Networks and connections in legal history /
This book examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers, from Scotland to East Florida and India, shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how, as with twent...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | This book examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers, from Scotland to East Florida and India, shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how, as with twentieth century feminist campaigns, personal connections could be crucial in pressuring the legislature to institute reform. It explores the transmission of legal ideas and practices from one location to another, across time and space. What happened to those ideas and practices was not predetermined, but when new connections were made, they could assume a new life. In some cases new thinkers made intellectual connections not previously thought of. In others, it was the new purposes to which ideas and practices were applied which made them adapt. |
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| Item Description: | "The essays assembled in this collection derive from papers delivered at the twenty third British Legal History conference, held at University College, London in July 2017." |
| Physical Description: | vii, 343 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108490887 1108490883 9781108796637 110879663X |