{"product_id":"9789811986987","title":"The Tree of Legal Knowledge: Imagining Blackstone’s Commentaries","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Tree of Legal Knowledge: Imagining Blackstone’s Commentaries\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eOrth, John V.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book restores to view a masterpiece of beauty and legal scholarship, which has been lost for almost two hundred years.  Produced anonymously in 1838, \u003ci\u003eThe Tree of Legal Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e is an elaborate visualization in five large colored plates of the law as stated in Sir William Blackstone’s \u003ci\u003eCommentaries on the Laws of England\u003c\/i\u003e.  Intended as “an assistant for students in the study of law,” the study aid was not a simple diagram but a beautiful tree with each branch and twig labeled with legal terms and concepts from the \u003ci\u003eCommentaries\u003c\/i\u003e.  Not for law students only, the original was also intended to be of use to the practicing attorney and educated gentleman “in consolidating his learning and forming an instructive and ornamental appendage to an office.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Blackstone’s \u003ci\u003eCommentaries \u003c\/i\u003ehad been first published eighty years earlier, it remained the primary source for knowledge of English law and required reading for American law students.  The \u003ci\u003eCommentaries\u003c\/i\u003e remain relevant today and are frequently cited by the U.S. Supreme Court as a source for the original understanding of legal rights and obligations at the time of American Independence.  Despite its artistic beauty and academic significance, \u003ci\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Legal Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e had seemingly disappeared shortly after its publication.  It is not included in the collection of any library, including the Library of Congress or in Yale University’s Blackstone Collection, the largest in the world.  It is not listed in the comprehensive \u003ci\u003eBibliographical Catalog of William Blackstone\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Ann Jordan Laeuchli, published for the Yale Law Library in 2015.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe present volume reproduces the only extant copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Tree of Legal Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e.  It includes an introduction by the editor that places \u003ci\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/i\u003e in historical context and identifies the anonymous author, an otherwise unknown lawyer.  In addition, it reprints the original author’s introduction and “explanation of the branches,” both extensively annotated.  This book restores this lost masterpiece to its proper place in legal history.  \u003ci\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful—and accurate—depiction of English law as expounded in Blackstone’s \u003ci\u003eCommentaries\u003c\/i\u003e, the single most important book in the history of the common law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2024-03-03\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789811986987\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-981-19-8696-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 99.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45385688252556,"sku":"9789811986987","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789811986987.jpg?v=1765569762","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789811986987","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}