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Author British Legal History Conference (23rd : 2017 : University College, London)

Title Networks and connections in legal history / edited by Michael Lobban, London School of Economics and Political Science, Ian Williams, University College London
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 343 pages)
Contents Introduction / Michael Lobban and Ian Williams -- Networks and Influences : Contextualising Personnel and Procedures in the -- Court of Chivalry / Anthony Musson -- Men of law and legal networks in Aberdeen, principally in 1600-1650 / Adelyn Wilson -- Calling Time at the Bar : First women barristers and their networks and -- connections / Judith Bourne -- The Thistle, the Rose, and the Palm : Scottish and English Judges in British East Florida / M. C. Mirow -- 'The Bengal Boiler' : Legal Networks in Colonial Calcutta / Raymond Cocks -- The White Ensign on Land : The Royal Navy and Legal Authority in Early Sierra Leone / Tim Soriano -- A Broker's Advice : Credit Networks and Mortgage Risk in the Eighteenth Century Empire / Julia Rudolph -- Trans-Atlantic connections : The many networks and the enduring legacy of J.P. Benjamin / Catharine MacMillan -- Interpretatio ex aequo et bono : the emergence of equitable interpretation in -- European legal scholarship / Lorenzo Maniscalco -- Shakespeare and the European Ius Commune / R. H. Helmholz -- Law Reporting and Law Making : the Missing Link in Nineteenth-century Tax -- Law / Chantal Stebbings -- John Taylor Coleridge and English Criminal Law / Philip Handler
Summary "This book examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers - from Scotland to East Florida and India - shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how - as with twentieth century feminist campaigns - personal connections could be crucial in pressuring the legislature to institute reform. It explores the transmission of legal ideas and practices from one location to another, across time and space. What happened to those ideas and practices was not predetermined, but when new connections were made, they could assume a new life. In some cases new thinkers made intellectual connections not previously thought of; in others it was the new purposes to which ideas and practices were applied which made them adapt"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "The essays assembled in this collection derive from papers delivered at the twenty third British Legal History conference, held at University College, London in July 2017"--ECIP Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 24, 2020)
Subject Law -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
Law -- English influences -- History -- Congresses
Law -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
Lawyers -- Social networks -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
Law
Law -- English influences
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Lobban, Michael, editor.
Williams, Ian Scott, 1981- editor
LC no. 2020002836
ISBN 9781108859141
1108859143
9781108862936
1108862934