Systems of law: common law

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

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.

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.

Sir Rabinder Singh has been one of the leading lights in the recent development of the common law, most notably in the field of human rights and the law of privacy.

In this classic study, Alan Brudner investigates the basic structure of the common law of transactions.

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

Law is supposed to encourage innovation, morality, and conformity with societal expectations, yet it may provides perverse incentives causing individuals, or even the State, to act in discordant, inefficient, and even immoral ways.

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.

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

Law is supposed to encourage innovation, morality, and conformity with societal expectations, yet it may provides perverse incentives causing individuals, or even the State, to act in discordant, inefficient, and even immoral ways.

In this collection, one of the key commentators on the modern law of tort presents 12 of his most important articles and book chapters.

Dos años después de su firma, el Tratado de Lisboa va a entrar finalmente en vigor el 1 de diciembre de 2009.

This collection examines critically, and with an eye to reform, conceptions and conditions of corporate blameworthiness in law.

Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort contains thirteen original essays on leading tort cases, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

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

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.

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

This is the first ever index of contributions to common law Festschriften and fills a serious bibliographic gap in the literature of the common law.

The Recollections of Sir James Bacon, a leading light in the evolution of English law during the 19th century, casts an unexpectedly amusing and high-spirited light on turbulent times.

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.

This volume arises from the inaugural Public Law Conference hosted in September 2014 by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, which brought together leading public lawyers from a number of common law jurisdictions.

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

The Assisted Decision-Making Handbook is a one-stop resource for practice and procedure in relation to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (as amended) ('ADMCA') in Ireland.

This book presents a clear, carefully-analysed picture of the operation of equity today, across the common law world.

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

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

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.

Sir Rabinder Singh has been one of the leading lights in the recent development of the common law, most notably in the field of human rights and the law of privacy.

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

In this classic study, Alan Brudner investigates the basic structure of the common law of transactions.

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

Inspired by the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this collection of essays from across the common law world is concerned with two separate but related themes.

The Assisted Decision-Making Handbook is a one-stop resource for practice and procedure in relation to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (as amended) ('ADMCA') in Ireland.

This collection examines critically, and with an eye to reform, conceptions and conditions of corporate blameworthiness in law.

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

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

Using archival resources, interviews with contemporaries, and legal sources, W.

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

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

This book considers the inherent complexities of private law; relevant to property, tort, contract, legal method and legal theory.

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.

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This is a landmark and ambitious research project looking at private law through the policy prism undertaken by a team of acknowledged experts in their fields.