Systems of law: common law

The recognition and enforcement of legitimate expectations by courts has been a striking feature of English law since R v North and East Devon Health Authority; ex parte Coughlan [2001] 3 QB 213.

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

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

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

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

Nach etlichen Vorfällen in den letzten Jahrzehnten erbringt der Autor Urkundsbeweis für massive Auffälligkeiten und rechtswidrige Vorgehensweisen seitens Dritter in Strafverfahren, sowie daraus resultierender Untersuchungshaft.

This book contains a series of essays on conflict laws, including jurisdiction of the courts, choice of law, renvoi, property, recognition of family status, and recognition of foreign corporations.

The Common Law changed America forever.

THE TRIAL OF A LIFETIME.

A unique comparative analysis of Chinese contract law accessible to lawyers from civil, common, and mixed law jurisdictions.

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.

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.

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

This book, first published in 1973, provides a challenging interpretation of the emergence of the common law in Anglo-Norman England.

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

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

Explores the possibilities and limits of the international legal architecture and its expert communities in shaping the world of tomorrow.

Explores the possibilities and limits of the international legal architecture and its expert communities in shaping the world of tomorrow.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Clinical legal education has revolutionized legal education, from its deepest origins in the nineteenth century to its now-global reach.

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.

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

Explores how courts vary the depth of scrutiny in judicial review and the virtues of different approaches.

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.