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Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors

Alan Watson
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      Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors examines the decisions of Supreme Court justice and Harvard law professor Joseph Story (1779–1845). According to Alan Watson, Story erred in his interpretation of Dutchman Ulrich Huber’s theory of comity—the respect accorded by one sovereignty to another sovereignty’s laws. Watson suggests that it is because of Story’s misinterpretation that the Dred Scott case went before the United States Supreme Court, whose notorious ruling against Scott fed directly into heated sectional conflict that culminated in the Civil War. Demonstrating the odd twists and turns that legal development sometimes takes, the book is also a fascinating case study that reveals much about the relationship of law to society.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alan Watson EAN: 9780820341507 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 333 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Georgia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-10-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Conflict of Laws, LAW / Legal History WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Law, History of the Americas

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      Alan Watson, Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the University of Georgia School of Law, USA is regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion.
      Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors examines the decisions of Supreme Court justice and Harvard law professor Joseph Story (1779–1845). According to Alan Watson, Story erred in his interpretation of Dutchman Ulrich Huber’s theory of comity—the respect accorded by one sovereignty to another sovereignty’s laws. Watson suggests that it is because of Story’s misinterpretation that the Dred Scott case went before the United States Supreme Court, whose notorious ruling against Scott fed directly into heated sectional conflict that culminated in the Civil War. Demonstrating the odd twists and turns that legal development sometimes takes, the book is also a fascinating case study that reveals much about the relationship of law to society.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alan Watson EAN: 9780820341507 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 333 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Georgia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-10-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Conflict of Laws, LAW / Legal History WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Law, History of the Americas

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      Alan Watson, Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the University of Georgia School of Law, USA is regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion.

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