Common law and natural law in America from the Puritans to the legal realists
"Speaking to today's flourishing conversations on both law, morality, and religion, and the religious foundations of law, politics, and society, Common Law and Natural Law in America is an ambitious four-hundred-year narrative and fresh re-assessment of the varied American interactions of...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press
2019.
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Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Law and Christianity. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39776037*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.