A Short Introduction to the Common Law

by Geoffrey Samuel

An ideal textbook to introduce the common law to advanced international students.This book provides a short, accessible introduction to the English common law tradition, in particular to the civil process.It adopts an approach which explains the historical development of the common law institutions and procedures whilst also setting them in perspective through a comparative outlook. Aspects of the common law are contrasted on occasions with structural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782549501
• ISBN13: 9781782549505
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages