Law books in action : essays on the Anglo-American legal treatise /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Fernandez, Angela, 1973-, Dubber, Markus Dirk
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2012.
Subjects:	Legal research > Great Britain > History. Legal research > United States > History. Legal research > Canada > History. Practice of law > Great Britain > History. Practice of law > United States > History. Practice of law > Canada > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : putting the legal treatise in its place / Angela Fernandez and Markus D. Dubber
Historicising Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : difference and sameness in historical time / Kunal M. Parker
'Of institutes and treatises' : Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the laws of Nova-Scotia / Philip Girard
Tapping Reeve, coverture and America's first legal treatise / Angela Fernandez
Story'd paradigms for the nineteenth-century display of Anglo-American legal doctrine / G. Blaine Baker
A province of jurisprudence? : invention of a law of constitutional conventions / Roman J. Hoyos
Nineteenth-century treatises on English contract law / Stephen Waddams
Of treatises and textbooks : the literature of the criminal law in nineteenth-century Britain / Lindsay Farmer
Truth and privilege : libel treatises and the transmission of legal norms in the early nineteenth-century Anglo-American world / Lyndsay Campbell
Renovate or rebuild? : treatises, digests and criminal law codification / Barry Wright
A low law counter treatise? : 'absentees' to 'wreck' in British North America's first justice of the peace manual / Jim Phillips
Commentary : effects of scale : toward a history of the literature of law / Christopher Tomlins.