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Law Books in Action : Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise.
The essays in this collection explore the history of the legal treatise in the common law world, and ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prelims; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Putting the Legal Treatise in Its Place; 1. Historicising Blackstone''s Commentaries on The Laws of England; 2. ''Of Institutes and Treatises'': Blackstone''s Commentaries, Kent''s Commentaries and Murdoch''s Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia; 3. Tapping Reeve, Coverture and America''s First Legal Treatise; 4. Story''d Paradigms for the Nineteenth-Century Display of Anglo-American Legal Doctrine; 5. A Province of Jurisprudence?: Invention of a Law of Constitutional Conventions; 6. Nineteenth-Century Treatises on English Contract Law.
- 7. Of Treatises and Textbooks: the Literature of the Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain8. Truth and Privilege: Libel Treatises and the Transmission of Legal Norms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World; 9. Renovate or Rebuild? Treatises, Digests and Criminal Law Codification; 10. A Low Law Counter Treatise? ''Absentees'' to ''Wreck'' in British North America''s First Justice of the Peace Manual; 11. Commentary: Effects of Scale: Toward a History of the Literature of Law; Index.