A First Book of Jurisprudence for Students of the Common Law

by Frederick Pollock

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School LibraryCTRG95-B3668Includes index.London: Macmillan, 1911. xvi, 369 p.; 20 cm

348 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1994

About the author

Sir Frederick Pollock, English jurist and law historian

Reviews

[k · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly, the book was just very dry, and very boring. That is to be expected with this sort of literature, but I have other issues as well. Pollock contradicts himself a decent bit, and when he can’t get a point to fit within his weird, ultra-scientific, jurisprudential argument, he just brushes it off like oh this is too complex to get into now. Also, his disdain for custom irked me. Overall, some parts were kinda interesting, and I did learn, so two stars is fair.