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The American Common Law Method
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There have been many introductory texts on the common law over the years, but among the more recent Professor Cappalli’s “The American Common Law Method” has been most widely praised. It focuses on the system of judicial precedent, recognized as one of the great achievements of Anglo-American genius, and especially on its development in American jurisprudence since Holmes and Cardozo. It comprehensively details both the theory underlying case law and the methodology… More >>
The American Common Law Method
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Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law & Hereditary Right
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This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment “Questions relative to Hereditary Right,” discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner. As a critique of common law by a great philosopher, the Dialogue should be essential reading for anybody interested in English political thought or legal theory. Crom… More >>
Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law & Hereditary Right
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Punitive Damages: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives
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With the growing literature on the subject of punitive damages, the consensus is that it seems worthwhile and even necessary to discuss, thoroughly and on a comparative basis, the nature, role and suitability of such damages in tort law and private law in general. This book contains reports from selected jurisdictions that explicitly allow the award of punitive damages as well as from jurisdictions which purport (sometimes emphatically) to deny their existence (a… More >>
Punitive Damages: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives
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A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract:
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This first booklength survey of the 800-year evolution of Anglo-American common law contract begins in 12th-century England and extends to contemporary America, focusing on how procedural, economic, intellectual, and social considerations tempered the form of contract law and analyzing the thought of lawyers and judges throughout the period. Covers Plantagenet royal courts in England to contract law in the context of American urban, industrialized society; reviews p… More >>
A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract:
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The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice
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This book updates and significantly extends the first edition published by Springer in 2004. It addresses the social and legal functions of adoption, the changes currently taking place in England & Wales and developments in other common law countries. It identifies themes of commonality and difference in the experience of adoption in a common law context as compared and contrasted with that of civil law countries, other cultures in Asia and with the experience of in… More >>
The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice
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