ATreatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
                          Volume 8
             A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600–1900
           ATreatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
                       Editor-in-Chief
           Enrico Pattaro, CIRSFID and Law Faculty, University of Bologna, Italy
                       Advisory Board
           Norberto Bobbio †
           Ronald M. Dworkin, School of Law, New York University, USAand
           Faculty of Law, University College London, UK
           Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, USA
           Knud Haakonssen, Department of History, University of Sussex, UK
                      Associate Editors
           Gerald J. Postema, Department of Philosophy, The University of North
           Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
           Peter G. Stein, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, UK
                       Assistant Editor
           Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID and Law Faculty, University of Bologna, Italy
             ATreatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
                             Volume 8
                 A History of the Philosophy  
                 of Law in the Common Law 
                      World, 1600–1900
                               by
                           Michael Lobban
                   Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
              AC.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
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