ENGLISH LEGAL HISTORY

Links and Citations


Glanvill (1188) excerpts  vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/glanvill.html

Bracton (1220s-1230s) Online  bracton.law.harvard.edu/

The History of Parliament  www.historyofparliamentonline.org/

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica entry on "English Law"  www.gutenberg.org/files/35306/35306-h/35306-h.htm#ar2  


Robert F. Mulligan, Spontaneously Evolved Social Order versus Positive Legislation in English Constitutional History, 17 Rev Austrian Econ 41 (2004)  www.gmu.edu/depts/rae/archives/VOL17_1_2004/2_mulligan.pdf
Robert F. Mulligan, The Common Law Character of English Charters: Spontaneous Order in the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164), 16 Constitutional Political Economy 285 (2005)  http://paws.wcu.edu/mulligan/www/lawecon.html
Robert F. Mulligan, Emergent and Instrumental Institutions in English Constitutional History, 3 Studies in Emergent Order 82 (2010)  http://paws.wcu.edu/mulligan/www/emergentECH.pdf  
Mulligan's website


Coke
Allen Boyer, Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age (Stanford UP, 2003), reviewed on LPBR and H-Net
Allen Boyer, ed., Law Liberty and Parliament: Selected Essays on the Writings of Sir Edward Coke (Liberty Fund, 2004) available online from OLL


Blackstone
Dennis R. Nolan, Sir William Blackstone and the New American Republic: A Study of Intellectual Impact, 51 NYU L Rev 731 (1976)
Neil Duxbury, How Blackstone Lost the Colonies: English Law, Colonial Lawyers, and the American Revolution, 12 J Legal History 281 (1991)
Albert W. Altschuler, Sir William Blackstone and the Shaping of American Law, 144 New L.J. 896 (1994)
Albert W. Altschuler, Rediscovering Blackstone, 145 U Pa L Rev  1 (1996)
Allen D. Boyer, Sir Edward Cook and the Elizabethan Age (Stanford U Press, 2003)
Allen Boyer, Law's Architect, 22 Yale JL & Humanities 127 (2010) (review of 2008 bio of Blackstone)
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica  http://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Blackstone,_Sir_William

Cornish & Clark, Law and Society in England 1750-1950 (1989)  www.law.cam.ac.uk/faculty-resources/download/law-and-society-in-england-1750-1950/2624/pdf
and 


Maitland
F.W. Maitland, The Forms of Action at Common Law (1909)  www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/maitland-formsofaction.asp  
Alan Macfarlane, F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World  www.alanmacfarlane.com/TEXTS/Maitland_final.pdf


S.F.C. (Toby) Milsom archives at Cambridge  www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/professor_toby_milsom.php


Daniel Hannan, The World of English Freedoms, Wall St. J., Nov. 15, 2013  online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303289904579195922823363280
Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World (HarperCollins, 2013)



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