Sir Robert Chambers : Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson /

"Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-centu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Curley, Thomas M.
Otros Autores: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Chambers, Robert (Jurist)
Chambers, Robert, > Sir, > 1737-1803.
Chambers, Robert > 1737-1803
Chambers, Robert, > Sir, > 1737-1803
Law > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Law > India > History > 18th century.
Judges > India > Biography.
Law teachers > Great Britain > Biography.
Law teachers.
Law.
Judges.
Droit > Inde > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Professeurs de droit > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
India.
Great Britain.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Newcastle Youth and Oxford Apprenticeship
  • 2. Johnson and Chambers's Vinerian Professorship
  • 3. The Secret Collaboration
  • 4. Leave-taking from Johnson's London
  • 5. Passage to India
  • 6. The Judicial Murder of Maharajah Nuncomar
  • 7. Constitutional Reform and Calcutta Politics
  • 8. Crisis and Curtailment for the Supreme Court
  • 9. Tragedy and Triumph on Distant Shores
  • 10. In Memory of Johnson and India
  • 11. Empire and Asiatick Studies
  • 12. The Rise of Anglo-Indian Law for Modern India
  • 13. Chief Justice at Last
  • 14. Homecoming to England.

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