Re-interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries : a seminal text in national and international contexts / edited by Wilfrid Prest.
"This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing influence of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the work's original publication in the 1870s down to the present. Contributions by cultural and literary scholars, and intellectual and legal hist...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Portland, Oregon :
Hart Publishing,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Hart Publishing Law ebooks |
| Summary: | "This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing influence of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the work's original publication in the 1870s down to the present. Contributions by cultural and literary scholars, and intellectual and legal historians trace the manner in which this truly seminal text has established its authority well beyond the author's native shores or his own limited lifespan. In the first section, 'Words and Visions', Kathryn Temple, Simon Stern, Cristina S Martinez and Michael Meehan discuss the Commentaries' aesthetic and literary qualities as factors contributing to the work's unique status in Anglo-American legal culture. The second group of essays traces the nature and dimensions of Blackstone' s impact in various jurisdictions outside England, namely Quebec (Michael Morin), Louisiana and the United States more generally (John W Cairns and Stephen M Sheppard), North Carolina (John V Orth) and Australasia (Wilfred Prest). Finally Horst Dippel, Paul Haliday and Ruth Paley examine aspects of Blackstone's influential constitutional and political ideas, while Jessie Allen concludes the volume with a personal account of 'Reading Blackstone in the Twenty-First Century and the Twenty-First Century through Blackstone'. This volume is a sequel to the well-received collection Blackstone and his Commentaries: Biography, Law, History (Hart Publishing, 2009)"--Page i. |
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| Item Description: | "Derived from papers presented at a symposium convened at the University of Adelaide on 6 December 2012, together with additional chapters written after the event by John Orth and the editor."--Preface. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1782254609 9781782254607 1474202098 9781474202091 1782254595 9781782254591 |