This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to disti

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in leg

This book examines the development of legal professionalism in the early English common law, with specific reference to the 13th-century treatise known as Bract

Written for the beginning student as well as the experienced scholar, this introductory analysis of the origin and early development or the English common law p