(Source: CUP)
Cambridge
University Press is publishing a new book on the interactions between common
law and natural law in American legal history.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Speaking to today's flourishing conversations
on both law, morality, and religion, and the religious foundations of law,
politics, and society, Common Law and Natural Law in America is an ambitious
four-hundred-year narrative and fresh re-assessment of the varied American
interactions of 'common law', the stuff of courtrooms, and 'natural law', a law
built on human reason, nature, and the mind or will of God. It offers a
counter-narrative to the dominant story of common law and natural law by
drawing widely from theological and philosophical accounts of natural law, as
well as primary and secondary work in legal and intellectual history. With
consequences for today's natural-law proponents and critics alike, it explores
the thought of the Puritans, Revolutionary Americans, and seminal legal figures
including William Blackstone, Joseph Story, Christopher Columbus Langdell,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the legal realists.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Forsyth,
Yale University, Connecticut
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1. Puritan natural law: early New England and
the colonial colleges
2. Modern natural law: revolutionaries and
republicans
3. Organizing common law: William Blackstone
in America
4. subsuming natural law into common law:
Joseph Story
5. Law as science: Christopher Columbus
Langdell
6. Breaking with natural law: Oliver Wendell
Holmes and the legal realists
Epilogue
Index.
More information
here
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