Part One: The legal profession
1. The lawyer's role in a new nation
2. Organization of a professional bar
Part Two: Allocation of power
1. The nation and the state
2. The executive, the legislature, and the courts
3. Private and public international law
Part Three: Law and reform
1. Lawyer's law
2. Common law or code?
3. Social reform
Part Four: A legal framework for economic development
1. The corporations
2. Industrial society: Banking, credit, and bankruptcy
3. Railroads
4. The beginnings of Urbanism
Part Five: The search for legal identity
1. Common law and American circumstances
2. The western frontier
3. The principles of natural law
4. The laboratory of the states: American experimentalism