Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-l7hp2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T22:41:17.405Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Ideologies in Law Time: The Oxford History of the Laws of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Janet McLean
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

In the introduction to the new Oxford History of the Laws of England 1820–1914, the authors suggest that their task is to tell the “history of the law itself.” This review essay examines what can be learned from a history told from law's internal point of view rather than through the perspectives of other disciplines, such as economics or philosophy. It considers whether and how the common law responded to industrialization and laissez-faire ideology, the influence of salient philosophical movements—such as utilitarianism—on statutory change, and how all history is an exercise in ideology. In considering the public sphere, it suggests that this work should form the inspiration for further inquiry.

Type
Review Essay
Information
Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , Summer 2013 , pp. 746 - 764
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2013 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

References

Atiyah, Patrick. 1979. The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Austin, John. 1832. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. London: John Murray.Google Scholar
Austin, John. 1847. Centralization. Edinburgh Review 85:221–258.Google Scholar
Baker, John. 2004. The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. VI, 1483–1558. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Cornish, William. 1989. Law and Society in England 1750–1950. London: Sweet and Maxwell.Google Scholar
Cornish, William, Anderson, Stuart, Cocks, Raymond, Lobban, Michael, Polden, Patrick, and Smith, Keith. 2010. The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vols. XI‐XIII, 1820–1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Dicey, A. V. 1886. Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Laws of the Constitution. London: MacMillan.Google Scholar
Dicey, A. V. 1905. Lectures on the Relation Between Law and Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century. London: MacMillan.Google Scholar
Dworkin, Ronald. 2004. Hart's Postscript and the Character of Political Philosophy. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 24:1–36.Google Scholar
Handler, Phil. 2011. Review of The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. 13, 1820–1914. Fields of Development, by Cornish, William, Anderson, Stuart, Cocks, Raymond, Lobban, Michael, Polden, Patrick, and Smith, Keith. Edinburgh Law Review 15 (1): 141–143.Google Scholar
Hardy, Thomas. 1866. The Mayor of Casterbridge. London: Smith Elder & Co.Google Scholar
Holdsworth, William. 1903–1966. A History of English Law, 16 vols. London: Sweet and Maxwell.Google Scholar
Horwitz, Morton. 1974. The Historical Foundations of Modern Contract Law. Harvard Law Review 87:917.Google Scholar
Hudson, John. 2012. The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. II. c. 900–1216. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Lobban, Michael. 1991. The Common Law and English Jurisprudence 1760–1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
MacDonagh, O. 1977. Early Victorian Government 1830–1870. New York: Holmes and Meir.Google Scholar
Maine, H. 1861. Ancient Law. London: John Murray.Google Scholar
Maitland, Frederick. 1968. Introduction to Gierke, Political Theories of the Middle Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Markby, William. 1871. Elements of Law: Considered with Reference to General Jurisprudence. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
McLean, Janet. 2012. Searching for the State in British Legal Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Mill, J. S. 1863. Austin on Jurisprudence. Edinburgh Review 85:222–244.Google Scholar
Mill, J. S. 1984. Essays on Equality, Law and Education, ed. Robson, J. M. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.Google Scholar
Pollock, Frederick. 1876. Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity. London: Stevens.Google Scholar
Pollock, Frederick. 1887. The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising from Civil Wrongs in the Common Law. Philadelphia, PA: Blackstone Publishing.Google Scholar
Posner, Richard. 1973. Economic Analysis of Law. Boston, MA: Little Brown.Google Scholar
Rumble, Wilfred. 2004. Doing Austin Justice. London: Continuum.Google Scholar
Simpson, A. W. B. 1987. Legal Theory and Legal History. London: Hambleden Press.Google Scholar
Smith, Charlotte. 2011. Review of The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. 11, 1820–1914. The English Legal System, by Cornish, William, Anderson, Stuart, Cocks, Raymond, Lobban, Michael, Polden, Patrick, and Smith, Keith. Edinburgh Law Review 15 (1): 138–140.Google Scholar

Cases Cited

Heaven v. Pender (1883) 11 QBD 503 (Court of Appeal).Google Scholar
Donoghue v. Stevenson [1932] AC 562.Google Scholar

Statutes Cited

Births Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1836 (UK).Google Scholar
Clandestine Marriages Act, 1753 (UK).Google Scholar
Endowed Schools Act, 1874 (UK).Google Scholar
Pawnbrokers Act, 1872 (UK).Google Scholar
Sanitary Act, 1866 (UK).Google Scholar