Networks and connections in legal history / edited by Michael Lobban, London School of Economics and Political Science, Ian Williams, University College London.
"This book examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers - from Scotland to East Florida and India - shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how - as w...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
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2020.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "This book examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers - from Scotland to East Florida and India - shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how - as with twentieth century feminist campaigns - personal connections could be crucial in pressuring the legislature to institute reform. It explores the transmission of legal ideas and practices from one location to another, across time and space. What happened to those ideas and practices was not predetermined, but when new connections were made, they could assume a new life. In some cases new thinkers made intellectual connections not previously thought of; in others it was the new purposes to which ideas and practices were applied which made them adapt"-- |
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| Item Description: | "The essays assembled in this collection derive from papers delivered at the twenty third British Legal History conference, held at University College, London in July 2017"--ECIP Introduction. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 343 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1108862934 9781108862936 |