Blackstone and His Critics

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Dr Anthony Page (Australia) Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Blackstone and His Critics

Dr Anthony Page (Australia), Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest (University of Adelaide, Australia)

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Hart Publishing
19 April 2018

Legal history; Primary sources of law

William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited well over 10,000 times in American judicial opinions alone. Prominent in recent reassessment of Blackstone and his works, Wilfrid Prest also convened the Adelaide symposia which have now generated two collections of essays: Blackstone and his Commentaries: Biography, Law, History (2009), and Re-Interpreting Blackstone’s Commentaries: A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts (2014).

This third collection focuses on Blackstone's critics and detractors. Leading scholars examine the initial reception of the Commentaries in the context of debates over law, religion and politics in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Having shown Blackstone’s volumes to be a contested work of the Enlightenment, the remaining chapters assess critical responses to Blackstone on family law, the status of women and legal education in Britain and America. While Blackstone and his Commentaries have been widely lauded and memorialised in marble, this volume highlights the extent to which they have also attracted censure, controversy and disparagement.

Edited by: Dr Anthony Page (Australia), Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 531g
ISBN: 9781509910458
ISBN 10: 150991045X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Rationalising the Common Law: Blackstone and His Predecessors Michael Lobban 2. The ‘Least Repulsive’ Work on a ‘Repulsive Subject’: Jeremy Bentham on William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England Philip Schofield 3. Blackstone, Expositor and Censor of Law Both Made and Found Jessie Allen 4. William Blackstone, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Winchester: The Case for an Oxford Enlightenment Ian Doolittle 5. Rational Dissent and Blackstone’s Commentaries Anthony Page 6. Blackstone, Parliamentary Sovereignty and his Irish Critics Ultán Gillen 7. Blackstone, Family Law and the Exclusion of the Half Blood in Inheritance Tim Stretton 8. Blackstone and Women Carolyn Steedman 9. Professing Law in the Shadow of the Commentaries David Lieberman 10. Hammond’s Blackstone and the Historical School of American Jurisprudence David M Rabban 11. ‘A Very Narrowing Effect Upon Our Profession’: A Progressive Jurist Confronts Blackstone John V Orth 12. Blackstone’s Posthumous Reputation Wilfrid Prest

Anthony Page is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Tasmania. Wilfrid Prest is Emeritus Professor of History and of Law at the University of Adelaide.

Reviews for Blackstone and His Critics

The gap in existing scholarship that is handsomely addressed in this volume is a critical analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries and the uses to which they have been put ... In promoting a critical and informed view of the Commentaries, Blackstone and His Critics provides important intellectual stimulus to modern readers. -- Matthew Stubbs, Adelaide Law School * Comparative Legal History *