An introduction to English legal history

by John Hamilton Baker

Book Overview

Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0406555036
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Butterworths
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Work

I don't understand the other reviewer's rating for this book. Even if he got the first edition by mistake rather than the 4th, it too was astonishingly good and deserved 5 stars. Frankly, this is the only comprehensive single volume history of the English common law that is fully up-to-date. Professor Baker is incredibly skilled at summarizing a complex or controversial matter in a paragraph or a page (which for students does require close reading). His writing is clear and easy to comprehend. The sourcebook that he and Professor Milsom edited is a valuable supplement to this text, but not required. Some lawyers really like Plucknett's Concise History of the Common Law, which is very good, but it's 50 years out of date.