Cases on Procedure, Annotated
Author : Edson Read Sunderland
Publisher :
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Pleading
ISBN :
The Annotated Common Law
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2011-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1610279743
Book Description
Decoded, demythed rendition of Holmes' classic study of law and judicial development of rules. "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." Includes 2010 Foreword; extensive, clear annotations by a Tulane law professor woven into The Common Law; footnotes with real numbers; and original page cites. Care in detail, proofreading, notes, and formatting, unlike any version made. As lamented by Holmes' premier biographer in 2006, The Common Law "is very likely the best-known book ever written about American law. But it is a difficult, sometimes obscure book, which today's lawyers and law students find largely inaccessible." No longer. With insertions and simple definitions of the original's language and concepts, this version makes it live for college students (able to "get it," at last, with legal terms explained), plus law students, lawyers, and anyone wanting to understand his great book. No previous edition, even in print, has offered annotations. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. compiled his master work in 1881 from lectures on the origins, reasoning, and import of the common law. It jump-started legal Realism and established law as a pragmatic way to solve problems and make policy, not just a bucket of rules. It has stood the test of time as one of the most important and influential studies of law. This book is interesting for a vast audience, including historians, students, and political scientists. It is also a recommended read before law school or in the 1L year. High quality, fully linked ePub edition from Quid Pro's Legal Legends Series.
A Concise History of the Common Law
Author : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Common law
ISBN : 1584771372
Book Description
Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
Priests of the Law
Author : Thomas J. McSweeney
Publisher :
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0198845456
Book Description
This 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.
Conceptualising Property Law
Author : Yaëll Emerich
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788111842
Book Description
Conceptualising Property Law offers a transsystemic and integrated approach to common law and civil law property. Property law has traditionally been excluded from comparative law analysis, common law and civil law property being deemed irreconcilable. With this book, Ya'll Emerich aims to dispel the myth that comparison between these two systems of property is impossible. By establishing a dialogue between common law and civil law property, it becomes clear that the two legal traditions share common ground in the way that they address legal, cultural, and social issues related to property and wealth.
The Spirit of the Common Law
Author : Roscoe Pound
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 1921
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Common Law of the Workplace
Author : National Academy of Arbitrators
Publisher : BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : 9781570181207
Book Description
In this extraordinary collection by members of the National Academy of Arbitrators, 16 master arbitrators share their years of experience and explain the profession's most widely accepted arbitral principles on common arbitration subjects. You get black-letter statements that summarize important points -- plus extensive commentary and references that enhance your own perspective on practical and theoretical issues. Use this volume to understand and carry on the best traditions of the arbitration profession.
A Nascent Common Law
Author : Frédéric Gilles Sourgens
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004288201
Book Description
In A Nascent Common Law: The Process of Decisionmaking in International Legal Disputes Between States and Foreign Investors Frédéric Gilles Sourgens submits that investor-state dispute resolution relies upon an inductive, common law decisionmaking process, which reveals a necessary plurality of first principles within investor-state dispute resolution. Relying upon, amongst others, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, the book explains how this plurality of first principles does not devolve into arbitrary indeterminacy. A Nascent Common Law provides an alternative account to current theoretical conceptions of investor-state arbitration. It explains that these theories cannot adequately resolve a key empirical challenge: tribunals frequently reach facially inconsistent results on similar questions of law. Sourgens makes an inductive approach, focused on the manner of decisionmaking by tribunals in the context of specific records that can explain this inconsistency.
The Politics of the Common Law
Author : Adam Gearey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135097879
Book Description
The Politics of the Common Law offers a critical introduction to the legal system of England and Wales. Unlike other conventional accounts, this revised and updated second edition presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that contemporary postcolonial common law must be understood as an articulation of human rights and open justice. The book examines the impact of the European Convention and European Union law on the structures and ideologies of the common law and engages with the politics of the rule of law. These themes are read into normative accounts of civil and criminal procedure that stress the importance of due process. The final sections of the book address the reality of civil and criminal procedure in the light of recent civil unrest in the UK and the growing privatisation of public services. The book questions whether it is possible to find a balance between the requirements of economics and the demands of justice.
A Jurisprudence of Movement
Author : Olivia Barr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317531833
Book Description
Law moves, whether we notice or not. Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite various ways the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions of law, movement and its materialities are too often overlooked. This book addresses this oversight, and it does so through an attention to the materialities of legal movement. Paying attention to how law moves across different colonial and contemporary spaces, this book reveals there is a problem with common law’s place. Primarily set in the postcolonial context of Australia – although ranging beyond this nationalised topography, both spatially and temporally – this book argues movement is fundamental to the very terms of common law’s existence. How, then, might we move well? Explored through examples of walking and burial, this book responds to the challenge of how to live with a contemporary form of colonial legal inheritance by arguing we must take seriously the challenge of living with law, and think more carefully about its spatial productions, and place-making activities. Unsettling place, this book returns the question of movement to jurisprudence.
