Law books in action essays on the Anglo-American legal treatise edited by Angela Fernandez and Markus D. Dubber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernandez, Angela, 1973- editor.

Dubber, Markus Dirk, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal research--Great Britain--History.

Legal research.

Legal research--United States--History.

Legal research--Canada--History.

Practice of law--Great Britain--History.

Practice of law.

Practice of law--United States--History.

Practice of law--Canada--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Essays on the Anglo-American legal treatise

Place of Publication:

Oxford Portland, Oregon Hart Publishing 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular

Contents:

Introduction : Putting the legal treatise in its place / Angela Fernandez and Markus D Dubber

Historicising Blackstone's commentaries on the laws of England : difference and sameness in historical time / Kunal M Parker

'Of institutes and treatises' : Blackstone's commentaries, Kent's commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the laws of Nova-Scotia / Philip Girard

Tapping Reeve, coverture and America's first legal treatise / Angela Fernandez

Story'd paradigms for the nineteenth-century display of Anglo-American legal doctrine / G. Blaine Baker

A province of jurisprudence? : Invention of a law of constitutional conventions / Roman J. Hoyos

Nineteenth-century treatises on English contract law / Stephen Waddams

Of treatises and textbooks : the literature of the criminal law in nineteenth-century Britain / Lindsay Farmer

Truth and privilege : libel treatises and the transmission of legal norms in the early nineteenth-century Anglo-American world / Lyndsay Campbell

Renovate or rebuild? : Treatises, digests and criminal law codification / Barry Wright

A low law counter treatise? : 'Absentees' to 'wreck' in British North America's first justice of the peace manual / Jim Phillips

Commentary : Effects of scale : toward a history of the literature of law / Christopher Tomlins

Introduction: Putting the Legal Treatise in Its Place

Angela Fernandez and Markus D Dubber

1. Historicising Blackstone's Commentaries on The Laws of England: Difference and Sameness in Historical Time

Kunal M Parker

2. 'Of Institutes and Treatises': Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia

Philip Girard

3. Tapping Reeve, Coverture and America's First Legal Treatise

Angela Fernandez

4. Story'd Paradigms for the Nineteenth-Century Display of Anglo-American Legal Doctrine

G Blaine Baker

5. A Province of Jurisprudence?: Invention of a Law of Constitutional Conventions

Roman J Hoyos

6. Nineteenth-Century Treatises on English Contract Law

Stephen Waddams

7. Of Treatises and Textbooks: The Literature of the Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Lindsay Farmer

8. Truth and Privilege: Libel Treatises and the Transmission of Legal Norms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World

Lyndsay Campbell

9. Renovate or Rebuild? Treatises, Digests and Criminal Law Codification

Barry Wright

10. A Low Law Counter Treatise? Absentees' to 'Wreck' in British North America's First Justice of the Peace Manual

Jim Phillips

11. Commentary: Effects of Scale: Toward a History of the Literature of Law

Christopher Tomlins

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786613921994

9781847319234

1847319238

9781472561145

1472561147

9781283609548

1283609541

9781847319227

184731922X

OCLC:

811506967