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Blackstone's Magna Carta
William Blackstone was a prominent judge, jurist, and politician during the mid-eighteenth century and, as a professor at Oxford, was the first to lecture on the subject of English law at any university. His encyclopedic but clearly written treatise on common law, Commentaries on the Laws of England, replaced Coke's Institutes as the principal textbook for students of law. In 1759, Blackstone produced the first modern critical edition of the many versions of Magna Carta that were issued between 1215 and 1297. |