Common law books

Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law is the first broad-based study of the law governing the giving and revocation...  Read More >>

Lawyer, politician, poet, teacher and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in 18th century public life,...  Read More >>

What does it mean when civil lawyers and common lawyers think differently? In Charting the Divide between Common...  Read More >>

The noted legal scholar Richard Epstein advocates a much smaller federal government, arguing that our over-regulated...  Read More >>

The book examines the protection of property rights in chattels through the law of torts, focusing on the four actions...  Read More >>

The English common lawyers wielded their greatest influence in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries....  Read More >>

In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways...  Read More >>

"A SEMINAL WORK ON CRIMINAL LAW Considered one of the four major law books of the eighteenth century by Holdsworth...  Read More >>

In 2009 the new UK Supreme Court took on the judicial functions of the House of Lords. In this book a group of...  Read More >>

A biographical dictionary that provides authoritative factual data about every judge in England who served from...  Read More >>

A biographical dictionary that provides authoritative factual data about every judge in England who served from...  Read More >>

"Schwartz provides a masterly exposition of administrative law through a comparative study of the French droit administratif,...  Read More >>

In the wake of yet another spree killing in the UK, the authors ask: should our gun laws be made any tighter? The...  Read More >>

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Discusses the conditions in political, economic, social, and religious thought that have contributed to the genesis...  Read More >>

The volume is a thoroughly revised edition of the author's book on German Administrative Law which was first published...  Read More >>

"The Best Edition of this Classic History: A Comprehensive Legal History of England from the Anglo-Saxon Period...  Read More >>

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.  Read More >>

Originally published: London, J. Butterworth and Son, 1820.  Read More >>

This insightful book explores the acute challenges presented by the ‘internationalisation’ of law, a trend that...  Read More >>

"Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. compiled this master work in 1881 from his famous lectures in Boston on the origins,...  Read More >>

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