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Re-interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries : a seminal text in national and international contexts
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Re-interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries : a seminal text in national and international contexts

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"Derived from papers presented at a symposium convened at the University of Adelaide on 6 December 2012, together with additional chapters written after the event by John Orth and the editor."--Preface.

Contents

Blackstone's 'stutter' : the (anti) performance of the Commentaries / Kathryn Temple
William Blackstone : courtroom dramatist? / Simon Stern
Blackstone as draughtsman : picturing the law / Cristina S. Martinez
Blackstone's Commentaries : England's legal georgic? / Michael Meehan
Blackstone in the bayous : inscribing slavery in the Louisiana Digest of 1808 / John W. Cairns
Legal jambalaya / Stephen M. Sheppard
Blackstone and the birth of Quebec's distinct legal culture 1765-1867 / Michel Morin
Blackstone's ghost : law and legal education in North Carolina / John V. Orth
Antipodean Blackstone / Wilfrid Prest
Blackstone's king / Paul D. Halliday
Modern Blackstone : the king's two bodies, the Supreme Court and the President / Ruth Paley
Blackstone's Commentaries and the origins of modern constitutionalism / Horst Dippel
Reading Blackstone in the twenty-first century and the twenty-first century through Blackstone / Jessie Allen.

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