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.

Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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.