English Legal Histories

Description

English Legal Histories is an exciting and innovative approach to the study of English law. Written in an accessible style intended for students as well as a broader audience, it takes the reader beyond the narrower confines of legal doctrines and cases, and invites them to consider the myriad contexts within which English law has been shaped: the politics, the economics, the art, the poetry. Reaching from the Reformation through to the age of Reform, it tells stories, the 'histories', of English law. Histories of the constitution and government, of crime and contracts, tort and trespass, property and equity. Of the people who made that law, those who wrote it, and those who suffered it. For it is in the end a human story, of justice and injustice, of success and failure, good luck and bad. The law is full of statutes and instruments, cases and precedent, but its history is full of people and peculiarity. Which is what, of course, makes it so endlessly fascinating.

Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University.

English Legal Histories provides a rich and diverse account of England's legal history across several key areas of law spanning centuries ... an accessible, enlightening and energetic book which should appeal to both legal and non-legal audiences alike. -- Robert Brett Taylor, University of Aberdeen * Edinburgh Law Review * Throughout, Ward has written English Legal Histories with an accessible writing style which is designed for both a student and a broader audience. He takes us beyond the narrower confines of legal doctrines and cases and invites them to consider the myriad contexts within which English law has been shaped. * Elizabeth Taylor and Phillip Taylor MBE, Richmond Green Chambers *