Allan C. Hutchinson

Is Eating People Wrong? (eBook, ePUB)

Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511853371
• Artikelnr.: 52823993

Autorenporträt

Allan C. Hutchinson is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, Toronto and a widely recognized leading law scholar. In 2004, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2006 he was named as a Distinguished Research Professor of York University. Hutchinson has authored and/or edited sixteen books, most recently The Province of Jurisprudence Democratized and Evolution and the Common Law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. In praise of great cases
the big, the bad and the goodly; 2. Is eating people wrong?
the law and lore of the sea; 3. Bearing witness
in support of the rule of law; 4. In the hunt
power, property, and possession; 5. Shades of brown
a constitutional catharsis; 6. A snail in a bottle
nature, neighbours, and negligence; 7. An aboriginal title
the lie and law of the land; 8. Grinding at the mill
putting limits on agreements; 9. Of crimes and cautions
the rights and rites of investigation; 10. Coming up for air
the common law at 2010.