(Source: Hart Publishing)
Via Hart Publishing, we learned
of the publication of several new legal history books. Discount announcements
for these four books are included below, courtesy of Hart Publishing.
Pioneering Australian Legal
Scholars
Susan Bartie
Peter Brett (1918–1975), Alice
Erh-Soon Tay (1934–2004) and Geoffrey Sawer (1910–1996) are key, yet largely
overlooked, members of Australia’s first community of legal scholars. This book
is a critical study of how their ideas and endeavours contributed to
Australia’s discipline of law and the first Australian legal theories. It
examines how three marginal figures – a Jewish man (Brett), a Chinese woman
(Tay), and a war orphan (Sawer) – rose to prominence during a transformative
period for Australian legal education and scholarship.
Drawing on in-depth interviews
with former colleagues and students, extensive archival research, and an
appraisal of their contributions to scholarship and teaching, this book
explores the three professors’ international networks and broader social and
historical milieux. Their pivotal leadership roles in law departments at the
University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, and the Australian National
University are also critically assessed.
Ranging from local experiences
and the concerns of a nascent Australian legal academy to the complex
transnational phenomena of legal scholarship and theory, Free Hands and
Minds makes a compelling case for contextualising law and legal
culture within society. At a time of renewed crisis in legal education and
research in the common law world, it also offers a vivid, nuanced and critical
account of the enduring liberal foundations of Australia’s discipline of law.
Susan Bartie is
Lecturer in Law at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
September 2019
| 9781509922611 | 344pp
| Hardback | RSP: £70
Discount Price: £56
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use the code CV7 at the checkout to get 20% off your order!
William Cornish, Steve Banks,
Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell and Rebecca Probert
Law and Society in England
1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal
history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this
new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal
and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves
imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to
respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes.
What emerges is a lively and
critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an
engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and
legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them.
The book is divided into eight
chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour
Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime.
This extensively referenced
analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and
teachers of English law, political science, and social history.
William Cornish CMG Qc
(Hon) FBA is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of
Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Stephen Banks is
an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Reading.
Charles Mitchell QC (Hon)
FBA is a Professor of Law at University College London.
Paul Mitchell is
a Professor of Law at University College London.
Rebecca Probert is
a Professor of Law at the University of Exeter.
Oct 2019
| 9781849462730 | 784pp
| Paperback | RSP: £39.99
Discount Price: £31.99
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Edited by Brian Sloan
The Landmark Cases series
highlights the historical antecedents of what are widely considered to be the
leading cases in a discipline, and seeks to provide contexts in which to better
understand how and why certain cases came to be regarded as the ‘landmark’
cases in any given field. Succession law’s long pedigree, near-universal
application, immense capacity for human interest stories, somewhat uncertain
future in England and Wales, and close connection to demographics make it an
ideal candidate for a Landmark Cases volume. The distinguished contributors to
this collection consider cases ranging from 1720 to 2017, covering issues such
as will-making and interpretation, the position of beneficiaries and personal
representatives, testamentary promises, and the extent of testamentary freedom
in England and Wales and beyond. The cases are relevant not only to scholars
and students of succession law per se, but also those working in fields such as
tax, trusts, tort and land law. They raise issues as diverse as class,
colonialism, familial dynamics, expectations and obligations, mental health,
and the proper roles of the legal profession and the welfare state. The
collection will provoke much discussion on what makes a ‘landmark’ case, as
well as on the peculiarities and limitations of the case law method.
Brian Sloan is
a College Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Robinson College, and an Affiliated
Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
Oct 2019
| 9781509919000 | 424pp
| Hardback | RSP: £120
Discount Price: £96
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Edited by James Goudkamp and
Donal Nolan
The publication of Scholars of
Tort Law marks the beginning of a long overdue rebalancing of private law
scholarship. Instead of concentrating on judicial decisions and academic
commentary only for what that commentary says about judicial decisions, the book
explores the contributions of scholars of tort law in their own right. The work
of a selection of leading scholars of tort law from across the common law
world, ranging from Thomas Cooley (1824–1898) to Patrick Atiyah (1931–2018), is
addressed by eminent current scholars in the field. The focus of the
contributions is on the nature of the work produced by each of the scholars in
question, important influences on their work, and the influence which that work
in turn had on thinking about tort law. The process of subjecting tort law
scholarship to sustained analysis provides new insights into the intellectual
development of tort law and reveals the important role played by scholars in
that development. By focusing on the work of influential tort scholars, the
book serves to emphasise the importance of legal scholarship to the development
of the common law more generally.
James Goudkamp is
Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow
of Keble College, Oxford.
Donal Nolan is
Professor of Private Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Worcester
College, Oxford.
Oct 2019
| 9781509910571 | 424pp
| Hardback | RSP: £85
Discount Price: £68
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use the code CV7 at the checkout to get 20% off your order!
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