Für diesen Artikel ist leider kein Bild verfügbar.

Blackstone and His Critics

Dr Anthony Page, Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2020
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-4029-5 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited well over 10,000 times in American judicial opinions alone. Prominent in recent reassessment of Blackstone and his works, Wilfrid Prest also convened the Adelaide symposia which have now generated two collections of essays: Blackstone and his Commentaries: Biography, Law, History (2009), and Re-Interpreting Blackstone’s Commentaries: A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts (2014).

This third collection focuses on Blackstone's critics and detractors. Leading scholars examine the initial reception of the Commentaries in the context of debates over law, religion and politics in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Having shown Blackstone’s volumes to be a contested work of the Enlightenment, the remaining chapters assess critical responses to Blackstone on family law, the status of women and legal education in Britain and America. While Blackstone and his Commentaries have been widely lauded and memorialised in marble, this volume highlights the extent to which they have also attracted censure, controversy and disparagement.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5099-4029-4 / 1509940294
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-4029-5 / 9781509940295
Zustand	Neuware