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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Law Reform in Early Modern England: Crown Parliament and the Press by Barbara J. Shapiro
This book provides an illuminating commentary of law reform in the early modern era (1500–1740) and views the moves to improve law and legal institutions in the context of changing political and governmental environments in this period. It considers two law reform movements: the moderate movement which had a lengthy history and whose chief supporters were the governmental and parliamentary elites and which focused on improving existing law and legal institutions and the radical reform movement which was concentrated in the revolutionary decades and which sought to overthrow the common law the legal profession and the existing system of courts.