Add to ORKGThis book contains seven chapters discussing the following as possible sources of law: the Sovereign, Custom, Precedent, Equity, and Legislation. It deals with one of the most interesting subjects in life; and it is written in an attractive style. It reviews the ideas of former jurists well and criticises them with intelligence. It excites the reader to independent thought on each matter considered and tempts him to write a book of his own in order to do better if he can. This is high praise; and it should be remembered as this review proceeds, inasmuch as the reviewer is forced to fill most of his permitted space with a discussion of differences of opinion. The chief weaknesses of the book-which appear to the reviewer to be fundamental and...
In the preparation of this book, the author has allowed a good deal of latitude to his concept of n...
This is the fifth of a series of monographs sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation dealing with ce...
Postmodem Legal Movements does two things. First, the bulk of the book provides an overview of Ameri...
This book contains seven chapters discussing the following as possible sources of law: the Sovereign...
It is probably an understatement to say that our profession has had its fair quota of smugness. Yet ...
A consideration of these volumes, which has made up in duration what it may have lacked in intensive...
Unless lawyers are an unimaginative and hopelessly backward-looking social group, as some unkind cri...
Huntington Cairns has provided lawyers, judges, and laymen with a long-needed guide to the thinking ...
Law exists in primitive societies, and its study has value for civilized peoples. Its paramount valu...
In these days, out of the great mass of legal publications comparatively few emerge as real achievem...
Most of our judges and law professors spend a large part of their livesjustifying or criticizing var...
It has been aptly said that the definition of law is the battle ground of jurisprudence. The author ...
In traditional style, Professor Grismore has carefully and thoroughly treated in the traditional way...
The case method of law teaching has been so successful, judged by practical results, that for many y...
IN the maze of currents and cross-currents that characterize contemporarywriting on jurisprudence an...
In the preparation of this book, the author has allowed a good deal of latitude to his concept of n...
This is the fifth of a series of monographs sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation dealing with ce...
Postmodem Legal Movements does two things. First, the bulk of the book provides an overview of Ameri...
This book contains seven chapters discussing the following as possible sources of law: the Sovereign...
It is probably an understatement to say that our profession has had its fair quota of smugness. Yet ...
A consideration of these volumes, which has made up in duration what it may have lacked in intensive...
Unless lawyers are an unimaginative and hopelessly backward-looking social group, as some unkind cri...
Huntington Cairns has provided lawyers, judges, and laymen with a long-needed guide to the thinking ...
Law exists in primitive societies, and its study has value for civilized peoples. Its paramount valu...
In these days, out of the great mass of legal publications comparatively few emerge as real achievem...
Most of our judges and law professors spend a large part of their livesjustifying or criticizing var...
It has been aptly said that the definition of law is the battle ground of jurisprudence. The author ...
In traditional style, Professor Grismore has carefully and thoroughly treated in the traditional way...
The case method of law teaching has been so successful, judged by practical results, that for many y...
IN the maze of currents and cross-currents that characterize contemporarywriting on jurisprudence an...
In the preparation of this book, the author has allowed a good deal of latitude to his concept of n...
This is the fifth of a series of monographs sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation dealing with ce...
Postmodem Legal Movements does two things. First, the bulk of the book provides an overview of Ameri...