James Kent lived from 1763 to 1847 and served as Chancellor of New York from 1814 to 1823, after which he became the first professor of law at Columbia College. His four-volume Commentaries on American Law (1826 to 1830), covering international law, the federal constitutional structure, and the private law of persons and property, became the most widely read American legal treatise of the nineteenth century and earned him recognition as one of the principal founders of American common-law jurisprudence, often called the American Blackstone.
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James Kent was a jurist whose decisions and written commentaries shaped the inchoate common law in the formative years of the United States and also influenced jurisprudence in England and other common-law countries.
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His four-volume Commentaries on American Law (1826 to 1830), covering international law, the federal constitutional structure, and the private law of persons and property, became the most widely read American legal treatise of the nineteenth century and earned him recognition as one of the principal founders of American common-law jurisprudence, often called the American Blackstone.
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