Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights: From Magna Carta to Modernity

Author:   Catharine MacMillan (King's College London) ,  Charlotte Smith (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   361
Publication Date:   02 January 2020
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Author:   Catharine MacMillan (King's College London) ,  Charlotte Smith (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.30cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781108453363


ISBN 10:   1108453368
Pages:   361
Publication Date:   02 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Introduction Catharine MacMillan; Part I. Magna Carta, Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights in England: 1. Magna Carta: the emergence of the myth John Baker; 2. Benefit of clergy and the authority of Magna Carta Margaret McGlynn; 3. How to get rid of a king: lawyering the Revolution of 1399 David Seipp; 4. Magna Carta and the fragmented authorities of the later Middle Ages Anthony Musson; 5. Revolution principles and the revolution bench Mike Macnair; Part II. Broader Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights in England: 6. Magna Carta Clauses 4 and 5 and the problem of account Joshua Getzler; 7. Some effects of war on the law in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England James Oldham; 8. Tax, freedom and social expectations: fiscal impact on the built environment in nineteenth-century England Chantal Stebbings; Part III. Magna Carta, Challenges to Authority and the Recognition (and Rejection) of Rights beyond England: 9. The Magna Carta in the German discourse about English constitutional law between the eighteenth and the early twentieth century Andreas Thier; 10. A Magna Carta for the world? The constitutional protection of foreign subjects in the age of revolution Daniel Hulsebosch; 11. 'The state of slavery': the slave, grace, and the rise of pro-slavery constitutionalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world Patricia Hagler Minter; 12. The Royal Proclamation of 1763: an indigenous Magna Carta's rough ride in British Columbia Hamar Foster; 13. 'Law: challenges to authority and the recognition of rights': examples from British India Raymond Cocks; 14. 'Unfortunate necessities of warfare?': Australia's national security regulations and the right to free speech during World War I Diane Kirkby.

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'... the book makes a number of insightful and novel contributions to scholarship both on Magna Carta itself and its legacy ... of interest and relevance to contemporary lawyers both public and private. The book should also be additionally praised for not being jurisdictionally limited to England ...' Robert Brett Taylor, Comparative Legal History '... the book makes a number of insightful and novel contributions to scholarship both on Magna Carta itself and its legacy ... of interest and relevance to contemporary lawyers both public and private. The book should also be additionally praised for not being jurisdictionally limited to England ...' Robert Brett Taylor, Comparative Legal History


'… the book makes a number of insightful and novel contributions to scholarship both on Magna Carta itself and its legacy … of interest and relevance to contemporary lawyers both public and private. The book should also be additionally praised for not being jurisdictionally limited to England …' Robert Brett Taylor, Comparative Legal History


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Catharine MacMillan is Professor of Private Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Charlotte Smith is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Reading.

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