Common precedents : the presentness of the past in Victorian law and fiction
Ben-Yishai, AyeletAuthor
Ben-Yishai, Ayelet.Author
Examining legislative reform in the mid-Victorian period Ben-Yishai argues that precedential reasoning as a strategy for managing change produced innovations in legal and fictional writing simultaneously and in a mutually constitutive manner.
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Examining legislative reform in the mid-Victorian period Ben-Yishai argues that precedential reasoning as a strategy for managing change produced innovations in legal and fictional writing simultaneously and in a mutually constitutive manner.
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English fiction
Stare decisis
Judicial process
Social change in literature
Literature and society
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature