Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise

by Markus D. Dubber and Angela Fernandez

'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849461414
• ISBN13: 9781849461412
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"