Duncan Spiers – författare

How does law protect your ideas and privacy in Scotland and the UK? The Scots common law of property is strongly realist in its concepts, and restricts itself to tangible objects – objects, land, things attached to the land. But what about non-physical property, such as your intellectual property and your private personal information? These types of property are of increasing importance in this technological age. From copyright to patents, from data protection to freedom of information, and from e-commerce to cybercrime, Intellectual Property Law Essentials explains how UK statue law protects and regulates your information and ideas. End-of-chapter summaries of essential facts highlight the key things you should have learned, and summaries of essential cases show how the law is enforced in practice.

Our possessions have enormous value to us – both in terms of economic value and in their significance to us. Property law in Scotland is a large, complex and important area of law, governing all manners of rights and obligations concerning money, goods, land, intellectual property and other types of possessions. Duncan Spiers explains the various ways in which people can take possession of different types of property, retain control over them, transfer them and recover possession of them when dispossessed of them. He defines all of the key concepts that students will need to understand in clear language, and then goes on to show how property law applies to different types of property. Summary sections of essential facts help you to identify and understand the key elements of the subject, and summaries of essential cases show how property law has been enforced and how it has evolved.

Law students traditionally find the methods of jurisprudence – which range across philosophical and sociological approaches to law – more difficult than ‘black-letter’ law subjects. With few cases, confusing questions and no correct answers, it can be difficult to draw a balanced view. Now, Duncan Spiers explains the main ideas of jurisprudence in the order that law students usually encounter them on their courses. By extracting the main arguments that lie at the heart of the different positions, he makes it clear what the strong central themes and implications are. From natural law to justifying punishment, and from Marxism to feminism, students will gain a firm grasp of theories behind jurisprudence. End-of-chapter summaries clearly define the essential concepts covered to help you to understand the different ideas and intellectual positions.