Common Law and Natural Law in America: From the Puritans to the Legal Realists

ISBN-13: 9781108476973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 168 str.

Andrew Forsyth

Opis

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law's varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

Recenzje

'… provides an excellent overview of how natural law and common law have been intertwined throughout American history.' Mark David Hall, Journal of Law and Religion

Spis treści

1. Puritan natural law: early New England and the colonial colleges; 2. Modern natural law: revolutionaries and republicans; 3. Organizing common law: William Blackstone in America; 4. subsuming natural law into common law: Joseph Story; 5. Law as science: Christopher Columbus Langdell; 6. Breaking with natural law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the legal realists; Epilogue; Index.