Collected Papers on English Legal History 3 Volume Set - Hardcover

Baker, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107020433 ISBN 13: 9781107020436

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Over the last forty years, Sir John Baker has written on most aspects of English legal history, and this collection of his writings includes many papers that have been widely cited. Providing points of reference and foundations for further research, the papers cover the legal profession, the inns of court and chancery, legal education, legal institutions, legal literature, legal antiquities, public law and individual liberty, criminal justice, private law (including contract, tort and restitution) and legal history in general. An introduction traces the development of some of the research represented by the papers, and cross-references and new endnotes have been added. A full bibliography of the author's works is also included.

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Book Description:

Over the last forty years, Sir John Baker has written on most aspects of English legal history, especially on the legal profession, its learning and the core principles of the common law. This collection of his writings includes many papers that have been widely cited.

About the Author:

Sir John Baker taught at the University of Cambridge from 1971 to 2011, latterly as Downing Professor of the Laws of England. He also served for thirty years as Literary Director of the Selden Society and was knighted for services to legal history in 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107020433
• ISBN 13: 9781107020436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1664