Jurists-- profiles in legal theory Francis Bacon
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0748603182
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
x, 358 pages
Subject
English Biography
Series Name
Abstract
"This is the first modern book to describe Francis Bacon's jurisprudence. He has long been famous as a scientist, philosopher, politician and literary giant, but his career as one of England's greatest lawyers and jurists has been largely overlooked..."- Book cover
Description
Contents:
The enchanted glass -- The early legal works: the Elizabethan Bacon -- The initial Jacobean works: law reform and Bacon's attack on metaphysical formalism -- The theorist as advocate: Bacon's legal arguments -- The theorist as judge: Bacon's concept of the judicial function -- The final vision: the Instauratio magna and the New Atlantis.
The enchanted glass -- The early legal works: the Elizabethan Bacon -- The initial Jacobean works: law reform and Bacon's attack on metaphysical formalism -- The theorist as advocate: Bacon's legal arguments -- The theorist as judge: Bacon's concept of the judicial function -- The final vision: the Instauratio magna and the New Atlantis.
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