History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0735562903 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is a great achievement, a major step forward in the evolution of course materials for the American law school. Langbein, et al. Teachers of its history to students whilst at the same time maintaining and transmitting high scholarly standards. Sheppard, William H. This remarkable collection of materials is both an outstanding work of scholarship in its own right, and as attractive and thoroughly usable a teaching tool as has ever been published for any subject studied in American law schools. Enfield Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law . use modern educational coursebook design to emphasize primary materials, carry student attention forward, and provoke student interest through graphics and images that enhance the text. Though I have my favorites from the past, this year, I adopted Langbein, Lerner, and Smith's History of the Common
Langbein is the Sterling Professor of Law & Legal History at Yale Law School. . John H
"The standard in its field" according to Timothy Hoff. This is now the standard one volume work on English legal history. It is an expensive but beautiful treasure and a delight to read. It is unfortunate that it is too costly to assign as a course book.
The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. Concise summaries, manageable extracts, clear organization, and a detailed Teacher's Manual consistently support your teaching. Considerable attention is devoted to distinctively American developments, such as the elective bench, and the influence of race relations on the law of criminal procedure. Other major subjects of this book include the development of the legal profession, from the serjeants, barristers, and attorneys of medieval times down to the transnational megafirms of twenty-first century practice; the literature of the law, especially law reports and treatises, from the Year Books and Bracton down to the American state reports and today's electronic services; and legal education, from the founding of the Inns of Court to the emergence and growth of university law schools in the United States. Two great themes dominate the book: (1) the origins, development, and pervasive influence of the jury system and judge/jury relations across eight centuries of Anglo-American civil and criminal justice; and (2) the law/equity division, from the emergence of the Court of Chancery in the fourteenth century down through equity's conquest of common law in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.