Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830–1970 by Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 483pp (£85 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-107-19889-0. It is commonly assumed that English commercial law was largely a creation of common law courts. In a superb work of legal history, Professor Cranston convincingly challenges this assumption. English commercial law was, he argues, largely created through the practices of commercial parties, not the decisions of commercial judges. This conclusion is reached through an examination of the transactions of commercial parties over a period of 140 years …
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Catharine MacMillan, Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830–1970 by Ross Cranston, Legal Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2023, pp 197-199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2022.46. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2023.
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