Blackstone and his Commentaries
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84946-642-4 (ISBN)
Among the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) is currently attracting renewed scholarly interest. Whilst the Commentaries no longer dominate legal education, they continue to be regularly cited in superior courts throughout the common law world, besides providing a remarkably comprehensive account of public and private law in England on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution.
The life and character of Blackstone himself, the nature and sources of his jurisprudence and the impact of his great book are the main themes of the collection. Individual essays treat Blackstone's early architectural treatises and their relationship to the Commentaries; his idiosyncratic bibliophilia; his views of the role of judges, interpretation of statutes, the law of marriage, natural law, property law and the legalities of colonisation. Together with the dissemination and the reception of the Commentaries, Blackstone's bibliography and iconography also receive attention. Combining the work of both eminent and emerging scholars, this interdisciplinary venture sheds welcome new light on a legal classic and its continued influence.
Wilfrid Prest, Professor Emeritus in History and Law at the University of Adelaide, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
I LIFE
1 Blackstone and Biography
Wilfrid Prest
2 A‘Model of the Old House’: Architecture in Blackstone’s Life and Commentaries
Carol Matthews
3 ‘A Mighty Consumption of Ale’: Blackstone, Buckler and All Souls College, Oxford
Norma Aubertin-Potter
4 William Blackstone and William Prynne: An Unlikely Association?
Ian Doolittle
II THOUGHT
5 Blackstone on Judging
John H Langbein
6 Blackstone’s Rules for the Construction of Statutes
John V Orth
7 Blackstone and Bentham on the Law of Marriage
Mary Sokol
8 Coverture and Unity of Person in Blackstone’s Commentaries
Tim Stretton
9 Blackstone’s Commentaries on Colonialism: Australian Judicial Interpretations
Thalia Anthony
10 Restoring the ‘Real’ to Real Property Law: A Return to Blackstone?
Nicole Graham
III INFLUENCE
11 American Blackstones
Michael Hoeflich
12 Did Blackstone get the Gallic Shrug?
John Emerson
13 Blackstone in Germany
Horst Dippel
IV SOURCES
14 Bibliography
Morris Cohen
15 Iconography
JH Baker and Wilfrid Prest
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.7.2014 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 439 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84946-642-4 / 1849466424 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84946-642-4 / 9781849466424 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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