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The Influence of Religion on Law. By the Rt. Hon. Lord Denning. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology & Public Policy061997. Pp.57. $10.00. ISBN: 1-896-36308-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Andrew Phang
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 719 - 723
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2000

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References

1. See Central London Property Trust Ltd. v. High Trees House Ltd. K.B. 180(1947)Google Scholar.

2. See e.g. Davies, P. & Freedland, M., Labour Law in Lord Denning: The Judge and the Law (Jowell, J.L. & McAuslan, P.W.B., eds., Sweet & Maxwell 1984)Google Scholar.

3. The papers constitute the core of the entire 1999 volume of the Denning Law Journal published by Buckingham Law School. Sadly, Lord Denning passed away a few weeks later, on 5 March 1999. Had he lived to greet the new millennium, he would have witnessed three centuries; alas, that was not to be.

5. See e.g. Dworkin, R.M., Law's Empire 78–85 (Harv. U. Press 1986)Google Scholar; and, by the same author, Law, Philosophy and Interpretation, 80 Archiv fur Rechts-und Sozialphilosophie 463, 474–475 (1994)Google Scholar and Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It, 25 Philosophy & Public Affairs 87 (1996)Google Scholar. Cf. Phang, A., Security of Contract and the Pursuit of Fairness, 16 J. Contract L. 158, 166et seq. (2000)Google Scholar.

6. See e.g. Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law (Beatson, J. & Friedmann, D., eds., (Clarendon Press 1995)Google Scholar and Good Faith in Contract—Concept and Context (Hird, & Howells, G., eds., Dartmouth Publg. Co. Ltd. 1999)Google Scholar; as well as Phang, supra n. 5, 186-188 (and the literature cited therein).

7. See (1932) A.C. 562, 580.

8. See Phang, supra n. 5, especially 166 et seq. See Phang, A., The Natural Law Foundations of Lord Denning's Thought and Work, Denning L.J. 159 (1999)Google Scholar.

9. See generally Phang, The Natural Law Foundations, supra n. 8, especially 177.

10. See Kirby, M., Judicial Activist and Moral Fundamentalist, New L.J. 382, 383 (1999)Google Scholar, where he summarizes the substance as well as (more importantly) the less than enthusiastic responses to my paper, The Natural Law Foundations, supra n. 8.

11. See supra n. 5.

12. See, in relation to the Christian literary scholar and philosopher, Lewis, C.S., Blamires, H., Teaching the Universal Truth-C.S. Lewis among the Intellectuals in The Pilgrim's Guide: C.S. Lewis and the Art of Witness 15, 17–19 (Mills, D., ed., Wm. B. Eerdmans Publg. Co. 1998)Google Scholar. Not coincidentally, perhaps, both Lewis and Denning studied at Oxford University, with Lewis continuing as an academic there, moving later to a Chair at Cambridge University.

13. See supra n. 9.

14. See Heward, E., Lord Denning (Barry Rose Publishers Ltd, 2nd ed. 1997)Google Scholar and Freeman, I., Lord Denning-A Life (Hutchinson 1993)Google Scholar. See also P. Robson & P. Watchman, eds., Justice, Lord Denning and the Constitution (Gower 1981) as well as the works cited at supra, nn. 2 & 3.

15. I would highly recommend Denning's own biography, The Family Story (Butterworths 1981)Google Scholar as well as The Discipline of Law (Butterworths 1979)Google Scholar. See also The Due Process of Law (Butterworths 1980)Google Scholar; What Next in the Law (Butterworths 1982)Google Scholar; The Closing Chapter (Butterworths 1983)Google Scholar; and Landmarks in the Law (Butterworths 1984)Google Scholar.