Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer

Mary Bilder (Boston College, Massachusetts),Maeva Marcus (George Washington University, Washington DC),R. Kent Newmyer (University of Connecticut)

Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
17 July 2014
Pages
302
ISBN
9781107666627

Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer

Mary Bilder (Boston College, Massachusetts),Maeva Marcus (George Washington University, Washington DC),R. Kent Newmyer (University of Connecticut)

Blackstone in America explores the creative process of transplantation - the way in which American legislators and judges refashioned the English common law inheritance to fit the republican political culture of the new nation. With current scholarship returning to focus on the transformation of Anglo-American law to ‘American’ law, Professor Kathryn Preyer’s lifelong study of the constitutional and legal culture of the early American republic has acquired new relevance and a wider audience. The collection includes Professor Preyer’s work on criminal law, the early national judiciary, and the history of the book. All nine of Professor Preyer’s important and award-winning essays are easily accessible in this volume, with new introductions by three leading scholars of early American law.

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