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202 produkter
Principles of Property Law
Häftad, 2020
630 kr
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Principles of Property Law offers a critical and contextual analysis of fundamental property law concepts and principles, providing students with the necessary tools to enable them to make sense of English land law rules in the context of real world applications. This new book adopts a contextual …
Comparative Law
Häftad, 2022
603 kr
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Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars alike, covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. It critically debates both traditional and modern approaches to the discipline and uses examples from a range of jurisdictions to give …
The Reasonable Person
A Legal Biography
Häftad, 2025
428 kr
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Jeutner argues that the reasonable person is, at heart, an empathetic perspective-taking device, by tracing the standard of the reasonable person across time, legal fields and countries. Beginning with a review of imaginary legal figures in the legal systems of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the …
Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law
Text and Materials
Häftad, 2010
1048 kr
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Since the publication of the first edition, this textbook has offered one of the most distinctive and innovative approaches to the study of criminal law. Looking at both traditional and emerging areas, such as public order offences and corporate manslaughter, it offers a broad and thorough …
Law's Families
Häftad, 2003
638 kr
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This new title examines the diversity of perspectives and approaches in family law scholarship and drawing upon this work, provides an analysis of recent trends in family law from a socio-legal and feminist perspective. The book brings together the research findings of empirical studies on the …
Human Rights, Southern Voices
Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi
Inbunden, 2009
1513 kr
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A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely …
Laws and Societies in Global Contexts
Contemporary Approaches
Inbunden, 2013
1243 kr
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This text seeks to situate socio-legal studies in a global context. Law and society scholarship in the United States and elsewhere typically assumes one legal system and one society and explores the relationship between them. Such a narrow endeavor perpetuates a Western international relations …
Laws and Societies in Global Contexts
Contemporary Approaches
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
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This text seeks to situate socio-legal studies in a global context. Law and society scholarship in the United States and elsewhere typically assumes one legal system and one society and explores the relationship between them. Such a narrow endeavor perpetuates a Western international relations …
An Introduction to Law
Av Phil Harris
Häftad, 2015
673 kr
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Extensively updated throughout, this new edition introduces students to a wide range of modern legal issues. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book expertly addresses the ways in which the rules and structures of law respond to and influence changes in economic and political life. It …
Housing Law and Policy
Av David Cowan
Häftad, 2011
658 kr
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An innovative and timely guide to housing law that integrates the disciplines of law and public policy so that readers see how the subject fits together - both the letter of the law and the way it is practised. The innovative three-part structure covers all the topics of a typical Housing Law …
How to Do Things with Rules
Av William Twining, David Miers
Häftad, 2010
673 kr
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New to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint …
Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century
Text and Materials
Av Roger Brownsword, Morag Goodwin
Häftad, 2012
600 kr
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Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century provides a contextual account of the way in which law functions in a broader regulatory environment across different jurisdictions. It identifies and clearly structures the four key challenges that technology poses to regulatory efforts, …
How to Do Things with Rules
Av William Twining, David Miers
Inbunden, 2010
1528 kr
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New to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint …
Housing Law and Policy
Av David Cowan
Inbunden, 2011
1588 kr
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An innovative and timely guide to housing law that integrates the disciplines of law and public policy so that readers see how the subject fits together - both the letter of the law and the way it is practised. The innovative three-part structure covers all the topics of a typical Housing Law …
General Jurisprudence
Understanding Law from a Global Perspective
Inbunden, 2009
1198 kr
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This book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of academic law and legal theory. Its central thesis is that most processes of so-called 'globalisation' take place …
Crime, Reason and History
A Critical Introduction to Criminal Law
Av Alan Norrie
Inbunden, 2014
1503 kr
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Many books seek to explain the general principles of the criminal law. Crime, Reason and History stands out and alone as a book that critically and concisely analyses these principles and comes up with a different viewpoint: that the law is shaped by social history and therefore systematically …
Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law
Text and Materials
Inbunden, 2010
1903 kr
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Since the publication of the first edition, this textbook has offered one of the most distinctive and innovative approaches to the study of criminal law. Looking at both traditional and emerging areas, such as public order offences and corporate manslaughter, it offers a broad and thorough …
Law, Text, Terror
Av Ian Ward
Inbunden, 2009
973 kr
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The relationship between law and terrorism has re-emerged recently as a pressing issue in contemporary jurisprudence. Terrorism appears to take law to its limit, whilst the demands of counter-terrorism hold the cause of justice in contempt. At this point the case for engaging alternative …
Internet Law
Text and Materials
Av Chris Reed, William Twining m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
808 kr
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The common fallacy regarding cyberspace is that the Internet is a new jurisdiction, in which none of the existing rules and regulations apply. However, all the actors involved in an Internet transaction live in one or more existing jurisdictions, so rather than being unregulated, the Internet is …
Health Law and the European Union
Av Tamara K. Hervey, Jean V. McHale
Häftad, 2004
958 kr
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How does the law of the European Union affect health law and policy? At first sight, it seems limited. However, despite its restricted formal competence, the EU has recently become increasingly involved in the health field. Litigation based on EU law has resulted in a 'right to receive health care …
Globalisation and Legal Theory
Av William Twining, William Twining m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
853 kr
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This work brings together eight linked essays which make the case for a revival of general jurisprudence in response to the challenges of globalisation, explores how far the heritage of Anglo-American jurisprudence and comparative law is adequate to meeting the challenges, and puts forward an …
Cranston's Consumers and the Law
Häftad, 2000
688 kr
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The third edition of Cranston's Consumers and the Law brings the reader fully up to date with developments in consumer law and includes important new material on utilities and financial services regulation. An internet home page has also been established for readers of this book. The home page has …
Common Values and the Public-Private Divide
Av Dawn Oliver
Häftad, 1999
659 kr
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This text is a critical study of the public/private law divide in the common law tradition. Professor Oliver's starting point is that special substantive duties of legality, fairness and rationality are imposed by the common law on bodies discharging public functions, but not always on bodies …
Legal Ethics
Text and Materials
Häftad, 2001
732 kr
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This title examines all issues concerned with legal ethics. Part one looks at lawyers' ethics including professionalism and the English legal profession and professional regulation. Part two addresses specific topics in legal ethics including confidentiality, criminal defence and prosecution, …
Remedies in Contract and Tort
Av Donald Harris, David Campbell m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
943 kr
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Remedies is the subject of increasing academic interest. It is one of the key organising concepts of the obligations approach to the common law, the pre-eminent approach in law schools, now officially sanctioned by the Law Society. This second edition modernizes the first edition quite …
Rethinking Corporate Crime
Av James Gobert, Maurice Punch
Häftad, 2003
613 kr
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This unique work provides a detailed critique of the current criminal law system as it applies to corporate wrongdoing. It assesses the potential for the legal control of corporate criminality as informed by insights gleaned from an understanding of why such crimes occur. The authors also advance …
French Legal Cultures
Av John Bell
Häftad, 2001
923 kr
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This important new textbook compares civil and common law systems using the French legal system as its basis. Focusing on the four main branches of French Law: civil, criminal, administrative and constitutional law, the book examines the way that the judiciary, lawyers and academics operate within …
The Law of Contract
Av Hugh Collins
Häftad, 2003
748 kr
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Previous editions of this text have consistently been a favourite amongst common law lawyers. This new edition has been brought fully up-to-date and will be of interest to those studying 'advanced' obligations/common law modules. Undergraduates who study contract courses with a strong socio-legal …
Families and the European Union
Law, Politics and Pluralism
Häftad, 2006
512 kr
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In the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of family law in the European Union, McGlynn argues that a traditional concept of 'family' which has many adverse effects - on individuals, on families (in all their diverse forms), and indeed on the economic ambitions of the EU is forming the …
European Labour Law
Häftad, 2009
1231 kr
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European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a transnational labour law system that is distinct and genuinely European in character. Professor Brian Bercusson describes the evolution of this system, its national, …
