Author: Maurice Eugen Lang

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 158477620X

Lang analyzes efforts made in the United Kingdom and the United States to replace or modify the common law with codes since the origins of codification in the nineteenth century. Lang is especially interested in the tension between written codes, which are characteristic of continental law, and the common law, which is grounded in custom. Since its publication in 1924, this book has been cited often in articles dealing with codes and comparative law.