Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer

by Maeva Marcus, Mary Bilder, R. Kent Newmyer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521490871
• ISBN13: 9780521490870
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"