English law under two Elizabeths : the late Tudor legal world and the present / Sir John Baker, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, John H. (John Hamilton), author.

Series:

Hamlyn Lectures.

The Hamlyn lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.

Elizabeth.

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-.

Common law--England--History.

Common law.

Statutes--England.

Statutes.

Law--England--History.

Law.

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Comparative legal history is generally understood to involve the comparison of legal systems in different countries. This is an experiment in a different kind of comparison. The legal world of the first Elizabethans is separated from that of today by nearly half a millennium. But the past is not a wholly different country. The common law is still, in an organic sense, the same common law as it was in Tudor times and Parliament is legally the same Parliament. The concerns of Tudor lawyers turn out to resonate with those of the present and this book concentrates on three of them: access to justice, in terms of both cost and public awareness; the respective roles of common law and legislation; and the means of protecting the rule of law through the courts. Central to the story is the development of judicial review in the time of Elizabeth I.

Contents:

The English legal system under Elizabeth I

The Elizabethan common law

An age of common law and an age of statute?

The Elizabethan inheritance

Comparing then and now.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-95036-1

1-108-94413-2

1-108-93670-9

OCLC:

1249473556