A Jurisprudence of Power

R.W. Kostal is a Professor of Law and History at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on the history of modern law and society in England and the United States. His first book, Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875, was awarded the Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association in 1995.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. 'The Country of Law': Reconstructing the Morant Bay Uprising in England ; 2. 'The Blood that Testifies': The Jamaica Controversy in Jamaica ; 3. The Drawing-Room Men: The Jamaica Controversy in 1866 ; 4. The Tenets of Terror: Reinventing the Law of Martial Law ; 5. Marshalling Martial Law: Litigating the Jamaica Controversy ; 6. 'The Alphabet of Our Liberty': Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey ; 7. 'The Most Law-Loving People in the World': The Denouement of the Jamaica Litigation ; EPILOGUE ; Phillips v. Eyre and the Problem of Martial Law ; CONCLUSION ; A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law ; APPENDIX ; The Jamaica Controversy as Historiography ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

..Kostal's arguments..are insightful, persuasive, and of read scholarly merit.