Anglo-American Legal Heritage Introductory Materials

Name: Anglo-American Legal Heritage Introductory Materials
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ISBN: 9781594600388

ISBN-10: 1594600384

ISBN-13: 9781594600388

Edition: 2nd 2004

Authors: Daniel Coquillette

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This fascinating book about our legal heritage is copiously illustrated, original materials. From our cultural roots in the Roman law, Anglo-Saxon dooms, and English feudalism, to modern crises of social revolution and reform, this work shows how legal culture is part of what has been called the "seamless web" of history.

Book details

List price: $70.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 664
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English



The glory that has Rome


The Anglo-Saxon period


The Norman-Angevin administrators : birth of the modern state


A brief introduction to English feudalism


Courts of record


Equity


Specialized courts of the Renaissance : the "civilians," the admiralty, and the other conciliar courts


Appeal


The birth of the English legal profession and English legal education


Law reports, passion and judges : Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, and the intellectual seeds of the civil war


Lawmaking and revolution


"Law and order" in eighteenth century England


The nineteenth century : legal instrumentalism, codification and utilitarianism


The twentieth century : the "new jurisprudence", "critical legal studies" and the "post -liberal society"


Conclusion : law and history