Re-interpreting Blackstone’s Commentaries : a seminal text in national and international contexts

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Edition Details

Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Wilfrid R. Prest
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2014. ©2014
Material: Biography
Type: Book
Other titles: Blackstone’s Commentaries
Reinterpreting Blackstone’s Commentaries
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Short Description

VIII, 245 pages : ILlustrations ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Re-interpreting Blackstone’s Commentaries : a seminal text in national and international contexts is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Publisher: Hart Publishing.
Responsable Person: edited by Wilfrid Prest.
Publication Date: 2014
Location: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 6 editions
First edition Date: 2014
Last edition Date: 2014
General 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.
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KD660
Dewey Code: 340.1092
ISBN: 9781849465380 184946538X
OCLC: 889563423

Main 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.

Summary Note

This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing influence of William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the work’s original publication in the 1760s down to the present.

Re-interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries : a seminal text in national and international contexts

Re-interpreting Blackstone’s Commentaries : a seminal text in national and international contexts