Adventures of the Law Proceedings of the Sixteenth British Legal History Conference, Dublin

by Brand, Paul; Costello, Kevin; Osborough, W. N.

• ISBN13: 9781851829361
• ISBN10: 1851829369
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-09
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

Roger D. Groot (School of Law, Washington and Lee University): Isolt's trial and ordeal: a legal-historical analysis - Dafydd Jenkins (Department of Law, University of Walses, Aberystwyth): Borrowings in the Welsh lawbooks - Paul Brand (All Souls College, Oxford): The use and adaptation of the action of replevin in Ireland during the reign of Edward I - Frederik Pedersen (School of History and History of Art, University of Aberdeen): The Danes and the marriage break-up of Philip II of France - W.D.H. Sellar (School of Law, University of Edinburgh): Birlaw courts and birleymen - C.H. van Rhee (Dept of Merajuridica, Law School, Maastricht University): The role of exceptions in Continental civil procedure - Kevin Costello (Faculty of Law, University College, Dublin): Sir William Petty and the Court of Admiralty in Restoration Ireland - Daniel M. Klerman (Law School, University of Southern California) and Paul G. Mahoney (School of Law, University of Virginia): The value of judicial independence: evidence from eighteenth-century England - Julie Evans (Dept of Criminology, University of Melbourne): The rule of law in the settlercolonial encounter: the case of Western Australia - David V. Williams (Faculty of Law, University of Aukland): Indigenous customary rights and the common law in Aotearoa New Zealand - N.M. Dawson (School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast): Colourful adventures of the law: legal regulation of colour as sign from heraldry to trade mark law - Richard W. Ireland (Dept of Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth): Charles Hunt's haircut: getting gown to the roots of a legal adventure - Thomas Krause (Law Library, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel): The influence of Sir Walter Crofton's 'Irish system: on prison reform in Germany - Russell K. Osgood (Grinnell College, Iowa): Law in early Iowa: one adventure - Joshua Getzler and Mike Macnair (St Hugh's College, Oxford):The firm as an entitiy before the Companies Acts - Colum Kenny (School of Communications) Adventures in training: the Irish genesis of the 'remarkable and far-sighted' Select Committee on Legal Education, 1846 - Richard Whiting (School of History, University of Leeds): Politics, law and work in modern Britain: the 1965 Redundancy Payments Act - Peter Spiller (School of Law, University of Waikato): An adventure of the law: the Spanish Champagne case

Table of Contents

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	vii
THE BRITISH LEGAL HISTORY CONFERENCE	ix
IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS	xi
PREFACE	xiii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS	xvii
Isolt's trial and ordeal: a legal-historical analysis	1	(18)
Roger D. Groot
Borrowings in the Welsh lawbooks	19	(21)
Dafydd Jenkins
The use and adaptation of the action of replevin in Ireland during the reign of Edward I	40	(14)
Paul Brand
The Danes and the marriage break-up of Philip II of France	54	(16)
Frederik Pedersen
Birlaw courts and birleymen	70	(18)
W.D.H. Sellar
The role of exceptions in Continental civil procedure	88	(18)
C.H. van Rhee
Sir William Petty and the Court of Admiralty in Restoration Ireland	106	(33)
Kevin Costello
The value of judicial independence: evidence from eighteenth-century England	139	(22)
Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney
The rule of law in the settler-colonial encounter: the case of Western Australia	161	(16)
Julie Evans
Indigenous customary rights and the common law in Aotearoa New Zealand	177	(22)
David V. Williams
Colourful adventures of the law: legal regulation of colour as sign from heraldry to trade mark law	199	(20)
N.M. Dawson
Charles Hunt's haircut: getting down to the roots of a legal adventure	219	(15)
Richard W. Ireland
The influence of Sir Walter Crofton's 'Irish system' on prison reform in Germany	234	(12)
Thomas Krause
Law in early Iowa: one adventure	246	(21)
Russell K. Osgood
The firm as an entity before the Companies Acts	267	(22)
Joshua Getzler and Mike Macnair
Adventures in training: the Irish genesis of the 'remarkable and far-sighted' Select Committee on Legal Education, 1846	289	(12)
Colum Kenny
Politics, law and work in modern Britain: the 1965 Redundancy Payments Act	301	(18)
Richard Whiting
An adventure of the law: the Spanish Champagne case	319	(13)
Peter Spitler
THE IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY	332