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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

The American law school where Dicey originally delivered the lectures on English legal history that became the basis of this book.

The lectures delivered at Harvard were the basis of courses of lectures which, after having undergone sometimes expansion and sometimes curtailment, have Edition:

preface to the first edition ¶

In 1898 I accepted an invitation to deliver to the students of the Harvard Law School a short course of lectures on the History of English Law during the last century.

preface to the first edition ¶

Eliot, the eminent predecessor at Harvard of President Lowell, suggests to a certain extent the mode by which this end may be accomplished.

conclusions ¶

The Law of Torts19th Century · English

Institution where the author observed lessons later put to practical use in the book.

Of Harvard and its Law School I will say only this, that I have endeavoured to turn to practical account the lessons of what I saw and heard there, and that this present book is in some measure the outcome of that endeavour.

to the honourable oliver wendell holmes junr a jus ¶