HARRY POTTER is a criminal barrister and the author of Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death penalty in England form the Bloody Code to Abolition (1993); Blood Feud: The Stewarts and Gordons at War in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (2002); and Edinburgh Under Siege (2003). With Boydell & Brewer, he has authored Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Short History of the Common Law (2015) and Shades of the Prison House: A History of Incarceration in the British Isles (2019).
An enjoyable read.
*PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY*
Potter lacerates the jargon and marches through a long timeline to
produce a slim, superbly written account of the common law.
*LAW SOCIETY GAZETTE*
Full of triumphs, tragedies, comedies, accidents and unintended
consequences [with] an immense cast of characters. ... [A] lively
and opinionated book.
*TIMES*
Harry Potter has a way with words...which make his books impossible
to put down...If you need a good introduction to legal history (all
students of English history do), then read this book.
*FACHRS NEWSLETTER*
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