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Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries - A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts (Paperback)
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Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries - A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts (Paperback)
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This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing
influence of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of
England, from the work's original publication in the 1760s down to
the present. Contributions by cultural and literary scholars, and
intellectual and legal historians trace the manner in which this
truly seminal text has established its authority well beyond the
author's native shores or his own limited lifespan. In the first
section, 'Words and Visions', Kathryn Temple, Simon Stern, Cristina
S Martinez and Michael Meehan discuss the Commentaries' aesthetic
and literary qualities as factors contributing to the work's unique
status in Anglo-American legal culture. The second group of essays
traces the nature and dimensions of Blackstone's impact in various
jurisdictions outside England, namely Quebec (Michel Morin),
Louisiana and the United States more generally (John W Cairns and
Stephen M Sheppard), North Carolina (John V Orth) and Australasia
(Wilfrid Prest). Finally Horst Dippel, Paul Halliday and Ruth Paley
examine aspects of Blackstone's influential constitutional and
political ideas, while Jessie Allen concludes the volume with a
personal account of 'Reading Blackstone in the Twenty-First Century
and the Twenty-First Century through Blackstone'. This volume is a
sequel to the well-received collection Blackstone and his
Commentaries: Biography, Law, History (Hart Publishing, 2009).
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