental power and private property
Concluding thoughts.