Clarendon Law Lectures – serie
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Three Essays on Torts
Inbunden, 2021
1290 kr
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This book of essays champions tort scholarship that puts judges at centre stage: what they do, how they understand their role, the heterogeneous reasons they give for their decisions, and their constitutional responsibility to identify and articulate the 'living' and 'evolving' common law. This is …
Constitutional Agency
Av Philip Sales
Inbunden, 2026
1384 kr
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Constitutional Agency offers a compelling interpretation of the United Kingdom's constitutional order by a figure central to its operation. Drawing on his 2025 Clarendon Law Lectures, Philip Sales (Lord Sales) sets out a vision of the origins, values, and future of the UK constitution animated by …
Law and Legal Theory in England and America
Inbunden, 1997
1848 kr
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Richard Posner is famous throughout the legal world for his pioneering and controversial espousal of the belief that the study of law cannot be divorced from the study of economics. Here, in this volume of essays based upon his Clarendon Lectures, he explores the relationship between the legal …
Economic Torts
Av Tony Weir
Inbunden, 1997
1785 kr
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This book is based closely on the lectures delivered by Tony Weir in 1996 as part of the Clarendon Law lectures series sponsored by Oxford University Press. It is an exciting and provocative book which contains a number of controversial propositions, defended with vigour by its author. The three …
The Practice of Principle
In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory
Inbunden, 2001
1683 kr
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Jules Coleman, one of the world's most influential philosophers of law here expounds his recent views on a range of important issues in legal theory. Coleman offers for the first time an explicit account of the pragmatist method that has long informed his work, and takes on the views of highly …
Change and Continuity
Statute, Equity, and Federalism
Inbunden, 1999
2530 kr
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This volume is based closely on the lectures delivered by The Hon. Justice W. M. C. Gummow at Oxford University in 1999 as part of the Clarendon law lectures series, sponsored by Oxford University Press. These lectures take up themes of continuity and change in the law, particularly as they appear …
Roman Law, Contemporary Law, European Law
The Civilian Tradition Today
Inbunden, 2001
1994 kr
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Legal history helps us to understand our modern law. It explains why the law has become what it is. It lays open the premises on which the modern law is based. It constitutes a rich source of experience which is as valuable for the development of modern legal doctrines as for law reform. It may …
Reciprocal Freedom
Private Law and Public Right
Inbunden, 2022
1515 kr
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Reciprocal Freedom elucidates the relationship between private law and the state, presenting reciprocal freedom as the normative idea underlying a legal order in which private law occupies a distinctive place. Weinrib develops a set of interconnected conceptions of private law, corrective justice, …
Active Liberty
Interpreting a Democratic Constitution
Inbunden, 2008
1312 kr
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What role should courts play in a modern democracy? How should fundamental provisions of a democratic constitution be interpreted? These questions have divided constitutional theorists and those responsible for interpreting and applying constitutional law including, notoriously, the current U.S. …
The Law's Two Bodies
Some Evidential Problems in English Legal History
Av John Baker
Inbunden, 2001
2092 kr
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The common law is almost universally regarded as a system of case-law, increasingly supplemented by legislation, but this is only partly true. There is an extensive body of lawyers' law which has a real existence outside the formal sources but is seldom acknowledged or discussed either by theorists …
Some Landmarks of Twentieth Century Contract Law
Inbunden, 2002
1677 kr
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This book contains a slightly expanded version of the Clarendon Lectures in Law given in Oxford in 2001. It deals with major contributions made by the English Courts in the Twentieth Century to three important areas of English contract law. The first is the variation of contracts by subsequent …
Intellectual Property
Omnipresent, Distracting, Irrelevant?
Inbunden, 2004
1565 kr
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Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are increasingly significant elements of economic policy: they are vital to developed countries in an age of global trade. Today's astounding new technologies, stemming from the digital and biotechological revolutions are creating new problems. William Cornish …
The Practice of Principle
In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory
Häftad, 2003
987 kr
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Jules Coleman, one of the world's most influential philosophers of law here expounds his recent views on a range of important issues in legal theory. Coleman offers for the first time an explicit account of the pragmatist method that has long informed his work, and takes on the views of highly …
State Liability
Tort Law and Beyond
Av Carol Harlow
Inbunden, 2004
1565 kr
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The lectures presented in this volume examine the fast-growing compensation culture and the consequential pressure on courts to widen the range of situations in which individuals can claim damages from the State. Within domestic legal systems, there has been a considerable extension of tortious …
Same Sex Relationships
From 'Odious Crime' to 'Gay Marriage'
Inbunden, 2006
1347 kr
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Based on the 2005 Oxford Clarendon Lectures in Law, this book deals with the remarkable change in society's attitude to homosexuality over the last half century. Until 1967 homosexual acts were punished by the criminal law and as recently as 1988 Parliament forbade teachers from suggesting that …
Women, Crime, and Character
From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Inbunden, 2008
992 kr
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In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a novel whose heroine was a sexually adventurous, socially marginal property offender. Only half a century later, this would have been next to unthinkable. Lacey explores the disappearance of Moll, and her supercession in the annals …
Mistake and Non-Disclosure of Fact
Models for English Contract Law
Inbunden, 2012
1397 kr
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In this book Hugh Beale examines the case for reforming the law on mistake and non-disclosure of fact to bring English law closer to the law in much of continental Europe. There, and in common law countries like the US, a party may avoid a contract for mistake of fact on a more liberal basis, and a …
