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Aimed at historians, lawyers and jurists, this book shows how networks and connections between lawyers, legislators and litigants shape the way that legal ideas and practices are transmitted across time and space. It includes studies of law in Britain and the empire, as well as the feminist movement and Shakespeare.
List of contents
1. Introduction Michael Lobban and Ian Williams; 2. Networks and Influences: Contextualising Personnel and Procedures in the Court of Chivalry Anthony Musson; 3. Men of law and legal networks in Aberdeen, principally in 1600-1650 Adelyn Wilson; 4. Calling Time at the Bar: First women barristers and their networks and connections Judith Bourne; 5. The Thistle, the Rose, and the Palm: Scottish and English Judges in British East Florida M. C. Mirow; 6. 'The Bengal Boiler': Legal Networks in Colonial Calcutta Raymond Cocks; 7. The White Ensign on Land: The Royal Navy and Legal Authority in Early Sierra Leone Tim Soriano; 8. A Broker's Advice: Credit Networks and Mortgage Risk in the Eighteenth-century Empire Julia Rudolph; 9. Trans-Atlantic connections: The many networks and the enduring legacy of J.P. Benjamin Catharine MacMillan; 10. Interpretatio ex aequo et bono - the emergence of equitable interpretation in European legal scholarship Lorenzo Maniscalco; 11. Shakespeare and the European Ius Commune R. H. Helmholz; 12. Law Reporting and Law Making: the Missing Link in Nineteenth-century Tax Law Chantal Stebbings; 13. John Taylor Coleridge and English Criminal Law Philip Handler
About the author
Michael Lobban is Professor of Legal History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, England. He is the author of The Common Law and English Jurisprudence, 1760-1850 (1991) and A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600-1900 (2007), as well as one of the authors of volumes XI-XIII of The Oxford History of the Laws of England.Ian Williams is Associate Professor at the University College London Faculty of Laws, England. His research interests are principally in legal history, particularly early-modern English legal history. He is co-editor of Landmark Cases in Criminal Law.
Summary
Aimed at historians, lawyers and jurists, this book shows how networks and connections between lawyers, legislators and litigants shape the way that legal ideas and practices are transmitted across time and space. It includes studies of law in Britain and the empire, as well as the feminist movement and Shakespeare.
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'Network analysis has long proved important in sociology and history, but is seldom used in legal history. This fascinating, wide-ranging and important book makes a persuasive case for the value of network analysis within and beyond legal history. It provides a number of models for thinking about how, why and to what effect different networks help to fashion the development of law. In addition to making a valuable contribution to legal history, the book should appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines.' David Sugarman, Lancaster University Law School and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
