The Historians of Anglo-American Law

The Historians of Anglo-American Law
Author: Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1928
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Deals with the Professional Tradition of the historical development of English law as it influences the historians of Anglo-American law.

History of the Common Law

History of the Common Law
Author: John H. Langbein
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Total Pages: 1194
Release: 2009-08-14
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs.

A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract

A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract
Author: Kevin M. Teeven
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780313261510

This first booklength survey of the 800-year evolution of Anglo-American common law contract begins in 12th-century England and extends to contemporary America, focusing on how procedural, economic, intellectual, and social considerations tempered the form of contract law and analyzing the thought of lawyers and judges throughout the period. Covers Plantagenet royal courts in England to contract law in the context of American urban, industrialized society; reviews public policy, consumerism, and codification; and poses questions about the future direction of contract law.

The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law

The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law
Author: David Kershaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108651135

This book explores the foundations and evolution of modern corporate fiduciary law in the United States and the United Kingdom. Today US and UK fiduciary law provide very different approaches to the regulation of directorial behaviour. However, as the book shows, the law in both jurisdictions borrowed from the same sources in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English fiduciary and commercial law. The book identifies the shared legal foundations and authorities and explores the drivers of corporate fiduciary law's contemporary divergence. In so doing it challenges the prevailing accounts of corporate legal change and stability in the US and the UK.

Anglo-American Law

Anglo-American Law
Author: Michael T. W. Arnheim
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781616196325

English and American law share a common origin. Yet the differences between them are now greater than the similarities. Anglo-American Law: A Comparison identifies the differences between the two systems of law and their constitutions. From Anglo-Saxon law to Brexit, from the Founders to President Trump, Arnheim compares the English and American legal systems and shows how they differ, particularly in matters of constitutional law, tort, civil and human rights, abortion, codification, freedom of religion, privacy, judicial review, defamation, and more. xxvi, 463 pp.

Law Books in Action

Law Books in Action
Author: Angela Fernandez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-04-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847319238

'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular.

Perversions of Justice

Perversions of Justice
Author: Ward Churchill
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780872864115

Examines the faulty "reasoning" employed to legislate colonial control over North America's indigenous peoples and their lands.