English Law Under Two Elizabeths

The Late Tudor Legal World and the Present

Sir John Baker

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English

Cambridge University Press
28 January 2021

European history; History: earliest times to present day; Law; Comparative law; Legal history

Series: The Hamlyn Lectures

Comparative legal history is generally understood to involve the comparison of legal systems in different countries. This is an experiment in a different kind of comparison. The legal world of the first Elizabethans is separated from that of today by nearly half a millennium. But the past is not a wholly different country. The common law is still, in an organic sense, the same common law as it was in Tudor times and Parliament is legally the same Parliament. The concerns of Tudor lawyers turn out to resonate with those of the present and this book concentrates on three of them: access to justice, in terms of both cost and public awareness; the respective roles of common law and legislation; and the means of protecting the rule of law through the courts. Central to the story is the development of judicial review in the time of Elizabeth I.

By: Sir John Baker
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 306g
ISBN: 9781108947329
ISBN 10: 1108947328
Series: The Hamlyn Lectures
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 28 January 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

I. The English Legal System under Elizabeth I; 2. The Elizabethan Common Law; 3. An Age of Common Law and an Age of Statute?; 4. The Elizabethan Inheritance; 5. Comparing Then and Now.

Sir John Baker is Emeritus Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge. His recent publications include the 5th edition of his An Introduction to English Legal History (2019), The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616 (Cambridge, 2017) and Collected Papers on English Legal History (Cambridge, 2013).