This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and...
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This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the common law's history
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Table of Cases; 1 Evolution and the Common Law: An Introduction; 2 Darwin's Excellent Adventure: Evolution and Law; 3 The Creationists' Persistence: Jurisprudence and God; 4 Taming the Bulldog: The Natural and the Pragmatic; 5 Tracking the Common Law: The Routine and the Revolutionary; 6 Looking for Gadamer: Traditions and Transformations; 7 Reading Between the Lines: Courts and Constitutions; 8 Making Changes: Progress and Politics; 9 Among the Trees: A Conclusion; Index
