Marie-France Fortin (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Facu

The King Can Do No Wrong

Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability

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Produktbeschreibung

In the first dedicated monograph on the topic, Marie France-Fortin traces the historical evolution of the phrase 'the king can do no wrong' in constitutional and public law to shed new light on our current understanding of crown liability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780198886914
• ISBN-10: 0198886918
• Artikelnr.: 70015845

Autorenporträt

Dr Marie-France Fortin is an Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Ottawa. Educated at Université Laval (LLB), Harvard Law School (LLM), and the University of Cambridge (LLMi, PhD), she served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and worked in public and private practice as a solicitor and barrister before taking up her current position.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Understandings of The King Can Do No Wrong in Legal Thinking and
Heuristic Model of Crown Liability Derived from Them
* 2: The King Can Do No Wrong in the Late Medieval and Tudor Periods
* 3: The King Can Do No Wrong During the Constitutional Struggles of
the Seventeenth Century
* 4: Understandings of The King Can Do No Wrong in Legal Thinking in
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
* 5: Revisiting and Understanding Crown Liability from a Historical
Constitutional Perspective
* 6: The King Can Do No Wrong's Travels and Travails Across the Common
Law World
* Conclusion