Is eating people wrong? : great legal cases and how they shaped the world / Allan C. Hutchinson.
2011
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Title
Is eating people wrong? : great legal cases and how they shaped the world / Allan C. Hutchinson.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
In praise of great cases : the big, the bad and the goodly
Is eating people wrong? : the law and lore of the sea
Bearing witness : in support of the rule of law
In the hunt : power, property, and possession
Shades of Brown : a constitutional catharsis
A snail in a bottle : nature, neighbors, and negligence
An aboriginal title : the lie and law of the land
Grinding at the mill : putting limits on agreements
Of crimes and cautions : the rights and rites of investigation
Coming up for air : the common law at 2010.
Is eating people wrong? : the law and lore of the sea
Bearing witness : in support of the rule of law
In the hunt : power, property, and possession
Shades of Brown : a constitutional catharsis
A snail in a bottle : nature, neighbors, and negligence
An aboriginal title : the lie and law of the land
Grinding at the mill : putting limits on agreements
Of crimes and cautions : the rights and rites of investigation
Coming up for air : the common law at 2010.
Summary
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law as well as the characters and institutions (lawyers, judges and courts) that did much of the heavy lifting. By examining the consequences and fallout of these decisions, the book depicts the common law as an experimental, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalizing and bottom-up process, thereby revealing the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions and shifting demands. Great cases are one way to glimpse the workings of the common law as an untidy but stimulating exercise in human judgment and social accomplishment.
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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511782152 (ebook)
9781107000377 (hardback)
9780521188517 (paperback)
9781107000377 (hardback)
9780521188517 (paperback)
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