Common law & legal systems: general commentary

o       Arnheim, M., Principles of the common law (St John’s: Duckworth, 2004)

o       Atkinson, P., The Canadian Justice System: An Overview (Markham: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2005)

o       Boyd, N., Canadian Law: An Introduction, 4th ed. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007)

o       Demakos, A., Your Guide to Canadian Law: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions (Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006)

o       Gall, G., The Canadian Legal System, 5th ed. (Scarborough: Thomson Carswell, 2004)

o       Horner, J., Canadian law and the Canadian legal system (Toronto: Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2007)

o       Juratowitch, B., Retroactivity and the common law (Portland: Hart, 2008) 

 

o       Duxbury, N., The nature and authority of precedent (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

o       Edlin, D., Common Law Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

o       MacCormick, N., Institutions of law: an essay in legal theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

o       White & Willock, The Scottish Legal System, 3rd ed. rev. (Haywards Heath: Tottel Pub., 2006)

 

o       Calabresi, G., A Common Law for the Age of Statutes (Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 1999)

o       Edlin, D., Common law theory (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

 

o       McPherson , B., The reception of English law abroad (Brisbane: Supreme Court Library of Queensland, 2007)

 

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School - Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England

 

Britton – An English translation and notes

 

The Commonwealth of England as the De Republica Anglorum