Settlement

In this section of the course, we consider the process by which colonial legal regimes were created in British North America, and how the law was "settled," by the relevant forms of social negotiation.

Readings

Assigned

For the Colony in Virginea Brittania, Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall

Suggested

Wallace Notestein, The English People on the Eve of Colonization, 1603-1630 (1954). Alternative PDF version

Notes and Materials

Projects