I Life -- 1 Blackstone and Biography - Wilfrid Prest -- 2 A 'Model of the Old House': Architecture in Blackstone's Life and Commentaries - Carol Matthews -- 3 'A Mighty Consumption of Ale': Blackstone, Buckler, and All Souls College, Oxford - Norma Aubertin-Potter -- 4 William Blackstone and William Prynne: an Unlikely Association? - Ian Doolittle -- II Thought -- 5 Blackstone on Judging - John H Langbein -- 6 Blackstone's Rules for the Construction of Statutes - John V Orth -- 7 Blackstone and Bentham on the Law of Marriage - Mary Sokol -- 8 Coverture and Unity of Person in Blackstone's Commentaries -Tim Stretton -- 9 Blackstone's Commentaries on Colonialism: Australian Judicial Interpretations - Thalia Anthony -- 10 Restoring the 'Real' to Real Property Law: A Return to Blackstone? - Nicole Graham -- III Influence -- 11 American Blackstones - Michael Hoeflich -- 12 Did Blackstone get the Gallic Shrug? - John Emerson -- 13 Blackstone in Germany - Horst Dippel -- IV Sources -- 14 Bibliography - Morris Cohen -- 15 Iconography - J H Baker and Wilfrid Prest.