Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer - Softcover

Bilder, Mary; Marcus, Maeva; Newmyer, R. Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107666627 ISBN 13: 9781107666627

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Blackstone in America explores the creative process of transplantation - the way in which American legislators and judges refashioned the English common law inheritance to fit the republican political culture of the new nation. With current scholarship returning to focus on the transformation of Anglo-American law to "American" law, Professor Kathryn Preyer's lifelong study of the constitutional and legal culture of the early American republic has acquired new relevance and a wider audience. The collection includes Professor Preyer's work on criminal law, the early national judiciary, and the history of the book. All nine of Professor Preyer's important and award-winning essays are easily accessible in this volume, with new introductions by three leading scholars of early American law.

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Book Description:

Blackstone in America explores the creative process of transplantation - the way in which American legislators and judges refashioned the English common law inheritance to fit the republican political culture of the new nation. All nine of Professor Preyer's important and award-winning essays are easily accessible in this volume, with new introductions by three leading scholars of early American law.

About the Author:

Mary Sarah Bilder is currently a Professor at Boston College Law School. She is the author of The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and Empire, which won the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society, awarded by the American Historical Association. She also serves on the editorial boards of Law and History Review, Journal of Legal Education, and New England Quarterly.

Maeva Marcus is currently Director of the Institute for Constitutional Studies and a Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. She is the author of Truman and the Steel Seizure Case and an editor of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800 (8 volumes), as well as an editor of and contributor to Origins of the Federal Judiciary: Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789 and a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.

R. Kent Newmyer is currently Professor of Law and History at the University of Connecticut Law School and a Distinguished Alumni Professor, emeritus, at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic (1985), which won the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society, awarded by the American Historical Association, as well as the Silver Gavel Award, awarded by the American Bar Association for the Supreme Court. He also wrote John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (2001), which received the Francis Landry Award from Louisiana State University Press, in addition to an award from the State Library of Virginia for the best non-fiction book of the year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107666627
• ISBN 13: 9781107666627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302