Evolution and the Common LawCambridge University Press, 2005. 4. 4. - 294페이지 This book offers a radical challenge to 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. Offering original readings of Charles Darwin's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, the book shows that law is a rhetorical activity that can only be properly appreciated in its historical and political context; tradition and transformation are locked in a mutually reinforcing but thoroughly contingent embrace. In contrast to the dewy-eyed offerings of much contemporary work, it demonstrates that, like life, law is an organic process (i.e., events are the products of functional and localized causes) rather than a miraculous one (i.e., events are the result of some grand plan or intervention). In short, common law is a perpetual work-in-progress - evanescent, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalising, and bottom-up. |
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... judicial invention . There are several important and acknowledged devices that courts use to cir- cumvent inconvenient or undesirable precedents - the court that rendered the earlier decision was not a superior court ; the precedent was ...
... judicial invention . There are several important and acknowledged devices that courts use to cir- cumvent inconvenient or undesirable precedents - the court that rendered the earlier decision was not a superior court ; the precedent was ...
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... Judicial Decision : Toward a Theory of Legal Justification 56-83 ( 1961 ) ; P. Atiyah and R. Summers , Form and Substance in Anglo - American Law 116-20 ( 1987 ) ; and F. Schauer , supra , note 9 at 595-602 . the past and rely on it to ...
... Judicial Decision : Toward a Theory of Legal Justification 56-83 ( 1961 ) ; P. Atiyah and R. Summers , Form and Substance in Anglo - American Law 116-20 ( 1987 ) ; and F. Schauer , supra , note 9 at 595-602 . the past and rely on it to ...
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... judicial reluctance to dra- matically recast established rules of law . The court may not be in the best position to assess the deficiencies of the existing law , much less problems which may be associated with the changes it might make ...
... judicial reluctance to dra- matically recast established rules of law . The court may not be in the best position to assess the deficiencies of the existing law , much less problems which may be associated with the changes it might make ...
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... judicial prince to bring them in turn to life when deciding a case . " 18 With considerable inge- nuity and without any apparent irony , he seemed to be suggesting not only that the common law was so compendious and so prescient that it ...
... judicial prince to bring them in turn to life when deciding a case . " 18 With considerable inge- nuity and without any apparent irony , he seemed to be suggesting not only that the common law was so compendious and so prescient that it ...
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... judicial alter ego is lauded much less for his ability to wreak changes in the law's order than for his godly capacity to capture the whole tradition of the law in its fullest and most illuminating sense . As the very model of the ...
... judicial alter ego is lauded much less for his ability to wreak changes in the law's order than for his godly capacity to capture the whole tradition of the law in its fullest and most illuminating sense . As the very model of the ...
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85 페이지 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
285 페이지 - As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.
8 페이지 - It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.
285 페이지 - The green and budding twigs may represent existing species ; and those produced during former years may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species...
34 페이지 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
285 페이지 - ... in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has...
201 페이지 - Its function is to provide a continuing framework for the legitimate exercise of governmental power and, when joined by a bill or a charter of rights, for the unremitting protection of individual rights and liberties.
90 페이지 - I want the working classes to understand that Science and her ways are great facts for them — that physical virtue is the base of all other, and that they are to be clean and temperate and all the rest — not because fellows *n black with white ties tell them so, but because these are plain and patent laws of nature, which they must obey under penalties...
21 페이지 - A bad earthquake at once destroys our oldest associations: the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a fluid; — one second of time^ has created in the mind a strange idea of insecurity, whi-.