A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana
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A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana by Edward Livingston
The Livingston Code A comprehensive system of criminal law which, while not adopted in the United States, is still influential today because it is the first complete penal code built on Jeremy Bentham's principles of codification. From a penal standpoint the code is important as well not only in terms of its completeness and order, but from its perspective of the advancement of crime prevention over punishment. The Code].will certainly arrange your name with the sages of antiquity.--Thomas Jefferson You have done more in giving precision, specification, accuracy and moderation to the system of crimes and punishments 'than any other legislator of the age, and your name will go down to posterity with distinguished honor.--James Kent You will be numbered among the men of this age who have deserved most and best of mankind. --Victor Hugo Edward Livingston is] . . . the first legal genius of modern times.--Henry Sumner Maine Edward Livingston 1764-1836] graduated from Princeton College at the age of 17. He was a senator from New York and later Louisiana. He served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1831-1833.
Livingston, Edward: - Edward H. Livingston, MD is Contributing Editor for JAMAevidence, Deputy Editor for JAMA, and the Clinical Reviews and Education Editor for the JAMA Network. Dr Livingston is also Professor of Surgery at UCLA Medical School and an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University. He previously served as Professor and Chair of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery and Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine. Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the Senior Medical Scientist at Berry Consultants, LLC. Dr. Lewis is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies and a Fellow of both the Society for Clinical Trials and the American Statistical Association.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781616190736 |
| ISBN 10 | 1616190736 |
| Title | A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana |
| Author | Edward Livingston |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
| Year published | 2010-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 758 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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