Judges, Legislators and Professors
Subtitle: Chapters in European Legal History (Goodhart Lectures)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 27, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780521438179
Subjects: Comparative law; English Law; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; Legal History; Common law--Great Britain--History; Common law--Great Britain--History Common law; Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / Legal History; Law-Legal History
First sentence: If amazement is the mother of science, the continental lawyer's amazement when he is confronted with the English common law must be one of the most powerful factors in the scientific study of the law (to which, after all, the Goodhart professorship is devoted).