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This volume provides an introduction and analysis of the rules of private international law, also known as the conflict of laws, as they apply in England, examining the impact of the post-Brexit period.

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Fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, the authoritative reference point for the state of comparative law today. The Handbook contains forty-eight chapters, each written by a leading expert and providin...

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This collection of readings places side by side the principal doctrines of contracts, torts, unjust enrichment, and property in the cases of the United States, England, France, Germany and China. It presents code provisions, cases, and other legal...

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Den 28 januari 2018 avled Jan Ramberg, professor vid juridiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet. Denna minnespublikation hedrar professor Rambergs enastående livslånga bidrag till privaträtten. Jan Ramberg var en praktiserande advokat i 15 år...

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Private Security and the Law, Fourth Edition, is a unique resource that provides a comprehensive analysis of practices in the security industry as they relate to law, regulation, licensure, and constitutional questions of case and statutory author...

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Each volume in this series contains the case abstracts and opinions proffered by the court within a given time period. Cases in each volume are listed in the prefatory table.

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Cheating is deeply embedded in everyday life. The costs of the most common forms of cheating total close to a trillion dollars annually. With Cheating, eminent legal scholar Deborah Rhode offers the only recent comprehensive account of cheating in...

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The notion of a civil wrong is one of the most fundamental concepts in private law. Without the concept of a civil wrong, areas of private law like tort law or property law would not be able to fulfil their aims. This volume brings together a wide...

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This title uses contemporary political theories to address fundamental questions on European contract law. It also places these theories in the context of the current European contract law landscape. This book highlights future options for contrac...

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A comprehensive examination of the new Brussels IIb Regulation (2019/1111) which covers jurisdiction, decisions in matrimonial matters, matters of parental responsibility, and international child abduction. This book analyses every provision of th...

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Trust law is one of the most important innovations of the law of equity. This volume explores foundational questions and key issues underlying the law of trust, including the rights of trustees, the risk of abuse, and trusts as objects of justific...

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This edited volume engages with John Gardner's philosophical work on private law. It assembles a group of contributors with diverse theoretical commitments and acts as a reference point for central debates in private law theory, such as the role o...

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In this work, Adam Slavny explores our moral duties to respond to wrongs and harms, and defends the significance of these duties for the normative foundations of tort law.

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This volume provides legal practitioners and scholars with a clear and comprehensive exposition of the legal principles governing contributory negligence.

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This is the fourth edition of the leading authority on the law and practice of civil costs. It has been substantially revised to accommodate changes in the law and is an essential resource for judges, solicitors, counsel, and other costs practitio...

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This book develops the idea that standing is a distinct and separable private law concept that can and should be distinguished more clearly from the more dominant concept of a 'right.' By recognising standing's distinctiveness, debates within priv...

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This book examines judicial power as an integral part of America's increasingly anxious and intolerant society. Nagel argues that judicial decisions are often an effort to stifle diagreement and to censor important beliefs and important traditions...

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Many critics attack federal judges as anti-democratic elitists, activists out of step with the mainstream of American thought. But others argue that judges should stand alone as the ultimate guardians of American values, placing principle before t...

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Giving an in-depth analysis of the doctrine of Forum Non Conveniens as it has evolved, this book focuses on four major common law countries - UK, US, Canada, and Australia. It analyses the similarities and differences of the doctrine among those f...

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The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has become an important forum for international commercial arbitration, with parties from more than 30 countries, especially Western European countries and increasingly Russia, other E...

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In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theo...

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In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in the U.S. over the last few decades,...

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This book is the first full-length description of, and commentary on, Jeremy Bentham's unique utilitarian theory of justice. The book is unusual for defending Bentham's views on the subject, rescuing him from the caricatures which have persisted s...

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This is the first book to systematically examine the underlying theory of evidence in Anglo-American legal systems. Stein develops a detailed and innovative theory which sets aside the traditional vision of evidence law as facilitating the discove...

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The pleading and proof of foreign law are often treated as matters of peripheral importance. But, in reality, how foreign law is established, and whether it must be established at all, are central issues in private international law. Whether litig...

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This book serves two purposes. First it provides a history of the main institutions of South African private law and second, it explores the process through which the integration of English common law and continental civil law was achieved in that...

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This collection of essays by leading commentators on civil justice is an attempt to assess the present state of civil procedure in the UK and the possible impact of proposals recently put forward by Lord Woolf. In addition, the essays deal with th...

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When potential litigants first approach a lawyer they are generally interested in finding out one thing only: are they likely to be able to win damages or any other kind of remedy and what kind of quantum of damages are they likely to receive? It ...

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The small claims procedure is now seen as a convenient way of tackling the current crisis in civil justice and with a massive increase in the small claims limit from 1,000 to 3,000 small claims is big judicial business. This book reports on the mo...

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This refreshing collection of essays deals with the academic discipline of law as an enterprise which includes not only education, but also scholarship, legal theorizing, and the production of legal literature. The drawing together of these essays...

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