Brauch, Jeffrey A.

Is higher law common law? readings on the influence of Christian thought in Anglo-American law by Jeffrey A. Brauch. - Littleton, Colo. F.B. Rothman 1999. - xvi, 429 p. 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xiv)

Higher law thinking: man's law is based on and evaluated by the law of God - - The shift from higher law thinking to legal relativism - - Introduction to the common law - - Civil and criminal procedure - - Property - - Criminal law - - Torts - - Contracts - - Christian reconstruction - - Dispensationalism - - Some middle ground - - Christian Libertarianism: a minimal legal code - - God's law as a moral influence on man's law.

0837703670 (cloth : alk. paper)


Common Law--Philosophy.--United States
Religion and law--Great Britain.
Common Law--Philosophy.--Great Britain
Religion and law--United States.

KF 380 / .B62 1999