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| Author | : Robin Brunskill Cooke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 85 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Common law |
| ISBN | : 9780421598607 |
In this title, based on the 48th series of Hamlyn Lectures, Lord Cooke focuses on four great cases which were all major turning points in the development of common law. The cases cover the areas of public law, crime, tort and company law, three of which are core undergraduate subjects and the last a popular option as well as an important practitioner area. The analysis of each is that of a practising judge rather than an academic, interested primarily in how "leading judicial craftsmen have solved problems." In each instance Lord Cooke examines the effect of the case at the time, subsequent developments in case law and the attitude of the academic world to each. He introduces a Commonwealth dimension to each subject area, discussing relevant case law from jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
| Author | : Daniel H. Foote |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2011-10-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0295801352 |
This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (1963), edited by Arthur Taylor von Mehren, it features the work of thirty-five leading legal experts on most of the major fields of Japanese law, with special attention to the increasingly important areas of environmental law, health law, intellectual property, and insolvency. The contributors adopt a variety of theoretical approaches, including legal, economic, historical, and socio-legal. As Law and Japan: A Turning Point is the only volume to take inventory of the key areas of Japanese law and their development since the 1960s, it will be an important reference tool and starting point for research on the Japanese legal system. Topics addressed include the legal system (with chapters on legal history, the legal profession, the judiciary, the legislative and political process, and legal education); the individual and the state (with chapters on constitutional law, administrative law, criminal justice, environmental law, and health law); and the economy (with chapters on corporate law, contracts, labor and employment law, antimonopoly law, intellectual property, taxation, and insolvency). Japanese law is in the midst of a watershed period. This book captures the major trends by presenting views on important changes in the field and identifying catalysts for change in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Karl N. Llewellyn |
| Publisher | : Quid Pro Books |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 2016-05-21 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1610273001 |
| Author | : Ugo Mattei |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2018-10-26 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1786435187 |
Can private law assume an ecological meaning? Can property and contract defend nature? Is tort law an adequate tool for paying environmental damages to future generations? This book explores potential resolutions to these questions, analyzing the evolution of legal thinking in relation to the topics of legal personality, property, contract and tort. In this forward thinking book, Mattei and Quarta suggest a list of basic principles upon which a new, ecological legal system could be based. Taking private law to represent an ally in the defence of our future, they offer a clear characterization of the fundamental legal institutions of common law and civil law, considering the challenges of the Anthropogenic era, technological tools of the Internet era, and the global rise of the commons. Summarizing the fundamental institutions of private law: property rights, legal personality, contract, and tort, the authors reveal the limits of these legal institutions in relation to historical international evolution and their regulation in the contexts of catastrophic ecological issues and technological developments. Engaging and thoughtful, this book will be interesting reading for legal scholars and academics of private law and, in particular, those wishing to understand the role of law when facing technological and ecological challenges.
| Author | : Caroline Light |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2017-02-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807064661 |
A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for “good guys with guns” relies on the entrenched belief that certain “bad guys with guns” threaten us all. Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.
