The High Court of Parliament and Its Supremacy (1910)

<p>Highly acclaimed when it was published this remains a classic. McIlwain [1871-1968] a professor of history at Harvard University for more than three decades developed—with a particular emphasis on Parliament's role as a judicial body—Pollock and Maitland’s thesis from their landmark work The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895) that Parliament was not a legislature in the modern sense; it was an administrative and judicial instrument of the crown. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the work in a May 8 1918 letter to Harold J. Laski: “... it left me greatly admiring it as an altogether admirable piece of work. It also kept me keenly interested from beginning to end.” Howe Holmes-Laski Letters I:152-153. xxi 408 pp. Reprint of the first edition.</p>