In very recent years there has been a renewed interest in the legal history of Louisiana in the Territorial Period and the early years of…
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This blog noted the important Blackstone Exhibition at Yale earlier his year. See https://www.blogs.law.ed.ac.uk/elhblog/2015/03/16/blackstone-exhibition. Your blogger is delighted to report that it will soon be able…
Comments closedBlackstone famously compared the English law to a Gothic Castle. Though he was writing at the start of the Gothic revival, his approach was rather…
Comments closedSir William Blackstone (1723-1780) is one of the most important ever writers on law. He is up there with the Gods of Ulpian, Pothier and Savigny.…
Comments closedThis blogger’s interest in the great English jurist, William Blackstone, is probably obvious. But he has recently been informed by his friend Georgia Chadwick of…
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