For Further Reading
Blackstone Exhibit
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Works Written about William Blackstone and the Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book-Length Biographies:
David A Lockmiller, Sir William Blackstone (1938).
Lewis C. Warden, The Life of Blackstone (1938).
Other Books:
Daniel J. Boortin, The Mysterious Science of the Law (1973).
Frederick Hicks, Men and Books Famous in the Law (1921).
Articles:
Albert W. Alschuler, Sir William Blackstone and the Shaping of American Law, 144 New L.J. 896 (1994).
Albert W. Alschuler, Rediscovering Blackstone, 145 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1 (1996).
Hamilton W. Bryon, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 25 Am. J. Legal Hist. 75 (1981).
Anton-Hermann Chroust, Blackstone Revisited, 17 U. Kan. City L. Rev. 24 (1949).
Neil Duxbury, How Blackstone Lost the Colonies: English Law, Colonial Lawyers and the American Revolution, 12 J. Legal Hist. 282 (1991).
A.V. Dicey, Blackstone’s Commentaries, 4 Cambridge L.J. 286 (1932).
W.S. Holdsworth, Some Aspects of Blackstone and His Commentaries, 4 Cambridge L.J. 261 (1932).
David Lemmings, Blackstone and law Reform by Education: Preparation for the Bar and Lawyerly Culture in Eighteenth-Century England, 16 Law & Hist. Rev. 211 (1998).
Joseph W. McKnight, Blackstone, Quasi-Jurisprudent, 8 Sw. L.J. 399 (1959).
Harold R. Medina, Book Review, Blackstone’s Commentaries With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Virginia, by George Tucker (reprinted 1969), 70 Colum. L. Rev. 1475 (1970).
Bernadette Meyler, Towards a Common Law Orginalism, 59 Stan. L. Rev. 551 (2006).
Dennis R. Nolan, Sir William Blackstone and the New American Republic: A Study of Intellectual Impact, 51 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 731 (1976).
William Blake Odgers, Sir William Blackstone, 27 Yale L.J. (1917-1918).
James M. Ogden, Lincoln’s Early Impressions of the Law in Indiana, 7 Notre Dame L. Rev. 325 (1931-32).
Robert Lee Stone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 8 Hastings Const. L.J. 945 (1981).