Posted by Todd Zywicki: Program on Lord Mansfield and the Common Law at the Time of the Framers:
My (temporary) Georgetown colleague Jim Oldham will be speaking next week in Washington, DC on "Judicial Activism in English Common Law at the Time of the Founders." Details can be found [1]here. Jim is perhaps the leading living scholar on Lord Mansfield, who is also one of my favorite judges of all time. I discuss him extensively in my recently-published article on [2]"The Rise and Fall of Efficiency in the Common Law" as perhaps the pivotal figure in the development of the modern common law and perhaps more responsible than any other individual for the development of the efficiency-enhancing rules of the common law. The description of the program seems a bit off-key based on what I know of Mansfield--I'm not sure what his crucial innovations in incorporating the law merchant practices into the law of contract and negotiable instruments has to do with abortion rights and the Warren Court--but the combination of Oldham and Mansfield promises to be a terrific program. References 1. http://www.acsblog.org/news-and-announcements-896-february-15thdc-lawyer-chapter-program-on-judicial-activism.html#discussion 2. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=326740 _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
