Law books in action
Subtitle: essays on the Anglo-American legal treatise
By: edited by Angela Fernandez and Markus D. Dubber
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781849461412
Subjects: Legal research; Practice of law; History
Other titles: Essays on the Anglo-American legal treatise
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Putting the legal treatise in its place / Angela Fernandez and Markus D Dubber; title: Historicising Blackstone's commentaries on the laws of England : difference and sameness in historical time / Kunal M Parker; title: 'Of institutes and treatises' : Blackstone's commentaries, Kent's commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the laws of Nova-Scotia / Philip Girard; title: Tapping Reeve, coverture and America's first legal treatise / Angela Fernandez; title: Story'd paradigms for the nineteenth-century display of Anglo-American legal doctrine / G. Blaine Baker; title: A province of jurisprudence? : Invention of a law of constitutional conventions / Roman J. Hoyos; title: Nineteenth-century treatises on English contract law / Stephen Waddams; title: Of treatises and textbooks : the literature of the criminal law in nineteenth-century Britain / Lindsay Farmer; title: Truth and privilege : libel treatises and the transmission of legal norms in the early nineteenth-century Anglo-American world / Lyndsay Campbell; title: Renovate or rebuild? : Treatises, digests and criminal law codification / Barry Wright; title: A low law counter treatise? : 'Absentees' to 'wreck' in British North America's first justice of the peace manual / Jim Phillips; title: Commentary : Effects of scale : toward a history of the literature of law / Christopher Tomlins