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Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights

Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights From Magna Carta to Modernity

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Publisher's Synopsis

While challenges to authority are generally perceived as destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays, with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to legal authority - over time, geographical place, and subject matters both public and private - this volume demonstrates that challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights actually change the existing legal order rather than destroying it. The chapters further explore how the myth of Magna Carta emerged and its role in the pre-modern world; how challenges to authority formed the basis of the recognition of rights in particular areas within England; and how challenges to authority resulted in the recognition of particular rights in the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany. This is a uniquely insightful thematic collection which proposes a new view into the processes of legal change.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781108429238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 342.42029
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 358
Weight: 632g
Height: 365mm
Width: 234mm
Spine width: 24mm