Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights: From Magna Carta to Modernity - Hardcover

 
9781108429238: Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights: From Magna Carta to Modernity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1108429238 ISBN 13: 9781108429238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

While challenges to authority are generally perceived as destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays, with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to legal authority - over time, geographical place, and subject matters both public and private - this volume demonstrates that challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights actually change the existing legal order rather than destroying it. The chapters further explore how the myth of Magna Carta emerged and its role in the pre-modern world; how challenges to authority formed the basis of the recognition of rights in particular areas within England; and how challenges to authority resulted in the recognition of particular rights in the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany. This is a uniquely insightful thematic collection which proposes a new view into the processes of legal change.

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About the Authors

Catharine MacMillan is Professor of Private Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.

Charlotte Smith is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Reading.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108429238
ISBN 13 
9781108429238
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
358
Editor
MacMillan Catharine, Smith Charlotte

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