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It's a textbook, not a case book. Tim Send a noteboard - 02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM
Don't know if that makes any difference in your eyes...

Also, we never read the whole book in most classes in law school. They would have us read something like pp. 100-350, then 400-925, then 1100-1128.


Indeed, that is usually the case with us. Which is why I couldn't count most of my reading towards the 50-book challenge – unfairly in my view, as all the time I spent reading law books was time I didn't spend reading other books. I just decided it would be a good idea to read the whole book before my exam. Especially since it says in the introduction that it's best read as a whole.

About law books not counting: if you read a non-fiction pop-science book, doesn't that count? So why is this different?

Does your contract case book have the famous Hadley v. Baxendale? It's been used as a precedent all around the world, which makes sense considering it was an English decision based on an American translation of a Frenchman's analysis of the Code of Justinian.


Yes, that is one we covered. English decisions based on American translations of French analyses of Roman law are even used in Scotland :P.

I think it's interesting that recent decisions like The Achilleas (2008) have swung back to the original principles of Baxendale, which date from 1854, after a bit of deviation in recent decades.

P.S. I read your profile, which I couldn't get to load yesterday. Nice list. I need to get back into reading stuff in Greek. I am going to try and get the Loeb side-by-side translation of Lucian's A True Story (?????? ??????????) next year.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.

—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.

—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
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