The Impact of Institutions and Professions on Legal Development - Softcover

Mitchell, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107475619 ISBN 13: 9781107475618

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Legal professions and legal institutions have a profound influence on the direction and form of legal change, but it is often difficult to identify exactly how and why such influence has been exerted. Even those individuals directly involved in bringing about changes may not realise the full impact of professional and institutional factors, since these factors often form part of the participants' own assumed roles. This collection of essays casts light on how one particularly important legal category, fault liability, has been shaped by legal professions and institutions between 1850 and 2000. Its unique comparative approach highlights how different legal systems generate very different pressures for change, and how actors' perceptions of their own roles can have a profound effect on how changes take effect.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Mitchell is Professor of Law at University College London. He has published widely on the historical development of the common law of obligations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107475619
• ISBN 13: 9781107475618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254