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Blackstone, Expositor And Censor Of Law Both Made And Found, Jessie Allen
Blackstone, Expositor And Censor Of Law Both Made And Found, Jessie Allen
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Jeremy Bentham famously insisted on the separation of law as it is and law as it should be, and criticized his contemporary William Blackstone for mixing up the two. According to Bentham, Blackstone costumes judicial invention as discovery, obscuring the way judges make new law while pretending to uncover preexisting legal meaning. Bentham’s critique of judicial phoniness persists to this day in claims that judges are “politicians in robes” who pick the outcome they desire and rationalize it with doctrinal sophistry. Such skeptical attacks are usually met with attempts to defend doctrinal interpretation as a partial or occasional limit on …
Book Review. Charles Dickens As A Legal Historian By W. S. Holdsworth, Fowler V. Harper
Book Review. Charles Dickens As A Legal Historian By W. S. Holdsworth, Fowler V. Harper
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The Literature Of Law, Ernest W. Huffcut
The Literature Of Law, Ernest W. Huffcut
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