A First Book of Jurisprudence for Students of the Common Law

by Frederick Pollock

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172 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1994

About the author

Sir Frederick Pollock, English jurist and law historian

Reviews

[k · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly, the book was just very dry, and very boring. That is to be expected with this sort of literature, but I have other issues as well. Pollock contradicts himself a decent bit, and when he can’t get a point to fit within his weird, ultra-scientific, jurisprudential argument, he just brushes it off like oh this is too complex to get into now. Also, his disdain for custom irked me. Overall, some parts were kinda interesting, and I did learn, so two stars is fair.