Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

It is widely accepted that American procedure - and indeed American legal culture as a whole - are adversarial (and distinctively so). Yet, precisely because this assumption is so deep-rooted, we have no history of how American adversarialism arose. This text provides such a history. It shows that the United States long employed not only lawyer-empowering adversarial procedure, but also various forms of more judge-dependent, quasi-inquisitorial procedure - including the equity tradition borrowed from England and, to a lesser extent, conciliation courts transplanted from continental Europe.

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