| Popis: |
Clive Holmes, it has been noted on more than one occasion, asks clever questions. At conferences and in seminars, Clive is always among the first to interrogate the paper-giver. Clive’s work has therefore been wide-ranging, powerfully argued, and professedly unfashionable. For Clive, it is axiomatic that teaching is the bedrock of intellectual life, and it is in his teaching that many of his modes of working can be seen to have developed. The variety of Clive’s interests are, perhaps, inherently intellectually fruitful; they have provided him with multiple perspectives, points of comparison, and a deep distrust of sectional or professional special pleading. This is most obvious in his writings on legal history. Few would have the confidence to criticise the pre-eminent modern historian of English law for offering a ‘largely internalist’ reading of legal change, one indicative of the extent to which he has ‘internalized’ the ‘professional complacency’ of early modern legal writers. |
