Blackstone’s inclination to academic studies, the application of the Ab ovo doctrine to legal education, and the needs of both a new audience and a new reading public cohered in the Commentaries, which is the most important eighteenth-century “educational innovation” in legal studies. The Commentaries represent an important text both for legal scholars and linguists. Despite Blackstone’s claim that the way of articulating the law – be it viva voce […], by writing, printing, or the like – was “a matter of great indifference” as long as legal procedures were conveyed through outer signs, the author’s awareness of the intrinsic relevance of the Commentaries as a written form of discourse challenged the traditional distinction between “the lex non scripta, the unwritten, or common law; and the lex scripta, the written, or statute law.” The book was unquestionably the outcome of a chasm, which was both ideological and discursive.

New provinces of writing and legal education: law, language and society in Blackstone's Commentaries, 2019.

New provinces of writing and legal education: law, language and society in Blackstone's Commentaries

Logaldo, Mara;
2019-01-01

Abstract

Blackstone’s inclination to academic studies, the application of the Ab ovo doctrine to legal education, and the needs of both a new audience and a new reading public cohered in the Commentaries, which is the most important eighteenth-century “educational innovation” in legal studies. The Commentaries represent an important text both for legal scholars and linguists. Despite Blackstone’s claim that the way of articulating the law – be it viva voce […], by writing, printing, or the like – was “a matter of great indifference” as long as legal procedures were conveyed through outer signs, the author’s awareness of the intrinsic relevance of the Commentaries as a written form of discourse challenged the traditional distinction between “the lex non scripta, the unwritten, or common law; and the lex scripta, the written, or statute law.” The book was unquestionably the outcome of a chasm, which was both ideological and discursive.
Inglese
2019
2018
Battisti, Chiara; Fiorato, Sidia
Law and the humanities: cultural perspectives
17
249
274
26
978-3-11-066963-3
978-3-11-067026-4
Germany
Berlin
De Gruyter
comitato scientifico
internazionale
A stampa
Settore L-LIN/12 - Lingua e Traduzione - Lingua Inglese
Settore ANGL-01/C - Lingua, traduzione e linguistica inglese
Contributo interdisciplinare (giurisprudenza, letteratura inglese, linguistica inglese)
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