The Oxford History of the Laws of England: Volume VI: 1483-1558

ISBN-13: 9780198258179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 1120 str.

John Hamilton Baker

Opis

This, the first volume to appear in the landmark new Oxford History of the Laws of England series, covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual change, which profoundly affected the law and its workings.

Recenzje

Despite the mass of scholarship shoe-horned into its pages, great care has been taken that this volume should be reasonably accessible to non-specialists and it is ... an excellent volume.

O autorze

Sir John Baker is Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Legal History at Cambridge from 1988-98, and has been Literary Director of the Selden Society since 1981. He has taught at New York University School of Law as a visiting professor since 1988, and also at University College London, and at Harvard and Yale Universities. He became Honorary Queen's Counsel in 1996, became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, and was made an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.