Is Eating People Wrong?

The law lives through people and their stories - and Allan Hutchinson has captured some of the most remarkable legal stories of the last two centuries in this book... The details are memorable, often funny, and sometimes tragic. English speaking peoples are still united by a common legal tradition, and these stories ... unite us by reminding the reader what it means for humans to argue and resolve their disputes through judgment. - Noah Feldman Bemis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author of Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices Combining great story telling with insightful legal analysis, Hutchinson provides readers with fascinating human dramas and historical insights while engaging them in a wide-ranging investigation of the nature and significance of law. Rarely has a 'must-read' been this much fun! - Andrew Petter President and Vice-Chancellor, Simon Fraser University Although this is most obviously an almost perfect book to give any aspiring law student, it can be read with enjoyment and profit by general readers and legal academics alike. - Sanford Levinson Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School A law degree will take three years of your life and a big chunk out of your bank account. This book promises to turn anyone into a font of legal opinion and trivia in a fraction of the time and cost. ... The 'great cases' are lively and educational in equal parts. - Peter Shawn Taylor Maclean's Also worth reading is a book that just landed in my mailbox with the charming title Is Eating People Wrong? The author, Canadian scholar Allan C. Hutchinson, picks eight 'great cases' that help explain how the law in English-speaking nations works. For non-lawyers who want an introduction to the judge-made system we call the common law, this book is the ideal primer. - Daniel Fisher Forbes.com