Fundamental Values

Kim Economides is Professor of Law at Exeter University. Lammy Betten is a Professor in the School of Law at Exeter University. John Bridge is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter.

• Part 1 Fundamental legal values: what are fundamental legal values?, Kim Economides; legal ethics in the age of Bracton, Anthony Musson; justice as virtue - a subject in the law curriculum?, Hans van de Wouw; the principle of non-discrimination as a fundamental value, Simon Honeybell; competence, independence and integrity - the essence of professionalism?, Jackie Heath. Part 2 Fundamental values in international law: new equality provisions in European law - some thoughts on the fundamental value of equality as a legal principle, Lammy Betten; the rule of law in the legal order of the European Community, Paul Lasok QC; legal subjectivity as a fundamental value - the emergence of non-state actors in Europe, Christopher Harding; towards reconciling free trade and environment, Indira Carr; free trade as a fundamental value in the European Union, Erika Szyszczak; from universal sovereignty to territorial sovereignty - and back? on the flexibility of international law as a fundamental value of the international order, Harry Post. Part 3 Fundamental values in public law: standards, principles and values in the public law of the United Kingdom, John Bridge; fundamental environmental values and public law, John Alder; new fundamentals - new values? change and stability in South Africa, Mervyn Bennun; the value of multiculturalism in Eastern Europe, Istvan Pogany; "culture" as a fundamental value of the German constitution? the kulturstaat debate in German constitutional law, Carola Thielecke. Part 4 Fundamental values in private law: professional negligence - free riders and others, Andrew Tettenborn; fairness in tax law, Robert Mitchell; fundamental values in employment, Vivien Shrubsall; fundamental values in company law, Robert Drury.