id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_5mlsctddbbg4tmsaeakv2lhham Christopher Tomlins In This Issue 1999 3 .pdf application/pdf 1255 60 43 this issue of the Law and History Review we pay our respects to the roots importance in the broad continuum of Anglo-American legal history, reaching from the nineteenth century back to the ninth. science and scientific method to which nineteenth-century American legal legal science of Kent and Story, treating "law" as a species of natural object. for the Protestant Baconian conception of science did not survive the Civil War. In law, Schweber argues, the story is a little different. to continue to invoke the powerful idea of "legal science," Christopher Columbus Langdell assembled the remnants of the Protestant Baconian approach into his case method. English trial and post-trial proceedings in cases of murder during the nineteenth century, resulting in an elucidation of several developments of considerable importance to the history of English criminal law. significant tension between judges increasingly determined to repress inCore terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. ./cache/work_5mlsctddbbg4tmsaeakv2lhham.pdf ./txt/work_5mlsctddbbg4tmsaeakv2lhham.txt