The Future of the common law.
Contributors: Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964.; Harvard Law School.; Conference on the Future of the Common Law (1936 : Harvard University)
Series: Harvard tercentenary publications
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Common law -- Congresses.
Notes: "The Harvard law school 'Conference on the Future of the Common Law' was held in ... Cambridge, on August 19-21, 1936, as one of the symposia which formed part of the celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of Harvard College."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: What is the common law? / by Roscoe Pound; title: The common law and the civil law in the British commonwealth of nations / by Sir M.S. Amos.  Remarks / by J.H. Wigmore and W.C. Van Vleck; title: The common law in its old home / by Lord Wright of Durley; title: The common law in the United States / by H.F. Stone.  Remarks / by O.W. Branch, W.D. Lewis and H.F. Goodrich; title: The common law in Canada / by H.H. Davis; title: The common law in Ireland / by Henry Hanna.  Remarks / by W.E. Treanor and H.U. Sims; title: The spirit of the common law / by F.E. Crane; title: Appendix: The greeting from the Association of Legal Science of the Keiogijuku University, of Tokyo, Japan, is here reproduced.