Common Law
Commentaries on the Laws of England
This book stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent.
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Evolution and the Common Law
This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law\'s development.
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An Index to Common Law Festschriften
This is the first ever index of contributions to common law Festschriften and fills a serious bibliographic gap in the literature of the common law.
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The Unity of Public Law
This book tackles the important topic of the relationship between three parts of the public law regime in a common law jurisdiction: the common law of judicial review or the unwritten constitution, the written constitution and public international law.
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Retroactivity and the Common Law
Claims that when a court considers whether to develop or change a common law rule the retroactive effect of doing so should explicitly be considered and, informed by the common law`s approach to statutory construction, presumptively be resisted.
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Environmental Protection and the Common Law
Within the broad framework of the common law of tort, the torts of nuisance and the rule in \"Rylands v.
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