First published in 1973, The Birth of the English Common Law has come to enjoy classic status. In a new preface, Professor van Caenegem discusses some recent developments in the study of English law under the Norman and earliest Angevin kings. The book provides a challenging interpretation of the emergence of the Common Law in Anglo-Norman England, against the background of t...(展开全部)

克雷斯蒂安·冯·巴尔（CHRISTIAN VON BAR），1952年出生于汉诺威，先后就读于弗赖堡大学、基尔大学和哥廷根大学，获法学博士学位。1981年就任奥斯纳布吕克大学法学院教授，1987年创建该校私法与国际法比较研究所并一直担任所长至今。其著述等身，代表作有《社会生活一般义务》、《国际私法》和《欧洲比较侵权行为法》。巴尔教授是欧洲当代最著名的私法学者之一，其所担任主席的“欧洲民法典”研究项目是欧洲私法界最引人注目的研究项目。除了教学和研究所的工作外，他还担任众多兼职和客座职务。

This book is the second of a two-volume treatise on the law of non-contractual obligations. The result of a unique attempt to discover the common elements of the law of torts of all the member states of the EU, it is founded on the belief that the approximation of European laws should not be left to the directives and regulations of Brussels alone. To this end, von Bar has unde...(展开全部)

The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.

盖多·卡拉布雷西，1932年生于意大利米兰，后随父母移居美国。早年求学于耶鲁大学和牛津大学，曾任《耶鲁法学》编辑和美国联邦最高法院胡果·布莱克大法官的秘书。1959年起执教于耶鲁大学法学院，1985年起任院长。1994年被任命为联邦第二巡回上诉法院法官。

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birt...(展开全部)

扎卡里·赛尔·席夫曼（Zachary Sayre Schiffman），美国当代著名历史学家，1980年毕业于芝加哥大学历史系，获博士学位。1987年至今一直任教于美国东北伊利诺伊大学历史系，现担任该系伯纳德J.布勒梅尔杰出研究教授。研究重点：文艺复兴和近代早期欧洲历史，在法国启蒙运动史方面着力尤多。先后出版四部著作，其中影响大的就是《过去的诞生》，该书奠定了其在美国史学界的重要地位。 梅义征，安徽省太湖县人，历史学博士，现居上海市。历年在期刊、报纸发表各类论文近30篇，出版专著2本，译著2本，主编著作1本，参与编写著作1本。

Editorial Reviews Review Combining erudition with theoretical intelligence, Zachary Schiffman distills a theme, the discovery of 'the past,' that sheds new light on the history of western historical thinking from Herodotus to the eighteenth century. Some readers will disagree with some of Schiffman’s interpretations. All, however, will be stimulated and enlightened. (Allan Megi...(展开全部)