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Legal Theory and Legal History: Volume IV
The papers selected for this volume explore issues in the study of historical jurisprudence. The topics range from the challenge to legal positivism from the perspective of the history of the common law, to the latest methodological debates in socio-historical jurisprudence. Taken together.
| Author(s) | By Michael Lobban. Edited by, Maksymilian Del Mar. |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 608 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 15 Oct 2014 |
| Availability | Available |
The papers selected for this volume explore issues in the study of historical jurisprudence. The topics range from the challenge to legal positivism from the perspective of the history of the common law, to the latest methodological debates in socio-historical jurisprudence. Taken together.
Contents: Introduction. Part I Challenging the Thought of the Present: The common law and legal theory, A.W.B. Simpson; Why is Anglo-American jurisprudence unhistorical?; Morton J. Horwitz; Classification of private law in relation to historical evidence:
Maksymilian Del Mar is Reader in Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London, UK and Michael Lobban is Professor of Legal History at the London School of Economics, UK.
