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Matthew Hale: On the Law of Nature, Reason, and Common Law: Selected Jurisprudential Writings
Gerald J. Postema
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Description for Matthew Hale: On the Law of Nature, Reason, and Common Law: Selected Jurisprudential Writings
Hardback. Gerald Postema presents the collected writings on legal, political, and moral theory of a key thinker of the 17th century, Sir Matthew Hale. Hale develops a unique and sophisticated account of the nature and foundations of common law, with extended reflections on natural law, moral and legal reasoning, and the legal limits of political authority. Editor(s): Postema, Gerald J. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; HBLH; HPCD; LAB. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Lawyer, judge, public figure, historian, theologian, and amateur natural philosopher, Sir Matthew Hale worked and wrote in the middle decades of the seventeenth century, perhaps the most turbulent period of English political history. His reflections on reason, law, and political authority, unpublished in his lifetime, are collected in this volume. It sets Hale's previously unpublished Treatise on the Nature of Laws in General and touching the Law of Nature and his "Reflections on Mr Hobbes his Dialogue of the Laws" in context of other key works of legal and constitutional theory. The Treatise reveals a complex general understanding of law ... Read more
Lawyer, judge, public figure, historian, theologian, and amateur natural philosopher, Sir Matthew Hale worked and wrote in the middle decades of the seventeenth century, perhaps the most turbulent period of English political history. His reflections on reason, law, and political authority, unpublished in his lifetime, are collected in this volume. It sets Hale's previously unpublished Treatise on the Nature of Laws in General and touching the Law of Nature and his "Reflections on Mr Hobbes his Dialogue of the Laws" in context of other key works of legal and constitutional theory. The Treatise reveals a complex general understanding of law ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199234929
SKU
V9780199234929
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About Gerald J. Postema
Gerald J. Postema has taught philosophy and law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1980. He held visiting posts at Cambridge University, the University of Athens, the Australian National University, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the European University Institute and of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He has written extensively ... Read more
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