Western Cannon Law / R. C. Mortimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mortimer, R. C., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Possibly the most influential jurisprudent of the twentieth century, HANS KELSEN [1881-1973] was legal adviser to Austria's last emperor and its first republican government, the founder and permanent advisor of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Austria, and the author of Austria's Constitution, which was enacted in 1920, abolished during the Anschluss, and restored in 1945. He was the author of more than forty books on law and legal philosophy. Active as a teacher in Europe and the United States, he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and taught at the universities of Cologne and Prague, the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Harvard, Wellesley, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Naval War College.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I. THE GROWTH OF THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

II. CHAOS AND REFORM

III. THE CREATION OF THE CORPUS

IV. THE CANON LAW IN ENGLAND AFTER THE REFORMATION

V. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CANON LAW

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520349599

0520349598

OCLC:

1198930403