Systems of law: common law

Winner of the DSBA Practical Law Book of the Year Award 2020This seventh edition provides comprehensive treatment of the key elements of the legal system in Ireland, including the roles and regulation of legal practitioners, the organisation of the courts and the judiciary, and an analysis of the main sources of Irish law and their application in practice.

Explores the English origins of the principles of judicial review in common law jurisdictions and autochthonous pressures for their adaptation.

Offers a distinctive account of the rule of law and legislative sovereignty within the work of Albert Venn Dicey.

A complete picture and thorough analysis of the international norms and bodies dealing with the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

The extraordinary recent increase in rates of cohabitation and non-marital birth presents a major challenge to traditional family law principles, and the legal rules governing cohabitation are thus among the most hotly contested areas of family law and policy today.

This book brings together past and present law commissioners, judges, practitioners, academics and law reformers to analyse the past, present and future of the Law Commissions in the United Kingdom and beyond.

An historical analysis of the development and reform of the law of prior obligations as expressed in preexisting duty rule and past consideration rule.

Featuring original research, this collection celebrates the remarkable career of former Supreme Court President, Brenda Hale.

Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "e;new beginning"e; in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law.

'A lifetime spend fighting the powers that be and turning personal pain into collective power.

Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal''s judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.

What happened to the culture of common law and English barristers in the long eighteenth century?

For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions.

This 2006 book explains the meaning, significance and practical effect of the concept of ''possession'' in contemporary land law.

Das Repetitorium vermittelt einen Überblick über das Schweizerische öffentliche Prozessrecht, das insbesondere in der BV, der EMRK, dem BGG, dem VGG sowie dem VwVG geregelt ist.

This book discusses the dominant corrective justice and distributive justice approaches to private law and identifies their strengths and weaknesses.

Explores financial aspects of constitutional government, focusing on central banking, sovereign borrowing, taxation and public expenditure.

Looking at key questions of how companies are held accountable under private law, this book presents a succinct and accessible framework for analysing and answering corporate attribution problems in private law.

Der Band, hervorgegangen aus einer Tagung an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, setzt sich in Fallstudien mit modernen Finanzierungsinstrumenten auseinander.

Winner of the DSBA Practical Law Book of the Year Award 2020This seventh edition provides comprehensive treatment of the key elements of the legal system in Ireland, including the roles and regulation of legal practitioners, the organisation of the courts and the judiciary, and an analysis of the main sources of Irish law and their application in practice.

The law of torts recognises many defences to liability.

In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law.

In this unique book Lord Woolf recounts his remarkable career and provides a personal and honest perspective on the most important developments in the common law over the last half century.

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format.

The book examines the protection of property rights in chattels through the law of torts, focusing on the four actions of conversion, detinue, trespass and negligence.

The House of Lords served as the highest court in the UK for over 130 years.

The principal objective of this book is simple: to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation, in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached and the law relating to them more easily understood.

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law''s varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

This book examines how the common law works through profiles of eight great cases.

The law of torts recognises many defences to liability.

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format.

New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

Featuring original research, this collection celebrates the remarkable career of former Supreme Court President, Brenda Hale.

Law can be looked at from both an internal legal perspective - reflected in the official discourse supporting legal decisions - and an external perspective - which is pursued by studies that look at the law from the outside as the subject of sociological, economic, or philosophical analysis.

An analysis of how economic concepts can be used to examine and criticise the law, first published in 2007.

In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law.

In this book leading scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia challenge established common law rules and suggest new approaches to both old and emerging problems in tort law.

Offers a distinctive account of the rule of law and legislative sovereignty within the work of Albert Venn Dicey.

Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "e;coverture,"e; William Blackstone famously declared that "e;by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law.

What does it mean when civil lawyers and common lawyers think differently?

In this unique book Lord Woolf recounts his remarkable career and provides a personal and honest perspective on the most important developments in the common law over the last half century.

Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "e;new beginning"e; in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law.

Through tort law development, this book adopts a new and innovative approach to writing legal history in Australia.

Lord Leonard Hoffmann remains one of the most important and influential English jurists.

It is said that a nuisance is an interference with the use and enjoyment of land.