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Law, Liberty and the Constitution - A Brief History of the Common Law
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Introduction
The Promulgation of the Law in Anglo-Saxon England
The Enforcement of the Law in Anglo-Saxon England
A Norman Yoke?
Henry II and the Creation of the Common Law
Becket and Criminous Clergy
The Achievement of Henry II
Magna Carta
From Ordeal to Jury
Legal Eagles
The King's Conscience, the Lord Chancellor's Foot
Star Chamber: Keeping England in Quiet
Torture
The Writ and Charter of Liberty
Rex Lex v Lex Rex: Sir Edward Coke
Oedipus Lex: the Trial of Charles I
Free-Born John
From Restoration to Revolution and Reaction
The Purity of England's Air
The Menace of the Mob
The Fear of the Felon
Garrow's Law?
The Tongue of Cicero: Thomas Erskine
The Drum Major of Liberty: Henry Brougham
The Bonfire of the Inanities: Peel, Public Protection and the Police
Lunacy and the Law
Necessity Knows No Law
The Apollo of the Bar: Edward Marshall Hall
The 'Martyrdom of Adolf Beck' and the Creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal
Liberty Sacrificed to Security
Nuremberg and Norman Birkett
Wrongs and Rights
Deprave and Corrupt: Blasphemy, Obscenity and Oscar Wilde
Hanging in the Balance
A Murder in Catford
The Rule of Law under Threat?
Bibliography

About the Author

HARRY POTTER is a criminal barrister and the author of Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death penalty in England form the Bloody Code to Abolition (1993); Blood Feud: The Stewarts and Gordons at War in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (2002); and Edinburgh Under Siege (2003). With Boydell & Brewer, he has authored Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Short History of the Common Law (2015) and Shades of the Prison House: A History of Incarceration in the British Isles (2019).

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An enjoyable read.
*PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY*

Potter lacerates the jargon and marches through a long timeline to produce a slim, superbly written account of the common law.
*LAW SOCIETY GAZETTE*

Full of triumphs, tragedies, comedies, accidents and unintended consequences [with] an immense cast of characters. ... [A] lively and opinionated book.
*TIMES*

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