Construction and Expansion of Common Law

📋 Course Outline

1. Norman Conquest and Legal Transition
2. Before 1066: Local Customary Law
3. Royal Unification and Feudal Order
4. Royal Courts and Itinerant Justice
5. Henri II and Judicial Systematization
6. Procedure, Writs and Jury
7. Doctrine and the Jurisprudential Foundation
8. Consolidation Against Equity and Statutes
9. Precedent, Reform and Judicial Authority
10. Global Reception of English Law
11. Colonial Adaptation and Legal Diversity

📅 Key Dates

1. 1066Is the symbolic date at which most legal historians locate the beginning of the common-law model, following the Norman conquest of England.
2. 1166The centenary of the Norman conquest, Henry II began a major process of centralization and systematization of English justice.
3. 1675Under Chancellor Nottingham, equity became bound by judicial precedent, limiting its earlier risk of arbitrariness.

📖 1. Norman Conquest and Legal Transition

📝 Essential Points