Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws: Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578–1616 - Couverture souple

Smith, David Chan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107639549 ISBN 13 : 9781107639546

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new interpretation of his early career, the development of his legal thought, and the path from royalism to opposition in the turbulent decades leading up to the English civil wars.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Chan Smith is an Assistant Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, where he researches business and law in the early modern Atlantic world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107639549
• ISBN 13: 9781107639546
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
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