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The Future of the common law.
Title:
The Future of the common law.
Author:
Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1937.
Physical Description:
x, 247 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
General Note:
"The Harvard law school 'Conference on the Future of the Common Law' was held in ... Cambridge, on August 19-21, 1936, as one of the symposia which formed part of the celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of Harvard College."--Pref.
Language:
English
Contents:
What is the common law? / by Roscoe Pound -- The common law and the civil law in the British commonwealth of nations / by Sir M.S. Amos. Remarks / by J.H. Wigmore and W.C. Van Vleck -- The common law in its old home / by Lord Wright of Durley -- The common law in the United States / by H.F. Stone. Remarks / by O.W. Branch, W.D. Lewis and H.F. Goodrich -- The common law in Canada / by H.H. Davis -- The common law in Ireland / by Henry Hanna. Remarks / by W.E. Treanor and H.U. Sims -- The spirit of the common law / by F.E. Crane -- Appendix: The greeting from the Association of Legal Science of the Keiogijuku University, of Tokyo, Japan, is here reproduced.
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