Contribution of Sir Edward Coke in English Historical School of Jurisprudence

Abstract

Sir Edward Coke- leader of the English House of Commons and ‘wisest jurist of the age’- writing at a time when ‘the wisest fool in Christendom’ sat upon the Enlgish throne, and asserted the strong conviction that the primary source of the validity of law-including both its moral validity and its political validity-is its historical character, its source in the customs and traditions of the community whose law it is.