| Description |
1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Work-in-progress : an introduction -- Darwin's excellent adventure : evolution and law -- The creationists' persistence : jurisprudence and God -- Taming the bulldog : the natural and pragmatic -- Tracking the common law : the routine and revolutionary -- Looking for Gadamer : traditions and transformations -- Reading between the lines : courts and constitutions -- Making changes : progress and politics -- Among the trees : a conclusion. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. |
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Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.
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Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002. |
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Common law -- Methodology.
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Common law. |
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Methodology. |
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Common law -- Study and teaching.
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Evolution -- Philosophy.
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Evolution -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hutchinson, Allan C., 1951- Evolution and the common law. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521849683 0521614910 (DLC) 2004023976 (OCoLC)56752619 |
| ISBN |
0511113595 (electronic book) |
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9780511113598 (electronic book) |
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0511113080 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511113086 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0521849683 |
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9780521849685 |
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0521614910 |
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9780521614917 |
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9780511610394 (electronic book) |
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0511610394 (electronic book) |
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1280416203 |
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9781280416200 |
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