Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107666627)

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 acquired new relevance and a wider audience. The collection includes Professor Preyer's work on criminal law, the early national judiciary, and the history of the book. All nine of Professor Preyer's important and award-winning essays are easily accessible in this volume, with new introductions by three leading scholars of early American law.

Author: Mary Bilder, Maeva Marcus, R. Kent Newmyer
ISBN-10: 1107666627
ISBN-13: 9781107666627
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2014
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d