Midday Seminar: Blackstone's View of the Common Law
Audience:
Restricted to Princeton graduate students, faculty, and fellowsSpeaker(s):
Wilfrid Prest, Emeritus Professor of History and of Law, University of Adelaide, Australia; LAPA Fellow 2001-2002
Sponsor:
RSVP REQUIRED.
Professor Prest will be discussing 'Blackstone's View of the Common Law' - this is based on [his] multiple re-readings of the Commentaries in the course of the editorial process. It emphasizes the extent to which Blackstone was presenting a critical, reformist slant on the legal and political institutions of his time, entirely contrary to Bentham's caricature of 'everything-is-as-it-should-be Blackstone'.
http://lapa.princeton.edu/content/blackstones-view-common-law