Evolution and the Common Law

by Allan C. Hutchinson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521849683
• ISBN13: 9780521849685
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"