The Evolution of Law
Author | : Alan Watson |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1989-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801839405 |
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Author | : Alan Watson |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1989-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801839405 |
Author | : Laurence Claus |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199735093 |
Why do people consult the law? Why do we consult lawyers? Law's Evolution and Human Understanding articulates a fresh conception of law that builds on Oliver Wendell Holmes' celebrated insights concerning law's predictive potential. The book considers important implications of this new understanding for how we individually make moral choices, how we read law, and some of the many other ways that law affects our lives.
Author | : Allan C. Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2005-04-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781139444934 |
This book offers a radical challenge to accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the common law's history. Offering original readings of Charles Darwin's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, the book shows that law is a rhetorical activity that can only be properly appreciated in its historical and political context; tradition and transformation are locked in a mutually reinforcing but thoroughly contingent embrace. In contrast to the dewy-eyed offerings of much contemporary work, it demonstrates that, like life, law is an organic process (i.e., events are the products of functional and localized causes) rather than a miraculous one (i.e., events are the result of some grand plan or intervention). In short, common law is a perpetual work-in-progress - evanescent, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalising, and bottom-up.
Author | : Charles Rembar |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1504015665 |
National Book Award Finalist: “A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman” (The New Yorker). What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America’s legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment? In The Law of the Land, Charles Rembar examines these and many other topics, illustrating the surprisingly entertaining history of US law. Best known for his passionate efforts to protect literature, including Lady Chatterley’s Lover, from censorship laws, Rembar offers an exciting look at the democratic judicial system that will appeal to lawyers and laymen alike. From the dark days of medieval England, when legal disputes were settled by duel, through recent paradigm shifts in the interpretation and application of the legal code, The Law of the Land is a compelling and informative history of the rules and regulations we so often take for granted.
Author | : Anthony Chase |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781565845169 |
According to Anthony Chase, American law has undergone a series of radial transformations that correspond to four broad periods of American history: precapitalist, capitalist, state capitalist, and global capitalist. Laws may be written down in black and white, but as economic and social history unfold, Chase argues, the spirit of the law slips quietly from the letter, leaving room for interpretation. This gray space is where legal analysis and debate take place - and legal institutions develop. Drawing on an impressive range of sources - from classic texts by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels, to Norman Mailer lectures and the critical legal studies theory of Morton Horwitz - Law and History explores what the author calls "the intriguing mystery of how law and history fit together." How precisely have long-term economic cycles influenced American legal doctrine? How have movements in U.S. social history shaped the development of our legal institutions?
Author | : Alan Watson |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780631142980 |
Author | : Alan Watson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003-05-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0801877083 |
In The Evolution of Western Private Law, renowned legal scholar Alan Watson presents a comprehensive overview of legal change in the Western world. Watson explains why and how such change occurs in mature systems, in underdeveloped systems, and when legal systems of different levels of sophistication and from different societal roots—such as those of the Romans and of Germanic tribes—come into contact. Originally intended as a second edition of the author's widely acclaimed The Evolution of Law (1985), this expanded edition has been completely restructured with more than double the number of examples. The result is a work that incorporates all the ideas that Watson has put forward during his twenty-five years studying comparative law and the development of legal systems, combining a remarkable range of sources with superb insight.
Author | : Henry Wilson Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
"Observations by the late Senator John J. Ingalls on law, government and biography."--T.p.
Author | : W Mark Ormrod |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349270040 |
The importance of the fourteenth century for the development of English law has long been recognised. The shocks and challenges of that period - the murder of the incompetent Edward II, Edward III's ever escalating military demands for the war in France and the unparalleled disaster of the Black Death - gave English society a trauma that found its ultimate expression in Lollardy and the Peasants' Revolt. Out of this ferment came the evolution of a system of justice still substantially recognisable today. This key theme for students of late medieval England has often been made needlessly difficult by the rarefied nature of most books available on the subject. The aim of this book is to present in lucid and approachable terms the main outline of the debate and the different schools of thought, and to suggest the best ways by which students can understand a crucial subject and how this helps illuminate many other aspects of English society during the reigns of Edward II, Edward III and Richard II.
Author | : E.F. Oeser |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401715025 |
This work for the first time brings together case law and law based on norms. It offers the reader a survey and a new explanation of evolutionary emergence of social contracts and constitutions in the European history, and should help to build a bridge between 'two cultures', science and humanities. It is addressed to philosophers of law, historians of law, theorists of science and social scientists.