Overview

Network and Connections in Legal History examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers - from Scotland to East Florida and India - shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how personal connections could be crucial in pressuring the legislature to institute reform - as with twentieth century feminist campaigns. It explores the transmission of legal ideas; what happened to those ideas was not predetermined, but when new connections were made, they could assume a new life. In some cases, new thinkers made intellectual connections not previously conceived, in others it was the new purposes to which ideas and practices were applied which made them adapt. This book shows how networks and connections between people and places have shaped the way that legal ideas and practices are transmitted across time and space.

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Author:   Michael Lobban (London School of Economics and Political Science) ,  Ian Williams (University College London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.509kg
ISBN:  

9781108796637

ISBN 10:   110879663
Pages:   351
Publication Date:   15 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Michael Lobban and Ian Williams; 2. Networks and Influences: Contextualising Personnel and Procedures in the Court of Chivalry Anthony Musson; 3. Men of law and legal networks in Aberdeen, principally in 1600-1650 Adelyn Wilson; 4. Calling Time at the Bar: First women barristers and their networks and connections Judith Bourne; 5. The Thistle, the Rose, and the Palm: Scottish and English Judges in British East Florida M. C. Mirow; 6. 'The Bengal Boiler': Legal Networks in Colonial Calcutta Raymond Cocks; 7. The White Ensign on Land: The Royal Navy and Legal Authority in Early Sierra Leone Tim Soriano; 8. A Broker's Advice: Credit Networks and Mortgage Risk in the Eighteenth-century Empire Julia Rudolph; 9. Trans-Atlantic connections: The many networks and the enduring legacy of J.P. Benjamin Catharine MacMillan; 10. Interpretatio ex aequo et bono – the emergence of equitable interpretation in European legal scholarship Lorenzo Maniscalco; 11. Shakespeare and the European Ius Commune R. H. Helmholz; 12. Law Reporting and Law Making: the Missing Link in Nineteenth-century Tax Law Chantal Stebbings; 13. John Taylor Coleridge and English Criminal Law Philip Handler

Reviews

'This is a very worthwhile collection, exploring the many and various ways in which networks and connections have had a bearing on the development of law, legal practice and legal systems. The chapters give different and stimulating perspectives on the importance of connections between lawyers, ideas and bodies of law, showing the influence of these connections, both in fostering inclusion and expansion, and also in excluding those outside a network. With a geographic reach which takes in Europe, Africa, North America and India, and a broad temporal scope, there is much to engage anyone with an interest in legal history.' Gwen Seabourne, Professor of Legal History, University of Bristol Law School 'Legal systems and lawyerly cultures in the past rested on intersecting communication networks. Easy exchange of legal news, know-how and instruction could occur through the daily life of lawyers working in tight communities, and these legal circles could be widened by travel, migration, and above all, by shared reading of the burgeoning texts published for national and imperial consumption. Today we take network connectivity for granted, or even curse it as overwhelming and degrading our knowledge; the authors of this fine volume show how slower networks in the past helped found our modern legal world. In one polished contribution after another we are shown lawyers at their common work, from medieval and renaissance Britain through to the farthest reaches of modern empires. War, death, and taxes; financiers and imperialists; assertive women lawyers, querulous advocates, grave doctors of jurisprudence - all jostle on these pages, capped by a chapter on Shakespeare himself as a legally curious artist addressing a wide and knowing audience. A stimulating collection of original and imaginative researches.' Joshua Getzler, Law Faculty, University of Oxford 'Network analysis has long proved important in sociology and history, but is seldom used in legal history. This fascinating, wide-ranging and important book makes a persuasive case for the value of network analysis within and beyond legal history. It provides a number of models for thinking about how, why and to what effect different networks help to fashion the development of law. In addition to making a valuable contribution to legal history, the book should appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines.' David Sugarman, Lancaster University Law School and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London '... this book considers how the careers of individuals or interpretive communities do not only transmit ideas to new places and people, but how, once transmitted, ideas flourish in these new networks to generate original ideas, and new legal life.' Ashley Pearson, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

Author Information

Michael Lobban is Professor of Legal History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, England. He is the author of The Common Law and English Jurisprudence, 1760-1850 (1991) and A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600-1900 (2007), as well as one of the authors of volumes XI-XIII of The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Ian Williams is Associate Professor at the University College London Faculty of Laws, England. His research interests are principally in legal history, particularly early-modern English legal history. He is co-editor of Landmark Cases in Criminal Law.

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