Common Law and Natural Law in America

Common Law and Natural Law in America

From the Puritans to the Legal Realists

Forsyth, Andrew

Cambridge University Press

05/2022

172

Mole

Inglês

9781108701815

15 a 20 dias

242

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1. Puritan natural law: early New England and the colonial colleges; 2. Modern natural law: revolutionaries and republicans; 3. Organizing common law: William Blackstone in America; 4. subsuming natural law into common law: Joseph Story; 5. Law as science: Christopher Columbus Langdell; 6. Breaking with natural law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the legal realists; Epilogue; Index.