Shaping the Common Law

Thomas Garden Barnes is Professor Emeritus of History and Law at University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the Legal Classics Library for the Gryphon Press. Allen D. Boyer, a lawyer in New York City, serves on the advisory board of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and is the author of Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age (Stanford, 20

• Table of Contents Preface000 Introduction by Allen D. Boyer000 Chapter 1 Glanvill000 Chapter 2 Magna Carta000 Chapter 3 Thomas Littleton000 Chapter 4 John Fortescue000 Chapter 5 Richard Hooker000 Chapter 6 James VI and I000 Chapter 7 Francis Bacon000 Chapter 8 Sir Edward Coke000 Chapter 9 Michael Dalton000 Chapter 10 William Hudson000 Chapter 11 John Selden000 Chapter 12 John Milton000 Chapter 13 The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts000 Chapter 14 Trial of Charles I000 Chapter 15 Matthew Hale000 Further Reading000 Index000

"This illuminating collection is the product of a career spent working with the texts and presenting them in the classroom, with positive results. It is consistently informative, well-written, and entertaining."—Richard H. Helmholtz, University of Chicago Law School "These elegant essays explore the role of legal literature in the development of common law. Clearly written and easily intelligible, they are a very good read." —A.W. Brian Simpson, University of Michigan Law School "A delightful, eloquent, and deeply learned tour of the great writers and books of English legal history! Essential reading for Americanists for whom Glanvill, Littleton, Coke, Dalton, Hale, and Magna Carta are much referenced but often less than well understood." —Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College