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From Blackstone To Bentham: Common Law Versus Legislation In Eighteenth-Century Britain, James Oldham
From Blackstone To Bentham: Common Law Versus Legislation In Eighteenth-Century Britain, James Oldham
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Province of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory in Eighteenth Century Britain by David Lieberman
Review Of The Province Of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Thomas A. Green
Review Of The Province Of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Thomas A. Green
Reviews
David Lieberman's lucid and sure-footed reinterpretationof late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century jurisprudence is original, thoughtful, analytically acute, and a pleasure to read. Lieberman argues that Bentham's law reform ideas must be viewed in relation to earlier (and contemporary) reform traditions. Bentham's views were more complex than the long-held myth would have it, partly because they were more derivative, at least in his early enterprises, combining as they did a reception of earlier notions with the novelty for which he is usually credited. Blackstone and Mansfield, on this account, were not the match stick figures they are sometimes made out to be; the …
Seagle: Men Of Law From Hammurabi To Holmes, Merrill N. Johnson S.Ed.
Seagle: Men Of Law From Hammurabi To Holmes, Merrill N. Johnson S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of MEN OF LAW FROM HAMMURABI TO HOLMES. By William Seagle.
The Popularization Of Law, Huntington Cairns
The Popularization Of Law, Huntington Cairns
Michigan Law Review
Law has been a major interest of the Western, and particularly the European, mind. Like physics it has provided a subject matter upon which many of the resources of the human intellect may be tested. It has yielded to many methods and, as a specialty with a circumscribed body of material, it has demanded the formulation of clear ideas so that interconnections are manifest and irrelevancies eliminated. Its great reward is the bestowal of the sense for style, which Whitehead has termed the ultimate morality of mind, and which is the product of specialization alone.