Corrected typescripts of papers delivered at the Harvard Law School "Conference on the future of the common law" (August 19-21, 1936), 1936.

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Corrected typescripts of papers delivered at the Harvard Law School "Conference on the future of the common law" (August 19-21, 1936), 1936.

1872-1940.

The Harvard law school 'Conference on the future of the common law' was held in Cambridge, on August 19-21, 1936, as one of the symposia which formed part of the celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of Harvard college. The papers delivered at this Conference were later published under the title 'The future of the common law (1937). Bound in at the end is the manuscript greeting of the Association of Legal Science of Keio University, Tokyo and typescripts of 3 remarks delivered at the Conference but omitted from the published Conference papers: Proposals regarding Chinese "extraterritoriality" questions by R. Masujima --Reflections on the Common Law Conference at Harvard, August, 1936 by Charles P. Megan ---Remarks concerning Sir Maurice Amos address, by Horace Emerson Read. Typescripts are annotated by the editor (?)

1 v. ; 35 cm.

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