The Evolution of the Common Law
Troy L. Harris, Studies in Canon Law and Common Law in Honor of R.H. Helmholz (Berkeley: Robbins Collection 2015)
Posted: 17 Oct 2015 Last revised: 23 Oct 2015
Date Written: October 5, 2015
Abstract
This book chapter — originally delivered as the Donald W. Sutherland Memorial Lecture in Law and History at the University of Iowa and now published in this festschrift for Professor R.H. Helmholz — explores evolution as a metaphor to deepen our understanding of the development of the common law. The book chapter also uses examples, drawn from different centuries, to examine the role of external factors in the common law’s evolution.
Keywords: English law, English legal history, common law, history of common law, legal history
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