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A Common Law for the Age of Statutes
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Guido Calabresi
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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Calabresi complains that we are "choking on statutes" and proposes a restoration of the courts to their common law function. From a series of lectures given by
Dynamic Statutory Interpretation
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: William N. Eskridge
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge a
Thinking about Statutes
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Andrew Burrows
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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We are in the age of statutes; and it is indisputable that statutes are swallowing up the common law. Yet the study of statutes as a coherent whole is rare. In
A Concise History of the Common Law
Language: en
Pages: 828
Authors: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Categories: Common law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
The Common Law
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Categories: Common law
Type: BOOK - Published: 1909 - Publisher:

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