The Anglo-American legal heritage : introductory materials / Daniel R. Coquillette.

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2004.

2nd ed.

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Law -- History.

Law -- United States -- History.

1. The glory that was Rome

2. The Anglo-Saxon period --3. The Norman-Angevin administrators: birth of the modern state

4. A brief introduction to English feudalism

5. Courts of record

6. Equity

7. Specialized courts of the renaissance: the 'civilians', the admiralty, and the other conciliar courts

8. Appeal

9. The birth of the English legal profession and English legal education

10. Law reports, passion and judges: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, and the intellectual seeds of the civil war

11. Lawmaking and revolution

12. 'Law and order' in eighteenth century England

13. The nineteenth century: legal instrumentalism, codification and utilitarianism

14. The twentieth century; the 'new jurisprudence', 'critical legal studies' and the 'post-liberal society'

15. Conclusion: law and history.

Includes index of names, places and technical terms.

9781594600388

xx, 642 p. : ill.