| Author | : Terry W. Bettis |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2012-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1468594796 |
Terry W. Bettis has published two books: "Guards at the Gate and co-authored The Spiral Notebook, transcribed from her diary, written by Billie K. Bettis. His passions to seek out the stories of history and current events is without question as to his motives. Ever wonder what is happening to our country? In Turning Points; Terry W. Bettis, takes you through the history of this country, looking at how through the years our Republic has had its ups and downs. As you read, you will learn about things that have given life to this country, as well as things that have drained the life from it. You will discover things that you thought were a blessing to this country, only to find that in fact, they are destroying our freedoms, and our Constitution, turning our country from one filled with God's blessing to one of slavery. Discover those things which are causing our Republic to fade completely away. The United States was founded on Christian principals, though far from perfect, it has been blessed by God, because we had put Him first. Being attacked on many fronts God is being pushed out the door of America. We are seeing the results. In Turning Points, you will learn how this is happening, plus the effect it is having on our country, churches, families and the future generations, yet to be born. It is a deep desire of Terry's to awaken the American people to what is happening to our beloved United States. You will learn and be blessed with this book as well as with, Terry's first book, Guards at the Gate, hopefully finding understand about what our country is experiencing and what we are leaving for our children and grandchildren. Gail Odegaard - Wyoming April 13, 2012 My friend Terry Bettis is a keen observer of life and life in motion. I have known him for decades and Terry ́s incisive mind is ever at work on society and its transmogrification's. He is a constitutional scholar and an exponent of personal freedom. I am in awe of the depth of Terry ́s knowledge of our Constitution and the freedoms it bestows. As a human being? Terry Bettis is hard to beat. He is revered by his friends and associates. He works hard and remains pleasant under even the most adverse circumstances. He and his wife, Billie, have been dear friends of ours for decades. If we needed someone to administer our estate, we would choose the Bettises. They are honest and intelligent. My wife and I regretted that Terry and Billie moved from Texas to New Mexico. We figured the move increased the median IQ of New Mexico and decreased that of Texas. Paul Freeman Marble Falls, Texas Terry is well qualified to write a book because of his fervor and passion for history the way it was written. He has demonstrated to me and others his great attention to detail in his research and fact finding in preparation for those books he has authored and co authored. He possesses the ability to build a story line and back it up with facts. His conclusions are based on historical facts. Mr Bettis is a true Patriot. His zeal and passions to preserve this great Republic through his teachings and lecture are well known in TEA party and conservative circles. Mr. Bettis is a resident of New Mexico with deep roots in Texas as well. His service to this country and to the public as a law enforcement officer qualify him to be a patriotic American.
| Author | : John Laws |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 107 |
| Release | : 2014-07-17 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 131606266X |
For the 2013 Hamlyn Lectures, Sir John Laws explored the constitutional balance between law and government in the United Kingdom. He argues that the unifying principle of the constitution is the common law and that its distinctive method has endowed the British State with profoundly beneficial effects, before examining two contemporary threats to the constitutional balance: extremism and the effect of Europe-made laws on the domestic English system.
| Author | : Frederick Arnold |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2023-10-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3385201462 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
| Author | : Dean R. Knight |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2018-04-19 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108119107 |
The mediation of the balance between vigilance and restraint is a fundamental feature of judicial review of administrative action in the Anglo-Commonwealth. This balance is realised through the modulation of the depth of scrutiny when reviewing the decisions of ministers, public bodies and officials. While variability is ubiquitous, it takes different shapes and forms. Dean R. Knight explores the main shapes and forms employed in judicial review in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand over the last fifty years. Four schemata are drawn from the case law and taken back to conceptual foundations, exposing their commonality and differences, and each approach is evaluated. This detailed methodology provides a sound basis for decisions and debates about how variability should be brought to individual cases and will be of great value to legal scholars, judges and practitioners interested in judicial review.
| Author | : Dr. Terry Mortenson |
| Publisher | : New Leaf Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2004-08-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1614582262 |
Many people in the Church today have the idea that “young-earth” creationism is a fairly recent invention, popularized by fundamentalist Christians in the mid-20th century. Is this view correct? In fact, scholar Terry Mortenson has done fascinating original research on this subject in England, and documents that several leading, pre-Darwin scholars and scientists, known as “scriptural geologists” did not believe in long ages for the earth. Mortenson sheds light on the following: Before Darwin, what did the Church believe about the age of the earth? Why did it believe this way? What was the controversy that rocked the Church in 19th-century England? Who were the “scriptural geologists”? What influences did the Church contend with even before Darwin’s book? What is the stance of the Church today? This book is a thoroughly researched work of reference for every library - certainly every creationist library. Terry Mortenson spent much time and work on this project in both the United States and Great Britain. The history of the Church and evolution is fascinating, and it is interesting to see not only the tremendous influence that evolution has had on the Church, but on society as well.
