Research Catalog

Title

The Future of the common law.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1937.

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Additional Authors

• Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964.
• Harvard Law School.
• Conference on the Future of the Common Law (1936 : Harvard University)

Description

x, 247 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Harvard tercentenary publications

Uniform Title

Harvard tercentenary publications.

Subject

• Common law > Congresses

Note

• "The Harvard law school 'Conference on the Future of the Common Law' was held in ... Cambridge, on August 19-21, 1936, as one of the symposia which formed part of the celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of Harvard College."--Pref.

Contents

What is the common law? / by Roscoe Pound -- The common law and the civil law in the British commonwealth of nations / by Sir M.S. Amos. Remarks / by J.H. Wigmore and W.C. Van Vleck -- The common law in its old home / by Lord Wright of Durley -- The common law in the United States / by H.F. Stone. Remarks / by O.W. Branch, W.D. Lewis and H.F. Goodrich -- The common law in Canada / by H.H. Davis -- The common law in Ireland / by Henry Hanna. Remarks / by W.E. Treanor and H.U. Sims -- The spirit of the common law / by F.E. Crane -- Appendix: The greeting from the Association of Legal Science of the Keiogijuku University, of Tokyo, Japan, is here reproduced.

LCCN

37021517

OCLC

• ocm02697634
• SCSB-4315946

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries