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Litigation Services Handbook, Fourth Edition is referred to as the litigation bible.

This seminal book develops a new perspective on the debate concerning the Europeanisation of private law.

Der elfte Band der vom WEISSEN RING herausgegebenen Reihe "Viktimologie und Opferrechte" untersucht, welche Rechte auf Hilfe und Unterstützung Terroropfer haben.

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Complete with a foreword by the late Terry Bogg, this handy pocketbook provides accessible guidance to health and social care practitioners on the day-to-day aspects of using and applying the Mental Capacity Act.

This book presents comprehensive summaries and clearly focused analyses of virtually all U.

This book analyzes why the Rehnquist Court never fulfilled expectations for the reversal of liberal judicial decisions from the Warren and Burger Courts.

In 2006 Philadelphia, graduate student Jonathan Love sued the organization that publishes the Law School Admissions Test.

In the last several decades, there has been an explosion in the number of amici curiae, or friend of the Court, briefs filed with the U.

Widely regarded as America's most important Chief Justice, John Marshall influenced our constitutional, political, and economic development as much as any American.

There are more than 600 Federal district judges serving today, and they decide some 230,000 civil cases each year.

The American court system is making increasing use of sociologists as expert witnesses.

Perry illuminates the Supreme Court's unique advantages in sustaining a noble public image by its stewardship of the revered Constitution, its constant embrace of the rule of law, the justices' life tenure, its symbols of impartiality and integrity, and a resolute determination to keep its distance from the media.

This book gathers, synthesizes and analyzes case law in a variety of substantive contexts, including public employment, prison administration, and government benefits.

The chapters in this volume arise from a conference held at the University of Aberdeen concerning the law of causation in the UK, Commonwealth countries, France and the USA.

Winner of the second SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2010.

This book challenges certain differences between contract, tort and equity in relation to the measure (in a broad sense) of damages.

Winner of the second SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2010.

This book challenges certain differences between contract, tort and equity in relation to the measure (in a broad sense) of damages.

Is the American judiciary still the least dangerous branch, as Alexander Hamilton and legal scholar Alexander Bickel characterized it?

Shoplifiting is the single largest crime impacting U.

At the intersection of law and politics stands the U.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice.

This book tries to answer the question "e;What happens if an AI system makes a mistake while contracting?

Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics.

Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics.

This book focuses on an emerging problem in English contract law: what should be done when a party has been unjustly enriched as the result of a breach of contract but there is no measurable loss suffered by said party?

How do we bring the law into line with people’s psychological experience?

Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed?

Dieses Buch wendet sich an Rechtsreferendare, die sich effektiv auf die bevorstehende mündliche Examensprüfung im Zivilrecht vorbereiten wollen.

El Derecho internacional privado está más presente que nunca en las escrituras públicas, lo que obliga a los notarios y al resto de aplicadores del derecho a una formación continua en esta materia.

Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history.

The lawsuit is the cornerstone of the civil justice system in America, and an open court the foundation of American jurisprudence.

This is the definitive book on the legal and fiscal framework for civil society organizations (CSOs) in China from earliest times to the present day.

By any measure, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits.

When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits.

With increased international trade transactions and a corresponding increase in disputes arising from those transactions, the application of the doctrine of Forum Non Conveniens - the discretionary power of a court to decline jurisdiction based on the convenience of the parties and the interests of justice - has become extremely relevant when determining which country's court should preside over a controversy involving nationals of different countries.

In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States.

In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law.

In the myriad choices of interpretation judges face when confronted with rules and cases, legal realists are concerned with how these doctrinal materials carry over into judicial outcomes.

For many years family law was viewed as a study of the regulation of clearly defined relationships of husband and wife and parent and child.

For many years family law was viewed as a study of the regulation of clearly defined relationships of husband and wife and parent and child.

In the myriad choices of interpretation judges face when confronted with rules and cases, legal realists are concerned with how these doctrinal materials carry over into judicial outcomes.

By any measure, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.