Legal theory and legal history /
edited by Maksymilian Del Mar, Michael Lobban.
- xxxv, 572 pages ; 25 cm.
- The library of essays in contemporary legal theory ; 2nd series, v. IV .
- Library of essays in contemporary legal theory ; 2nd series, v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references and name index.
The common law and legal theory / A.W.B. Simpson -- Why is Anglo-American jurisprudence unhistorical? / Morton J. Horwitz -- Classification of private law in relation to historical evidence : description, prescription, and conceptual analysis / Stephen Waddams -- Interpretive legal theory and the academic lawyer / Allan Beever and Charles Rickett. -- What is legal history a history of? / David Ibbetson -- Reason in the development of the common law / S.F.C. Milsom -- Common law reasoning and the foundations of modern private law / Michael Lobban -- The common-law status of colonies and Aboriginal'rights' : how lawyers and historians treat the past / P.G. McHugh -- Reflections on'doing' legal history / John Baker -- Toward an integrative jurisprudence : politics, morality, history / Harold J. Berman -- Historical jurisprudence / Geoffrey MacCormack -- The tasks of historical jurisprudence / Peter Stein -- Science, law and history : historical jurisprudence and modern legal theory / Geoffrey Samuel -- Critical legal histories / Robert W. Gordon -- After critical legal history : scope, scale, structure / Christopher Tomlins -- J. Willard Hurst and the common law tradition in American legal historiography / Robert W. Gordon -- Theory and practice in law and history : a prologue to the study of the relationship between law and economy from a socio-historical perspective / David Sugarman -- Pigs and positivism / Hendrik Hartog -- Law'in' and'as' history : the common law in the American polity, 1790-1900 / Kunal M. Parker -- How autonomous is law? / Christopher Tomlins.