Re-interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries

a seminal text in national and international contexts

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Re-interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries

a seminal text in national and international contexts

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Hart Publishing
Language
English
Pages
245

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Table of Contents

Blackstone's 'stutter' : the (anti) performance of the Commentaries -- Kathryn Temple
William Blackstone : courtroom dramatist? -- Simon Stern
Blackstone as draughtsman : picturing the law -- Cristina S. Martinez
Blackstone's Commentaries : England's legal georgic? -- Michael Meehan
Blackstone in the bayous : inscribing slavery in the Louisiana Digest of 1808 -- John W. Cairns
Legal jambalaya -- Stephen M. Sheppard
Blackstone and the birth of Quebec's distinct legal culture 1765-1867 -- Michel Morin
Blackstone's ghost : law and legal education in North Carolina -- John V. Orth
Antipodean Blackstone -- Wilfrid Prest
Blackstone's king -- Paul D. Halliday
Modern Blackstone : the king's two bodies, the Supreme Court and the President -- Ruth Paley
Blackstone's Commentaries and the origins of modern constitutionalism -- Horst Dippel
Reading Blackstone in the twenty-first century and the twenty-first century through Blackstone -- Jessie Allen.

Edition Notes

"Derived from papers presented at a symposium convened at the University of Adelaide on 6 December 2012, together with additional chapters written after the event by John Orth and the editor."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Oxford, Portland, Oregon
Other Titles
Blackstone's Commentaries

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
340.1092
Library of Congress
KD660 .R45 2014, KD660.R45 2014, KD660 .R4 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 245 pages
Number of pages
245

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31213109M
Internet Archive
reinterpretingbl0000unse
ISBN 10
184946538X
ISBN 13
9781849465380
LCCN
2014430706
OCLC/WorldCat
889563423

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