Abstract
Hugh MacMahon’s work, Progress, Stability, and the Struggle for Equality: A Ramble Through the Early Years of Maine Law, 1820–1920, is a thoroughly researched, well-written narrative that provides readers with a glimpse into Maine’s past while making them contemplate legal problems that will persist far into the future. MacMahon maintains a careful balance in his writing, ensuring it is not too dulled down for legal professionals, but not too complex—with superfluous legalese—for laymen. He does a wonderful job introducing legal concepts and demonstrating how those principles were first introduced into the Pine Tree State. Through the use of legal history, the author illustrates a seemingly simpler time, in which past Maine industries, like ice harvesting and logging, flourished; demonstrates how rapidly society was changing with the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and the Women’s Rights Movement; and discusses how the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court—conservative in its nature—had to delicately balance these complica
First Page
223
Recommended Citation
Christopher Harmon,
More Than a Ramble: A Law Student's Review of Hugh G.E. MacMahon's Progress, Stability, and the Struggle for Equality: A Ramble Through the Early Years of Maine Law, 1820-1920,
66
Me. L. Rev.
223
(2013).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/mlr/vol66/iss1/7