Author : Paul A. Brand
Release : 2012
Genre : Courts
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Book Synopsis Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law by : Paul A. Brand
Download or read book Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law written by Paul A. Brand. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than two hundred legal historians, from every corner of the globe, met in Oxford at the Eighteenth British Legal History Conference in early July 2007 to hear and present papers on the history of "judges and judging". A selection of the papers presented at the conference has now been revised and edited to form the chapters of this volume. Perhaps the theme of the conference and of this publication needs some initial explanation. The Legal Realists of the 1920s and 1930s rightly questioned the pre-eminence given to the study of decision-making in the courts in American legal education, and similar ideas have entered British and Commonwealth legal education in the past generation; the utterances of judges are not taken as the sum of, or even the core of, the law. But this is hardly news for legal historians. They have long been effortless, even naively unselfconscious, Realists, always concerned to understand the making of the law within the context of its time, with due attention to the society in which law is embedded and the shifting mentalities of professionals and other players in the legal system"--