Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws. Smith**

Name: Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws. Smith**
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the LawsReligion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 15781616\nAuthor(s): David Chan Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107069299, 978-1107069299\nSynopsis\nThroughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new int.