Of Democrats & Dictators Links, Unit 1: Sir Edward Coke and the Common Law
Rise of the Common Law | Inns of Court | Evolution of Jury System | Raleigh’s Trial |
Coke on the Bench | Chancery | 5 Knights Case & Petition of Right | Later Developments
England Before the Norman Conquest: Being a History of the Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon
Periods Down to the Year A.D. 1066 By Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, K.B.E., M.P.
Origins of the Common Law (A Three-Part Series) by David A. Thomas
Part I: The Disappearance of Roman Law from Dark Age Britain
Part II. Anglo-Saxon Antecedents of the Common Law
Part III: Common Law Under the Early Normans
A Concise History of the Common Law by Theodore F. T. Plucknett
Catholic Encyclopedia: Common Law
1911 Britannica: Inns of Court
Online Encyclopedia: Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634)
1911 Britannica: Henry de Bracton
Catholic Encyclopedia: Henry de Bracton
Bracton Online The complete work of Bracton’s De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ
(on the Laws and Customs of England). In Latin and translated into English.
Wikipedia: Rule in Shelley’s Case
John Maxcy Zane, the Story of Law (1927) Part III: Chapters 11–14 of the classic work on law covers the common law.
Avalon Project: The History of the Common Law of England by Matthew Hale The complete classic text on the common law written in 1713.
Harvard Law School Library: The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The complete classic work on the common law written in 1880.
Canadian Bar Review: Stare Decisis An examination of the role of precedent in modern Canada.
The Evolution of the Jury System
American Bar Association: Trial by Jury: Background Article
Encyclopedia Britannica: Jury System History
Law and History Review: Vicinage and the Antecedents of the Jury A 1999 article by Mike MacNair.
National Jury Center Information on juries in the United States.
Guy Fawkes by David Herber A biography.
Famous Trials in World History Links: Guy Fawkes
“What’s Wrong With the Modern Jury.” A two-part article by law professor Vikram David Amar.
The Trial of Sir Walter Raleigh
1911 Britannica: Sir Walter Raleigh
NNDB: Sir Walter Raleigh A biography.
LexScripta: The Quatercentary of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Trial A long biography of Raleigh with a focus on the trial.
Biography of Sir Walter Raleigh by Christopher Smith
Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight A biography.
Trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, for High Treason An excerpt from the trial transcript.
Yahoo Directory: Sir Walter Raleigh
Open Directory Project: Walter Raleigh
Google Directory: Walter Raleigh
Famous Trials in World History Links: Walter Raleigh (1603)
Biographies of Coke:
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: Edward Coke
Columbia Encyclopedia: Edward Coke
Constitution Society: Selected Works of Edward Coke Text of Coke’s Institutes and Ninth Part of the Reports.
Reviews of Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age by Allen D. Boyer
By John Cramsie, Department of History, Union College
By Christopher W. Brooks, History Department, University of Durham (UK)
Lawschoolhelp.com: Equitable Remedies An overview of the remedies and their history.
Equitable Doctrines and Remedies An outline of a course at the University of Southhampton.
The Case of the Five Knights & The Petition of Right
Britannia: Magna Carta The complete text.
BBC: A brief history of habeas corpus
1911 Britannica: Habeas Corpus
Britannia: The Petition of Right A short introduction and the complete text.
From Revolution to Reconstruction: The Petition of Right (1628) The complete text.
Later Developments in Common Law
Liberty Fund: Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke
Liberty Fund: The Struggle for Sovereignty (PDF file) Many of the primary documents of the 17th century.
History Guide: English Civil War
Google Directory: English Civil War
Wikipedia: Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
Constitution Society: Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 The complete text.
Victorian Web: The Glorious Revolution
Wikipedia: Glorious Revolution
Wikipedia: Commentaries on the Laws of England
From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Biography of William Blackstone (1723–1780)
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England An analysis by Jack W. Brown, Ph.D.
Avalon Project: Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England Complete text.
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769) by Sir William Blackstone Complete text.
Google Directory: William Blackstone
Open Directory Project: William Blackstone
1911 Britannica: Jeremy Bentham
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Jeremy Bentham
Yahoo Directory: Jeremy Bentham
Open Directory Project: Jeremy Bentham
Google Directory: Jeremy Bentham
Bleak House by Charles Dickens An online book.
ClassicNote: Bleak House A study guide.
Cliff Notes: Bleak House A study guide.
