Author talk:Edwin Charles Clark

Sources

Name: Edwin Charles Clark
Birth - Death: 1836-
Source Citation:

• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)

Allicone's Supplement

Clark, Edwin Charles, M.A., LL.D., b. 1836; educated at Richmond School, Yorkshire, at Shrewsbury, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where be was chancellor's medallist, senior classic, and seventh senior optime; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn I860; appointed Regius professor of civil law in the University of Cambridge in 1873. 1. Early Roman Law: The Regal Period, Cambridge, 1872, p. 8vo.

"Mr. Clark has brought together a great mass of valuable matter in an accessible form; out we could have wished that he had enhanced his arguments by a freer use of the comparative method." Sot Rev., xxxiii. 570.

2. An Analysis of Criminal Liability, Cambridge, 1880, cr. 8vo. 3. Practical Jurisprudence: a Comment on Austin, Cambridge, 1883, p. 8vo.

"His main objection to Austin's method is that he neglects and ignores or, rather, leads other people to neglect and ignore the history of the institutions which he defines." Acad., xxiv. 106.

4. Cambridge Legal Studies, Lon., 1888, 12mo.