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Doctors’s Commons, a society of lawyers ecclesiastical and admiralty law
A must-read interview.

Andy Post discusses his article about the Newfoundland cod fishery and the evolution of early modern legal systems, detailing how English Admiralty Courts relied on Roman civil law for maritime issues rather than domestic common law.

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