Is eating people wrong? : great legal cases and how they shaped the world / Allan C. Hutchinson.
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing, and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2011.
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| Online Access: | EBSCO eBooks |
| Summary: | Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing, and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law, as well as the characters and institutions (lawyers, judges, and courts) that did much of the heavy lifting. By examining the consequences and fallout of these decisions, the book depicts the common law as an experimental, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalizing, and bottom-up process, thereby revealing the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions and shifting demands. Great cases are one way to glimpse the workings of the common law as an untidy but stimulating exercise in human judgment and social accomplishment. --Book Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511782152 0511930852 0511932197 051193355X 0521188512 1282942131 9780511782152 9780511930850 9780511932199 9780511933554 9780521188517 9781282942134 |