The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, Volume. I

by Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (Editor)

This anthology of the writings of Edward Coke is designed to present a sampling of the works that chronicle his career and its influence on issues of law, constitutions, politics, government, economics, and liberty. In culling from the vast corpus of his writings, some materials, such as cases dealing with the struggle for judicial independence and jurisdictional primacy in the courts of law, are overrepresented as a portion of his works. Other materials, such as his writings on English history, titles, and estates, are quite underrepresented. Regretably, argument and opinions of Coke’s reported by others have been omitted owing to the limits of space and cost. It is hoped that a collected scholarly edition of his works may one day remedy these and the other omissions that were necessary to achieve an edition even as short as the present one. The emphasis of this edition being on the influence of his works, it is constructed largely from the writings as they were printed in his generation and the next, without regard to a new comparison to the references that will one day be mandatory for a thorough reappraisal of his works, when such an edition is attempted.

(From the Introduction)

607 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

About the author

Sir Edward Coke, SL, was Attorney General for England and Wales under Elizabeth I, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench under James I.

Reviews

[Dudley Ryder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read Coke all the morning, comprehended what I read very well. Pretty well pleased with the law. Hope I shall be able to make something of it.