Common Law and Natural Law in America - From the Puritans to the Legal Realists

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Forsyth is Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, and Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Secretary and Vice President for Student Life, at Yale University, Connecticut. A Cambridge law graduate, he studied theology and religious studies at the University of Glasgow, Harvard University, and Yale University. He has recently published articles in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Scottish Journal of Theology. Klappentext Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law's varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Puritan natural law: early New England and the colonial colleges; 2. Modern natural law: revolutionaries and republicans; 3. Organizing common law: William Blackstone in America; 4. subsuming natural law into common law: Joseph Story; 5. Law as science: Christopher Columbus Langdell; 6. Breaking with natural law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the legal realists; Epilogue; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Forsyth, Andrew (Yale University Forsyth, Forsyth Andrew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108476973
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47697-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Law and Christianity; Law and Christianity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; USA, LAW / Jurisprudence, Christianity, United States of America, USA, Common Law, Constitution: government & the state, Law & society, Constitution: government and the state, Law and society, sociology of law, Systems of law: common law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law