The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Abrams, Robert A. | Copyright information

The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law. By J. H. Baker. (London and Rio Grande, OH: The Hambledon Press, 2000. $55.00.)

Any scholarly work that addresses the historical development of the English common law is bound to affect not only the scholars in the field of legal history, but also the practitioners of the law who are the inheritors of that tradition. J. H. Baker has produced such a work. Begun as a series of his own essays and lectures, this compilati...

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