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Blackstone and his Commentaries - Biography, Law, History (Hardcover, New)
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Blackstone and his Commentaries - Biography, Law, History (Hardcover, New)
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One of the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal
tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
(1765-9) has recently begun to attract renewed interest from legal
and other scholars. The Commentaries no longer dominate legal
education as they once did, especially in North America during the
century after their first publication. But they continue to be
regularly cited in the judgments of superior courts of review on
both sides of the Atlantic, and elsewhere throughout the common-law
world. They also provide constitutional, cultural, intellectual and
legal historians with a remarkably comprehensive account of the
role of law, lawyers and the courts in the imperial superpower that
was England on the cusp of the industrial revolution. The life and
character of Blackstone himself, the nature and sources of his
jurisprudence as expounded in the Commentaries, and the impact of
his great book, both within and beyond his native shores, are the
main themes of this collection. Individual essays treat
Blackstone's early architectural treatises and their relationship
to the Commentaries; his idiosyncratic book collecting; his views
of the role of judges, interpretation of statutes, the law of
marriage, the status of wives, natural law, property law and the
legalities of colonisation, and the varied reception of the
Commentaries in America and continental Europe. Blackstone's
bibliography and iconography also receive attention. Combining the
work of both eminent and emerging scholars, this interdisciplinary
venture sheds welcome new light on a legal classic and its
continued influence. I Life 1 Blackstone and Biography - Wilfrid
Prest 2 A 'Model of the Old House': Architecture in Blackstone's
Life and Commentaries - Carol Matthews 3 'A Mighty Consumption of
Ale': Blackstone, Buckler, and All Souls College, Oxford - Norma
Aubertin-Potter 4 William Blackstone and William Prynne: an
Unlikely Association? - Ian Doolittle II Thought 5 Blackstone on
Judging - John H Langbein 6 Blackstone's Rules for the Construction
of Statutes - John V Orth 7 Blackstone and Bentham on the Law of
Marriage - Mary Sokol 8 Coverture and Unity of Person in
Blackstone's Commentaries -Tim Stretton 9 Blackstone's Commentaries
on Colonialism: Australian Judicial Interpretations - Thalia
Anthony 10 Restoring the 'Real' to Real Property Law: A Return to
Blackstone? - Nicole Graham III Influence 11 American Blackstones -
Michael Hoeflich 12 Did Blackstone get the Gallic Shrug? - John
Emerson 13 Blackstone in Germany - Horst Dippel IV Sources 14
Bibliography - Morris Cohen 15 Iconography - J H Baker and Wilfrid
Prest Contributors -Thalia Anthony lectures in law at the
University of Sydney. -Norma Aubertin-Potter is Librarian-in-Charge
of the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford. -J H Baker,
Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of
Cambridge, is Literary Director of the Selden Society. -Morris
Cohen, Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer in Law, is the
former Librarian of Yale Law School. -Horst Dippel is Professor of
British and American Studies at the University of Kassel. -Ian
Doolittle, formerly a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church,
Oxford, is a partner in the law firm Trowers and Hamlins LLP in
London. -John Emerson holds a Visiting Research Fellowship in the
Law School, University of Adelaide. -Nicole Graham is Senior
Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney.
-Michael Hoeflich is John H and John M Kane Distinguished Professor
in the Law School, University of Kansas. -John Langbein is Sterling
Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School. -Carol
Matthews teaches in the School of History and Politics at the
University of Adelaide. -John V Orth holds the William Rand Kenan
Jr Chair of Law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
-Wilfrid Prest is Professor Emeritus and Visiting Research Fellow
in the Law School and School of History and Politics, University of
Adelaide. -Mary Sokol holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the
Bentham Project at University College London. -Tim Stretton teaches
history at St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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