Research Catalog

Title

Law and history / edited by Andrew Lewis and Michael Lobban.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lewis, A. D. E.
• Lobban, Michael

Description

xxii, 458 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This title contains a broad range of essays by prominent legal historians, which explore the ways in which history has been used by lawyers.

Series Statement

Current legal issues 2003, v. 6

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Current legal issues v. 6.

Subject

• Law > History > Congresses
• Law > England > Congresses
• Law > Historiography > Congresses
• Law > Philosophy > Congresses

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Papers originally presented at the sixth Current legal issues colloquium, held in the Faculty of Laws, University College London, July 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the tools and the tasks of the legal historian / Michael Lobban -- What is legal history a history of? / David Ibbetson -- Norms and legal argument before 1150 / Paul Hyams -- Myth, mistake, invention? Excavating the foundations of the English legal tradition / Anthony Musson -- Montesquieu between law and history / Andrew Lewis -- The ambition of Lord Kames's equity / Michael Lobban -- Law, history, and memorable sentences / Raymond Cocks -- Henry Sumner Maine's grand tour: Roman law in ancient law / Carl Landauer -- Law and 'tradition': Henry Maine and the theoretical origins of indirect rule / Karuna Mantena -- Max Weber and comparative legal history / David d'Avray -- Weber and the ideal of Roman law / Kaius Tuori -- Law, history, and the social sciences: intellectual traditions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe / Joshua Getzler -- Classification of private law in relation to historical evidence: description, prescription, and conceptual analysis / Stephen Waddams -- Mistaken arguments: the role of argument in the development of a doctrine of contractual mistake in nineteenth-century England / Catharine MacMillan -- 'Officialism': law, bureaucracy, and ideology in late Victorian England / Chantel Stebbings -- Perjurious Albion: perjury prosecutions and the Victorian trial / Wendie Ellen Schneider -- Unsettling accounts: methodological issues within the reconstruction of the role of a US intelligence agency within the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials / Michael Salter -- The Holocaust, history, and legal memory / Lawrence Douglas -- 'Settling accounts': law as history in the Trial of the Gang of Four / Alexander Cook -- Law and chaos: legal argument as a non-linear process / Eileen M. O'Sullivan.

ISBN

0199264147

OCLC

56387223

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library