The Common Law
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13:
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A Common Law for the Age of Statutes
Author: Guido Calabresi
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1584770406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalabresi complains that we are "choking on statutes" and proposes a restoration of the courts to their common law function. From a series of lectures given by Calabresi as part of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures delivered at Harvard Law School in March 1977. "In his most recent publication, A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, based on the Oliver Wendell Holmes lectures he delivered at Harvard in March of 1977, Professor Calabresi has brought his ample juristic talents to bear on a foundational problem of the legal and democratic process. He has produced a monograph that in its quality, timeliness and provocativeness is likely to stand alongside the seminal works of Ronald Dworkin and Grant Gilmore." --Allan C. Hutchinson and Derek Morgan, 82 Columbia Law Review (1982) 1752. GUIDO CALABRESI [b. 1932] is Sterling Emeritus Professor of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He was Dean of Yale Law School from 1985-1994 and became a United States Circuit Judge in 1994. He is also the author of The Costs of Accidents (1970), Tragic Choices (1978) and Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes, and the Law (1985).
Common-law Liberty
Author: James Reist Stoner
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an ere as morally confused as ours, Stoner argues, we at least ought to know what we've abandoned or suppressed in the name of judicial activism and the modern rights-oriented Constitution. Having lost our way, perhaps the common law, in its original sense, provides a way back, a viable alternative to the debilitating relativism of our current age.
The Nature of the Common Law
Author: Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1991-10
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780674604810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommon law rules predominate in some areas of law, such as torts and contracts, and are extremely important in other areas, such as corporations. Nevertheless, it has been unclear what principles courts use—or should use—in establishing common law rules. In this lucid book, Melvin Eisenberg develops the principles that govern this process.
Priests of the Law
Author: Thomas J. McSweeney
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0198845456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the development of legal professionalism in the early English common law, with specific reference to the 13th-century treatise known as Bracton and to its likely authors.
The Common Law Inside the Female Body
Author: Anita Bernstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1107177812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.
A Concise History of the Common Law
Author: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 828
ISBN-13: 1584771372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield
Author: James Oldham
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005-12-15
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0807864005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, 1756-1788, was the dominant judicial force behind these developments. In this abridgment of his two-volume book, The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, James Oldham presents the fundamentals of the English common law during this period, with a detailed description of the operational features of the common law courts. This work includes revised and updated versions of the historical and analytical essays that introduced the case transcriptions in the original volumes, with each chapter focusing on a different aspect of the law. While considerable scholarship has been devoted to the eighteenth-century English criminal trial, little attention has been given to the civil side. This book helps to fill that gap, providing an understanding of the principal body of substantive law with which America's founding fathers would have been familiar. It is an invaluable reference for practicing lawyers, scholars, and students of Anglo-American legal history.
Statutory and Common Law Interpretation
Author: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0199756147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKent Greenwalt's second volume on aspects of legal interpretation analyzes statutory and common law interpretation, suggesting that multiple factors are important for each, and that the relation between them influences both. The book argues against any simple "textualism," claiming that even reader understanding of statutes depends partly on perceived intent. In respect to common law interpretation, use of reasoning by analogy is defended and any simple dichotomy of "holding" and "dictum" is resisted.
The Expansion of the Common Law
Author: Frederick Pollock
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015961319
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