Systems of law: common law

This book assembles the world''s most authoritative specialists for a comparative analysis of the enforcement of corporate and securities laws in thirteen national jurisdictions.

What is equity?

What is equity?

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

This book studies the US Supreme Court and its common law approach to judicial decision making from a national and transnational perspective.

This book showcases eight judges that exemplify judicial greatness and looks at what role they play in law and society.

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

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

Combines authoritative commentary and unique contextual analysis to explain the general principles of trusts and their practical operation.

Combines authoritative commentary and unique contextual analysis to explain the general principles of trusts and their practical operation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A timely examination of fundamental issues in intellectual property (IP) law, with international perspectives looking across regimes, jurisdictions, disciplines and professions.

A timely examination of fundamental issues in intellectual property (IP) law, with international perspectives looking across regimes, jurisdictions, disciplines and professions.

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

This book does what it ''says on the tin'' - stating the corpus of tort law as a body of principles.

This book does what it ''says on the tin'' - stating the corpus of tort law as a body of principles.

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

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

Hong Kong is one of the very few places in the world where the common law can be practiced in a language other than English.

Inquiries into how law shaped the effects of marriage for generations of women.

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.

In this book, an international team of scholars analyse the common law through three of its classic themes: rules, reasoning and constitutionalism.

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

This book challenges accounts about the development and operation of the common law.

This 2001 book was the second completed project of The Common Core of European Private Law launched at the University of Trento.

Loopy legislation, crazy crimes and punishments - based on the TV series Beyond Belief!

How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy-an "e;advowson"e;-was one of the most important rights in medieval England.

Should judges in United States courts be permitted to cite foreign laws in their rulings?

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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.

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

Anti-Bribery Laws in Common Law Jurisdictions provides a comprehensive analysis of the foreign bribery laws and of related laws and regulations in key common law jurisdictions.

In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law.

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.

This work explores the relationship between Bentham's utilitarian practical philosophy and his positivist jurisprudence.

This work explores the relationship between Bentham's utilitarian practical philosophy and his positivist jurisprudence.

The essays in this volume offer a reassessment of Jeremy Bentham's strikingly original legal philosophy.

The essays in this volume offer a reassessment of Jeremy Bentham's strikingly original legal philosophy.

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge.

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge.

Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life.

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

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

This edited collection is the culmination of a comparative project on 'Voices at Work' funded by the Leverhulme Trust 2010 - 2013.