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." . . the real source of his Cooley's] fame. This book originated
from the need of introducing a course on Constitutional Law in the
school. . . . The text was developed as a basis for lectures. . . .
His discussion attained immediate fame and his views and
suggestions practically dominated American Constitutional Law. . .
. Like Blackstone, Pomeroy and many other legal works, the
influence of Constitutional Limitations rests partly upon literary
qualities, upon clarity and grace of unaffected statement." --James
G. Rogers, American Bar Leaders 70."The most influential work ever
published on American Constitutional law." --Edward S. Corwin,
Constitutional Revolution 87.Thomas McIntyre Cooley 1824-1898] was
a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and was appointed by
President Grover Cleveland to serve on the Interstate Commerce
Commission. He was a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University
and dean of the University of Michigan Law School. First issued in
1870, his edition of Blackstone, popularly known as "Cooley's
Blackstone," was the standard American edition of the late
nineteenth century. Some of his other influential publications are
A Treatise on the Law of Taxation (1876) and A Treatise on the Law
of Torts or the Wrongs Which Arise Independently of Contract
(1878). Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, founded
in 1972, was named in his honor.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm20690162Also issued in set in 1993 as fiche nos.
77979-77984.Boston: Little, Brown, 1898. li, 423 p.; 20 cm.
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