Law and History

Current Legal Issues 2003 Volume 6
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926414-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 886 g

Reihe: Current Legal Issues

Law and History contains a collection of essays by prominent legal historians, which explore the ways in which history has been used by lawyers past and present to answer legal questions. In common with earlier volumes in the Current Legal Issues series, it seeks both a theoretical and methodological focus.

This volume covers a broad range of topics, from a discussion of the nature of norms in the middle ages to the role of war crimes trials in the twentieth century. It includes wide-ranging historiographical discussions, which examine the nature and aims of the legal historian, as well as contributions which explore the methodology and aims of writers such as Coke, Maine, Weber, Montesquieu, and Kames, who sought to use historical models to explain law. A number of contributions examine
developments in legal doctrine, particularly in the nineteenth century, including developments in the law of contract, administrative law, and perjury. These raise important questions about the nature of the legal categorizations which developed in that era. Law and History also includes a collection of
contributons on the use of history in twentieth century trials, including the Nuremberg trials, the trial of the Gang of Four, and trials arising from the events in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Andrew

Lobban, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Lewis is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of London, and has worked in the Faculty of Laws at University College London since 1973.

Andrew Lobban is currently Reader in Law at Queen Mary, University of London, and has previously worked at St. John's College Oxford (1988-91), Durham University (1991-7), and Brunel University (1997-2000).