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Author:   Dr Anthony Page (Australia) ,  Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781509940295

ISBN 10:   1509940294
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   03 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Rationalising the Common Law: Blackstone and His Predecessors Michael Lobban 2. The ‘Least Repulsive’ Work on a ‘Repulsive Subject’: Jeremy Bentham on William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England Philip Schofield 3. Blackstone, Expositor and Censor of Law Both Made and Found Jessie Allen 4. William Blackstone, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Winchester: The Case for an Oxford Enlightenment Ian Doolittle 5. Rational Dissent and Blackstone’s Commentaries Anthony Page 6. Blackstone, Parliamentary Sovereignty and his Irish Critics Ultán Gillen 7. Blackstone, Family Law and the Exclusion of the Half Blood in Inheritance Tim Stretton 8. Blackstone and Women Carolyn Steedman 9. Professing Law in the Shadow of the Commentaries David Lieberman 10. Hammond’s Blackstone and the Historical School of American Jurisprudence David M Rabban 11. ‘A Very Narrowing Effect Upon Our Profession’: A Progressive Jurist Confronts Blackstone John V Orth 12. Blackstone’s Posthumous Reputation Wilfrid Prest

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The gap in existing scholarship that is handsomely addressed in this volume is a critical analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries and the uses to which they have been put ... In promoting a critical and informed view of the Commentaries, Blackstone and His Critics provides important intellectual stimulus to modern readers. -- Matthew Stubbs, Adelaide Law School * Comparative Legal History *

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Anthony Page is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Tasmania. Wilfrid Prest is Emeritus Professor of History and of Law at the University of Adelaide.

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