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The Origins of Historical Jurisprudence: Coke, Selden, Hale Author(s): Harold J. Berman Source: The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 103, No. 7 (May, 1994), pp. 1651-1738 Published by: The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/797013 Accessed: 11/07/2010 02:32 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ylj. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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The Origins of Historical Jurisprudence: Coke, Selden, Hale Harold J. Bermant
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INTRODUCTION ............................................. I.
THE HISTORICALBACKGROUNDOF ENGLISHLEGAL PHILOSOPHY, .............. .. TWELFTHTO SEVENTEENTHCENTURIES .........
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..... Scholastic Jurisprudence and Its Sixteenth-CenturyRivals .... ....... Richard Hooker's "Comprehensive"Legal Philosophy .... The Legal Theory of Absolute Monarchy: James I and Bodin ......
SIR EDWARD COKE: HIS MAJESTY'S LOYALOPPONENT ....
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A. Coke's Acceptance of James' Premises and the Sources of ............ His Opposition to James' Conclusions .......... .......... B. Coke's Philosophy of English Law ............... C. Coke's Historicism .................................... D. Coke's Concept of the English Common Law as Artificial Reason .... III. JOHN SELDEN'S LEGAL PHILOSOPHY..........................
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t Robert W. WoodruffProfessorof Law, Emory Law School; James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Emeritus,HarvardLaw School. The valuablecollaborationof CharlesJ. Reid, Jr., ResearchAssociate in Law and History,Emory Law School, is gratefullyacknowledged.
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Coke to Selden to Hale ........ ......................... Selden 's Historicity Versus Coke's Historicism ..... ............ The Consensual Character of Moral Obligations .... ........... The Origins of Positive Law in Customary Law ......