Shaping the Common Law - From Glanvill to Hale, 1188-1688

Zusatztext "A delightful, eloquent, and deeply learned tour of the great writers and books of English legal history! Essential reading for Americanists for whom Glanvill, Littleton, Coke, Dalton, Hale, and Magna Carta are much referenced but often less than well understood." Informationen zum Autor Thomas Garden Barnes is Professor Emeritus of History and Law at University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the Legal Classics Library for the Gryphon Press. Allen D. Boyer, a lawyer in New York City, serves on the advisory board of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and is the author of Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age (Stanford, 20 Klappentext Thomas Garden Barnes is Professor Emeritus of History and Law at University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the Legal Classics Library for the Gryphon Press. Allen D. Boyer, a lawyer in New York City, serves on the advisory board of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and is the author of Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age (Stanford, 20 Zusammenfassung In a series of vivid essays, this book discusses the judges, law books, and historical events that shaped the common law - from its origins in the twelfth century to its arrival in the new American colonies.

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• Authors: Thomas Barnes, Thomas Garden Barnes, Thomas Garden/ Boyer Barnes, Allen D. Boyer
• Assisted by: Allen Boyer (Editor), Allen D Boyer (Editor), Allen D. Boyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2008
• EAN: 9780804757140
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5714-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Jurists: Profiles in Legal The; Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory; Jurists: Profiles in Legal The; Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous