02182nam a22003498a 4500 CR9780511782152 UkCbUP 20180107143413.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511782152 (ebook) 9781107000377 (hardback) 9780521188517 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda K370 .H88 2011 340/.115 22 Hutchinson, Allan C., author. Is Eating People Wrong? : Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World / [electronic resource] Allan C. Hutchinson. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law as well as the characters and institutions (lawyers, judges and courts) that did much of the heavy lifting. By examining the consequences and fallout of these decisions, the book depicts the common law as an experimental, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalizing and bottom-up process, thereby revealing the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions and shifting demands. Great cases are one way to glimpse the workings of the common law as an untidy but stimulating exercise in human judgment and social accomplishment. Sociological jurisprudence Rule of law Common law Print version: 9781107000377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782152 Cambridge Books Online 236537 236537