Quotes by Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
1897 – 1965
Theodore Plucknett (1897-1965) was an English legal historian. In 1923 he was appointed by Roscoe Pound as professor of legal history at Harvard Law School where he remained until 1931. He was then appointed to the first chair of Legal History at the London where he remained until his retirement in 1963.
Law
Plucknett contrasts the flexibility and adaptability of customary law with the rigidity and remoteness of state legislation (1956)
Law
Plucknett on the Renaissance state’s “war against the idea of law” (1956)