Judges and judging in the history of the common law and civil law : from antiquity to modern times /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:Judges -- History.
Judicial process -- History.
Judicial review -- History.
Courts -- History.
LAW -- Courts.
Courts.
Judges.
Judicial process.
Judicial review.
Common law
Gewohnheitsrecht
Privatrecht
Rechtsprechung
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11829823
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Other authors / contributors:Brand, Paul (Paul A.)
Getzler, Joshua.
ISBN:9781139224949
1139224948
9781139221511
1139221515
9781139093613
1139093614
9781107018976
1107018978
9781139218429
9781107542549
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of law-making in courts, that is the focus of inquiry. Contributors describe and analyse aspects of judicial activity, in the widest possible legal and social contexts, across two millennia. The essays cover English common law, continental customary law and ius commune, and aspects of the common law system in the British Empire. The volume is innovative in its approach to legal history. None of the essays offer straight doctrinal exegesis; none take refuge in old-fashioned judicial biography. The volume is a selection of the best papers from the 18th British Legal History Conference"--
"More than two hundred legal historians, from every corner of the globe, met in Oxford at the Eighteenth British Legal History Conference in early July 2007 to hear and present papers on the history of "judges and judging". A selection of the papers presented at the conference has now been revised and edited to form the chapters of this volume. Perhaps the theme of the conference and of this publication needs some initial explanation. The Legal Realists of the 1920s and 1930s rightly questioned the pre-eminence given to the study of decision-making in the courts in American legal education, and similar ideas have entered British and Commonwealth legal education in the past generation; the utterances of judges are not taken as the sum of, or even the core of, the law. But this is hardly news for legal historians. They have long been effortless, even naively unselfconscious, Realists, always concerned to understand the making of the law within the context of its time, with due attention to the society in which law is embedded and the shifting mentalities of professionals and other players in the legal system"--
Other form:Print version: Judges and judging in the history of the common law and civil law. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107018976