Law and history /
This title contains a broad range of essays by prominent legal historians, which explore the ways in which history has been used by lawyers.
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
| Published: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Current legal issues ;
v. 6. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the tools and the tasks of the legal historian / Michael Lobban
- What is legal history a history of? / David Ibbetson
- Norms and legal argument before 1150 / Paul Hyams
- Myth, mistake, invention? Excavating the foundations of the English legal tradition / Anthony Musson
- Montesquieu between law and history / Andrew Lewis
- The ambition of Lord Kames's equity / Michael Lobban
- Law, history, and memorable sentences / Raymond Cocks
- Henry Sumner Maine's grand tour: Roman law in ancient law / Carl Landauer
- Law and 'tradition': Henry Maine and the theoretical origins of indirect rule / Karuna Mantena
- Max Weber and comparative legal history / David d'Avray
- Weber and the ideal of Roman law / Kaius Tuori
- Law, history, and the social sciences: intellectual traditions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe / Joshua Getzler
- Classification of private law in relation to historical evidence: description, prescription, and conceptual analysis / Stephen Waddams
- Mistaken arguments: the role of argument in the development of a doctrine of contractual mistake in nineteenth-century England / Catharine MacMillan
- 'Officialism': law, bureaucracy, and ideology in late Victorian England / Chantel Stebbings
- Perjurious Albion: perjury prosecutions and the Victorian trial / Wendie Ellen Schneider
- Unsettling accounts: methodological issues within the reconstruction of the role of a US intelligence agency within the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials / Michael Salter
- The Holocaust, history, and legal memory / Lawrence Douglas
- 'Settling accounts': law as history in the Trial of the Gang of Four / Alexander Cook
- Law and chaos: legal argument as a non-linear process / Eileen M. O'Sullivan.