While common law is developed by the courts and judges and may well be the prime authorities for the development of law, and while French private law is said to be the origin of the idea of modern codification and grand legislatures, German private law can well be seen as the law where the influence of academia is paramount. It is perhaps fair to say that no other code is as st...(展开全部)

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and no...(展开全部)

This book, a prize-winning history of American law in the twentieth century, is a successor to Lawrence Friedman's landmark work A History of American Law. It chronicles the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life and the extent to which social transformation has contributed to significant shifts within the legal system.

A history of American law in the 20th century. It describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the centre of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programmes ranging from Social Security to the Securities Exchange Commission to the F...(展开全部)

圭多·卡拉布雷西是美籍意大利法学家，法经济学创始人之一，瑞典皇家科学院院士。27岁即任耶鲁法学院教授，后担任耶鲁法学院院长，1994年被克林顿总统任命为美国联邦第二巡回上诉法院法官。卡拉布雷西毕业于耶鲁及牛津大学，并拥有全球四十多所大学的荣誉学位。其学术成果《事故的成本》与《财产规则、责任规则及不可转让性》不仅奠定了法经济学的基础，亦位居美国法学界引注率最高的著作及论文之列。为表彰其学术贡献，耶鲁法学院于2006年设立圭多·卡拉布雷西教授席位。 胡小倩，意大利都灵大学法学博士，美国哈佛大学法学硕士。华东政法大学国际金融法律学院教师。

Written in Lord Denning's familiar vivid, staccato style, Landmarks in the Law discusses cases and characters whose names will be known to all readers, grouped together under headings such as High Treason, Freedom of the Press, and Murder. Thus, for example, the chapter on High Treason tells the stories of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Roger Casement, and William Joyce - three very d...(展开全部)

奥兰多·费吉斯（Orlando Figes，1959—），英国人，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作——《耳语者》、《娜塔莎之舞》等，取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、N CR图书奖等，入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，并已被翻译成20多种文字出版。 译者 毛俊杰，1952年生于上海，1978年入复旦分校中文系，1981年后定居纽约，译作有弗朗西斯·福山《政治秩序的起源》、杰克·凯鲁亚克《吉拉德的幻象》等。

奥兰多·费吉斯（Orlando Figes，1959—），英国人，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作——《耳语者》、《娜塔莎之舞》等，取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、N CR图书奖等，入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，并已被翻译成20多种文字出版。 译者 毛俊杰，1952年生于上海，1978年入复旦分校中文系，1981年后定居纽约，译作有弗朗西斯·福山《政治秩序的起源》、杰克·凯鲁亚克《吉拉德的幻象》等。

弗里兹•科恩（Fritz Kern，1884—1950），德国史学家，著有《中世纪早期的神圣王权与抵抗权》《中世纪的法律与宪法》《迄至1308年法国扩张政策的缘起》等。