Bøger i Law in Context serien

This fascinating intellectual memoir by a leading academic lawyer charts the development of his thought in the context of African, American, and British universities over sixty years. Twining's unique engagement with globalisation, jurisprudence, evidence, and legal education is addressed to legal theorists and academic lawyers generally.

What makes one crime story convincing and another implausible? Evidence law provides only a partial answer. This study explores the meaning of plausibility and the materials from which it is constituted in a particular historical and socio-cultural setting: proving sex offences in Mandate Palestine.

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law is the only book written in a Commonwealth jurisdiction that examines the accident compensation system in its broader social context. It provides the reader with a significantly richer understanding of the relevant law than they would obtain from books that concentrate on just the legal principles.

An important contribution to the field which explores both the legal and economic dimensions of EU economic governance in a clear and comprehensive way. It is an essential resource for law and economics students focusing on European Union economic governance.

This book analyses the legal construction of the national and the foreigner in ten countries across South America during a period of two hundred years. It will be of interest to migration and citizenship scholars interested in global, regional, comparative, historical and constitutional developments.

Argues that Australian discussions of law should be seen through the lens of British race patriotism. Only then can it be recognised that there were distinctively Australian contributions to developing the common law of tort in the first half of the twentieth century.

Engaging with topics as diverse as Islamic constitutionalism, Islamic finance, human rights and internet fatawa, this book explores what constitutes Islamic law in the contemporary world by considering theoretical perspectives of Islamic law and its application in everyday life. It is an invaluable resource for scholars, students and practitioners.

With her characteristic clarity and verve, Susan Haack brings her original and distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues. She includes analyses of a variety of cases and summaries of relevant scientific work, of the many roles of the scientific peer-review system, and of relevant legal developments.

Crime, Reason and History critically analyses the general principles of criminal law and offers a different viewpoint: that the law is systematically structured around conflicting elements. Updated to include two new chapters with an extended treatment of offence and defence, this new edition combines challenging and sophisticated analysis with accessibility.

Promotes a global socio-legal perspective that engages with multiple laws and societies and diverse socio-legal systems based on different historical and cultural traditions.

Provides an up-to-date account of English sentencing law.

A stimulating introduction to a rapidly developing area of law, which is becoming more important.

This book is for anyone interested in the history of marriage and cohabitation, whether historian, lawyer or general reader. It is written in an accessible style, while providing a radical reassessment of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010.

This fresh understanding of global law and contemporary gender relations asks 'whom do we care about?' not 'what rights do women have?'. Case studies feature African women producing fruit and flowers for UK export; Polish, Filipino and Moldovan migrant body workers providing care and sex; and British-Asian transnational marriages.

With reference to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the new international criminal tribunals, John Jackson and Sarah Summers chart the development of a genuinely cosmopolitan law of evidence in criminal cases across the common law and civil law traditions.

Freedom of Information (FOI) laws have generated calls for constitutional reform. Pressures for national security and secrecy must be balanced alongside demands for FOI. This detailed discussion of FOI laws and personal data laws examines the historical development of secrecy, national security and government, and their modern context.

Do inequalities in wealth threaten British democracy? Democracy Distorted demonstrates how wealth can generate political influence, through the funding of political parties, lobbying and media power, and provides a range of potential solutions to the problem of money in politics.

This text is a study of the public/private law divide in the common law tradition. Its starting point is that substantive duties of legality, fairness and rationality are imposed by the common law on bodies discharging public functions, but not always on bodies discharging 'private' functions.

This work compares civil and common law systems using the French legal system as its basis. Focusing on the four main branches of French law: civil, criminal, administrative and constitutional law, the book examines the way that the judiciary, lawyers and academics operate within them.

Written by one of the leading specialists in European law and legal theory, this third edition explains the history and institutional framework of European Union law. It includes commentaries on successive drafts of the Constitutional and Lisbon treaties and discusses recent developments such as the Turkish application.

This overview of the basic principles of labour law explores how international human rights law and economics have influenced labour law since the 1950s. The insights of rights theorists and economists are applied to a selection of topics in labour law to demonstrate the interplay between the two perspectives.

This title examines all the issues concerned with legal ethics. Part one looks at lawyers' ethics, including professionalism and the English legal profession. Part two addresses specific topics in legal ethics including confidentiality, criminal defence and prosecution.

Dora Kostakopoulou examines the prospects of the existing nationality model of citizenship and articulates an alternative institutional design. She outlines the organising principles, legal procedures and qualifying requirements of an anational model of citizenship, defends it against objections and considers the empirical conditions for its implementation.

Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions and scholarly arguments. This book examines scientific evidence in both civil and criminal contexts and explains how nonscientists who must make decisions about scientific knowledge can improve their decisions.

This book looks at privatized international infrastructure projects, law and human rights. It further distinguishes itself through its diverse and topical case studies, focusing on post-war Iraq, terrorism, indigenous rights, European Union expansion and urban poverty.

Combining materials from a wide variety of sources with Michael Zander's authoritative commentary, this book provides the tools with which an observer of the English legal system can discover how it functions, the problems it faces and the current reforms proposed.

Drawing upon legal history, legal theory, and legal sociology, this book presents an intellectual history of the US legal culture which elaborates on the various developments that have led to and structure the present worrisome legal-political situation.

Remedies is one of the key organizing concepts of the obligations approach to the common law. This second edition modernizes the former 1995 edition quite considerably. It determines the place of remedies in contract and tort within the debate about the reform of the common law obligation.

This text offers the definitive examination of criminal law in context. Exploring the philosophical, social and political environment in which it operates, it gives the student the most complete picture available. With relevant case law and material integrated throughout, it is simply essential reading for students of criminal law.

This book studies ideological divisions within Chinese legal academia and their relationship to arguments about the rule of law. The book describes argumentative strategies used by Chinese legal scholars to legitimize and subvert China's state-sanctioned ideology. It also examines Chinese efforts to invent new, alternative rule of law conceptions. In addition to this descriptive project, the book advances a more general argument about the rule of law phenomenon, insisting that many arguments about the rule of law are better understood in terms of their intended and actual effects rather than as analytic propositions or descriptive statements. To illustrate this argument, the book demonstrates that various paradoxical, contradictory and otherwise implausible arguments about the rule of law play an important role in Chinese debates about the rule of law. Paradoxical statements about the rule of law, in particular, can be useful for an ideological project.