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Informationen zum Autor Angela Fernandez is professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Markus D Dubber is professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Putting the Legal Treatise in Its Place Angela Fernandez and Markus D Dubber1. Historicising Blackstone's Commentaries on The Laws of England: Difference and Sameness in Historical Time Kunal M Parker2. 'Of Institutes and Treatises': Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia Philip Girard3. Tapping Reeve, Coverture and America's First Legal Treatise Angela Fernandez4. Story'd Paradigms for the Nineteenth-Century Display of Anglo-American Legal Doctrine G Blaine Baker5. A Province of Jurisprudence?: Invention of a Law of Constitutional Conventions Roman J Hoyos6. Nineteenth-Century Treatises on English Contract Law Stephen Waddams7. Of Treatises and Textbooks: The Literature of the Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain Lindsay Farmer8. Truth and Privilege: Libel Treatises and the Transmission of Legal Norms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World Lyndsay Campbell9. Renovate or Rebuild? Treatises, Digests and Criminal Law Codification Barry Wright10. A Low Law Counter Treatise? Absentees' to 'Wreck' in British North America's First Justice of the Peace Manual Jim Phillips11. Commentary: Effects of Scale: Toward a History of the Literature of Law Christopher Tomlins
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Introduction: Putting the Legal Treatise in Its Place
Angela Fernandez and Markus D Dubber
1. Historicising Blackstone's Commentaries on The Laws of England: Difference and Sameness in Historical Time
Kunal M Parker
2. 'Of Institutes and Treatises': Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia
Philip Girard
3. Tapping Reeve, Coverture and America's First Legal Treatise
Angela Fernandez
4. Story'd Paradigms for the Nineteenth-Century Display of Anglo-American Legal Doctrine
G Blaine Baker
5. A Province of Jurisprudence?: Invention of a Law of Constitutional Conventions
Roman J Hoyos
6. Nineteenth-Century Treatises on English Contract Law
Stephen Waddams
7. Of Treatises and Textbooks: The Literature of the Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Lindsay Farmer
8. Truth and Privilege: Libel Treatises and the Transmission of Legal Norms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World
Lyndsay Campbell
9. Renovate or Rebuild? Treatises, Digests and Criminal Law Codification
Barry Wright
10. A Low Law Counter Treatise? Absentees' to 'Wreck' in British North America's First Justice of the Peace Manual
Jim Phillips
11. Commentary: Effects of Scale: Toward a History of the Literature of Law
Christopher Tomlins
About the author
Angela Fernandez is professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.Markus D Dubber is professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
