Law Books in Action : Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise.

By:

Fernandez, Angela, 1973-

Contributor(s):

Dubber, Markus Dirk

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Hart, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781847319227
184731922X
9781849461412
1849461414
9781472561145
1472561147
9781847319234
1847319238
1283609541
9781283609548
9786613921994
6613921998

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

340.072

LOC classification:

KD392 .L39 2012

Other classification:

KL426

Online resources:

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.