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McSweeney, Thomas. Priests of the Law. Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals. Oxford Legal History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-198- 84545-4 (2021)
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White, S. B. (2021). McSweeney, Thomas. Priests of the Law. Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals. Oxford Legal History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-198- 84545-4. Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, 38, 458-463. https://doi.org/10.1353/bmc.2021.0009

This book is Thomas McSweeney's very successful conversion of his PhD thesis, and a volume that contributes a great deal to the discussion of Roman law in England, the development of the Common law, and English legal history more broadly. McSweeney c... Read More about McSweeney, Thomas. Priests of the Law. Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals. Oxford Legal History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-198- 84545-4.

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law (2021)
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Eves, W., Hudson, J., Ivarsen, I., & White, S. B. (2021). Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The... Read More about Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law.