The Anglo-American legal heritage : introductory materials
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0890897255
ISBN 13
9780890897256
Category
Comparative Study
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Carolina Academic Press, United States
Pages
xx, 642 pages
Subject
Comparative Study
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Abstract
"This fascinating book about our legal heritage is copiously illustrated with original materials. From our cultural roots in the Roman law, the Anglo-Saxon dooms, and English feudalism, to modern crises of social revolution and reform. Coquillette's work shows how legal culture is part of what has been called the "seamless web" of history. Most introductory books rely heavily, if not exclusively, on secondary sources. This book, however, provides carefully edited and chosen primary sources and culminates with provocative excerpts of the most recent twentieth century historical criticism. Also included are many useful charts and diagrams, and an extensive bibliography for each chapter suggests and encourages further study. Today we face dynamic challenges to our system of justice and to our legal profession. The experience of the centuries, however, is available to us, as it was to the founders of our legal order in ages past. " -AbeBooks
Description
Content:
Ch. I. The Glory that was Rome -- Ch. II. The Anglo-Saxon Period -- Ch. III. The Norman-Angevin Administrators: Birth of the Modern State -- Ch. IV. A Brief Introduction to English Feudalism -- Ch. V. Courts of Record -- Ch. VI. Equity -- Ch. VII. Specialized Courts of the Renaissance: The "Civilians," the Admiralty, and the other Conciliar Courts -- Ch. VIII. Appeal -- Ch. IX. The Birth of the English Legal Profession and English Legal Education -- Ch. X. Law Reports, Passion and Judges: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, and the Intellectual Seeds of the Civil War -- Ch. XI. Lawmaking and Revolution -- Ch. XII. "Law and Order" in Eighteenth Century England -- Ch. XIII. The Nineteenth Century: Legal Instrumentalism, Codification and Utilitarianism -- Ch. XIV. The Twentieth Century: The "New Jurisprudence", "Critical Legal Studies" and the "Post-Liberal Society" -- Ch. XV. Conclusion: Law and History.
Ch. I. The Glory that was Rome -- Ch. II. The Anglo-Saxon Period -- Ch. III. The Norman-Angevin Administrators: Birth of the Modern State -- Ch. IV. A Brief Introduction to English Feudalism -- Ch. V. Courts of Record -- Ch. VI. Equity -- Ch. VII. Specialized Courts of the Renaissance: The "Civilians," the Admiralty, and the other Conciliar Courts -- Ch. VIII. Appeal -- Ch. IX. The Birth of the English Legal Profession and English Legal Education -- Ch. X. Law Reports, Passion and Judges: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, and the Intellectual Seeds of the Civil War -- Ch. XI. Lawmaking and Revolution -- Ch. XII. "Law and Order" in Eighteenth Century England -- Ch. XIII. The Nineteenth Century: Legal Instrumentalism, Codification and Utilitarianism -- Ch. XIV. The Twentieth Century: The "New Jurisprudence", "Critical Legal Studies" and the "Post-Liberal Society" -- Ch. XV. Conclusion: Law and History.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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