A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government
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- Hardcover
630 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2008
Summary
In the two related works in this volume, Bentham offers a detailed critique of William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9). In ‘Comment on the Commentaries’, on which Bentham began work in 1774, he exposes the fallacies which he claims to have detected in Blackstone, and criticizes the theory of the Common Law. He goes on to provide important reflections on the nature of law, and more particularly on the nature of customary and ofstatute law, and on judicial interpretati…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199553471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199553475 |
| Series: | The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham |
| Author: | Philip Schofield, J.H. Burns, H.L.A Hart |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 630 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 1.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 163mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Philip Schofield
Philip Schofield joined the Bentham Project, based at University College London, in 1984. He joined the Faculty of Laws as a Lecturer in 1993, and was subsequently appointed to a Readership and then to a personal Chair in the History of Legal and Political Thought. He was appointed Joint GeneralEditor, with Frederick Rosen, of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham in 1995, and has been sole General Editor since 2003. He has been Director of the Bentham Project since 2001.
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