Blackstone and his Commentaries

Wilfrid Prest, Professor Emeritus in History and Law at the University of Adelaide, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

• I LIFE 1 Blackstone and Biography Wilfrid Prest2 A‘Model of the Old House’: Architecture in Blackstone’s Life and Commentaries Carol Matthews3 ‘A Mighty Consumption of Ale’: Blackstone, Buckler and All Souls College, Oxford Norma Aubertin-Potter4 William Blackstone and William Prynne: An Unlikely Association? Ian DoolittleII THOUGHT 5 Blackstone on Judging John H Langbein6 Blackstone’s Rules for the Construction of Statutes John V Orth7 Blackstone and Bentham on the Law of Marriage Mary Sokol8 Coverture and Unity of Person in Blackstone’s Commentaries Tim Stretton9 Blackstone’s Commentaries on Colonialism: Australian Judicial Interpretations Thalia Anthony10 Restoring the ‘Real’ to Real Property Law: A Return to Blackstone? Nicole GrahamIII INFLUENCE 11 American Blackstones Michael Hoeflich12 Did Blackstone get the Gallic Shrug? John Emerson13 Blackstone in Germany Horst DippelIV SOURCES 14 Bibliography Morris Cohen15 Iconography JH Baker and Wilfrid Prest

[A] splendid collection … it is remarkable how well the various chapters complement each other. The book repays reading as a whole