Legal Evolution: The Story of an Idea (The R. M. Jones Lectures in the Development of Ideas)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521227836 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 143 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thomas said brief, dense and very enlightening. Though only 1brief, dense and very enlightening Though only 130 pages or so, Peter Stein's book is an education in the history of historical jurisprudence. If you long to place such jurisprudentialists as Adam Smith, Henry Maine, Savigny, Bentham and a half dozen less well known figures in context, this is th. 0 pages or so, Peter Stein's book is an education in the history of historical jurisprudence. If you long to place such jurisprudentialists as Adam Smith, Henry Maine, Savigny, Bentham and a half dozen less well known figures in context, this is th
Legal evolution is a way of explaining how the law changes. Basically it suggests that a society's law develops along predetermined lines parallel to those of its other institutions. The idea came to prominence in the mid-eighteenth century as a response to the difficulties experienced by theorists in the field of natural law when applying the notion of universal natural rights to different types of society. Finally he considers the different types of opposition which Maine's ideas encountered in the late nineteenth century and the attempts to retain the essentials of legal evolution in a modified form.