Blackstone in America : selected essays of Kathryn Preyer
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0521490871
ISBN 13
9780521490870
DDC
340.5
Category
American Law
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Publication Year
2009
Publisher
Pages
xii, 287 pages
Subject
American General Law
Abstract
"Blackstone in America explores the creative process of transplantation – the way in which American legislators and judges refashioned the English common law inheritance to fit the republican political culture of the new nation. With current scholarship returning to focus on the transformation of Anglo-American law to “American” law, Professor Kathryn Preyer’s lifelong study of the constitutional and legal culture of the early American republic has acquired new relevance and a wider audience. The collection includes Professor Preyer’s work on criminal law, the early national judiciary, and the history of the book. All nine of Professor Preyer’s important and award-winning essays are easily accessible in this volume, with new introductions by three leading scholars of early American law." - Amazon
Description
Content:
Federalist policy and the Judiciary Act of 1801 -- The appointment of Chief Justice Marshall -- The midnight judges -- U.S. v. Callender : judge and jury in a Republican society -- Penal measures in the American colonies : an overview -- Crime, the criminal law, and reform in post-revolutionary Virginia -- Jurisdiction to punish : federal authority, federalism, and the common law of crimes in the early Republic -- Cesare Beccaria and the founding fathers -- Two enlightened criminal law reformers : Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Peter Leopold.
Federalist policy and the Judiciary Act of 1801 -- The appointment of Chief Justice Marshall -- The midnight judges -- U.S. v. Callender : judge and jury in a Republican society -- Penal measures in the American colonies : an overview -- Crime, the criminal law, and reform in post-revolutionary Virginia -- Jurisdiction to punish : federal authority, federalism, and the common law of crimes in the early Republic -- Cesare Beccaria and the founding fathers -- Two enlightened criminal law reformers : Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Peter Leopold.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Number of Copies
1
