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Book SynopsisThese essays explore the nature and limits of individual autonomy in law, policy and the work of regulatory agencies. Authors ask searching questions about the nature and scope of the regulation of 'private' lives, from intimacies, personal relationships and domestic lives to reproduction. They question the extent to which the law does, or should, protect individual autonomy. Recent rapid advances in the development of new technologies - particularly those concerned with human genetics and assisted reproduction - have generated new questions (practical, social, legal and ethical) about how far the state should intervene in individual decision making. Is there an inevitable tension between individual liberty and the common good? How might a workable balance between the public and the private be struck? How, indeed, should we think about 'autonomy'? The essays explore the arguments used to create and maintain the boundaries of autonomy - for example, the protection of the vulnerable, public goods of various kinds, and the maintenance of tradition and respect for cultural practices. Contributors address how those boundaries should be drawn and interventions justified. How are contemporary ethical debates about autonomy constructed, and what principles do they embody? What happens when those principles become manifest in law?Trade ReviewMy overall conclusions are that there are no weak contributions here, that I learnt a lot, had my mind changed occasionally [and] was led to thinking about some - important - matters for the first time Chris Barton Child and Family Law Quarterly Volume 21, No.4, 2009 ...the book as a whole is thought-provoking and challenging, with a mastery of detail and argument that is so often lacking in public debate today...the breadth of subjects discussed and the fact that many of them are familiar from popular discussions make it a fascinating read. It provides insights into both the reach and the limitations of the law in dealing with intimate life and raises important questions about the way in which autonomy has become subject to doubt, both in its necessity and its possibility. Jan Macvarish Spiked Review of Books July 2009 Many of the individual cases are thought-provoking and useful for scholars of family law, feminist legal theory, and autonomy. They raise many provocative questions about the relationship between autonomy and regulation by challenging the assumption that these two things are necessarily opposed to one another...The chapters are accessible and could be useful in an undergraduate or graduate course on gender and law or family law. Claire E. Rasmussen Law & Politics Book Review Vol.19, No.8 August 28, 2009 The essays analyse how much intimate relationships and reproductive decision-making should be affected by the law, regulation and social policy. The collection will therefore appeal to legal scholars, social scientists, biochemists, and policy makers alike. This collection of essays engagingly discusses the intersection of autonomy and regulation in private decision making... the essays are all of high standard and ... the book makes a good contribution to its field. Malcolm Smith Bionews April 2010Table of Contents1. Introduction: Autonomy and Private Life Emily Jackson and Shelley Day Sclater Part 1: Intimacies and Domestic Lives 2. Exploitation: The Role of Law in Regulating Prostitution Suzanne Jenkins 3. Feminist Anti-violence Discourse as Regulation Helen Reece 4. Relational Autonomy and Rape Jonathan Herring 5. Rules for Feeding Babies Ellie Lee and Jennie Bristow 6. Legal Representation and Parental Autonomy: The Work of the English Family Bar in Contact Cases Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar 7. Regulating Step-parenthood Jan Pryor 8. Internet Sex Offenders: Individual Autonomy, 'Folk Devils' and State Control Julia Davidson and Elena Martellozzo Part 2: Reproduction 9. Regulation of Reproductive Decision-making Theresa Glennon 10. Instruments for ART Regulation: What are the Most Appropriate Mechanisms for Achieving Smart Regulation? Martin H Johnson and Kerry Petersen 11. Which Children can we Choose? Boundaries of Reproductive Autonomy Martin Richards 12. Anonymity-or not-in the Donation of Gametes and Embryos Susan Golombok 13. Autonomy and the UK's Law on Abortion: Current Problems and Future Prospects Laura Riley and Ann Furedi

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Book SynopsisThe Care Standards Act 2000 came into force in April 2002 and provides for the administration of a variety of care institutions, including children''s homes, independent hospitals, nursing and residential care homes.This Act replaces the Registered Homes Act 1984 and those parts of the Childrens Act 1989 which are relevant to the care or the accommodation of children. It is a major piece of legislation which seeks to substantially reform the law relating to the inspection and regulation of homes. This book provides an in-depth guide to the new framework and offers advice on the practical and procedural effects. It also covers judicial review procedures and the potential human rights implications of the new Act.

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Book SynopsisThe issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation' in view of the massive prison population and the rapid increase in rates of incarceration, while in the UK it has become an increasingly important issue for similar reasons, and the subject of recent reports by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Probation, as well as from the Social Exclusion Unit of the Home Office. Yet this issue has not been well served by the criminological literature, and the new policies and programmes that have been set up to address the problem have not been well grounded in criminological thinking. This book seeks to address the important set of issues involved by bringing together the best of recent thinking and research into desistance from crime, drawing upon research in both the UK and the USA, and with a distinct focus on how this might impact upon the design and implementation of ex-offender reintegration policy.Trade Review'After Crime and Punishment is a must for those interested in the reintegration and resettlement of ex-prisoners and ex-offenders. It provides both an introductory text and an up-to-date and original exploration of the theoretical and practical study of desistance. From definitions to research, this text uses a dynamic and fresh style to report on an eclectic mix of related areas.' - Carly Angus, West Midlands Area Psychology OfficeTable of ContentsContents. Foreword Part I: Desistance Theory and Reintegration Practice 1. Ex-offender Reintegration: Theory and Practice 2. Reintegration and Restorative Justice: Towards a Theory and Practice of Informal Social Control and Support 3. Social Capital and Offender Reintegration: Making Probation Desistance Focused Part II: Methodological Considerations 4. Connecting Desistance and Recidivism: Measuring Changes in Criminality over the Lifespan 5. Somewhere Between Persistence and Desistence: The Intermittency of Criminal Careers Part III: Applied Research on Desistance 6. Jail or the Army: Does Military Service Facilitate Desistance from Crime? 7. To Reoffend or not to Reoffend? The Ambivalence of Convicted Property Offenders 8. Desistance from Crime: Is it Different for Women and Girls? 9. Beating the Perpetual Incarceration Machine: Overcoming Structural Impediments to Re-entry 10. With Eyes Wide Open: Formalizing Community and Social Control Intervention in Offender Reintegration Programmes 11. Less than the Average Citizen': Stigma, Role Transition and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service.It takes full account of the many changes that the Probation Service has undergone over the last few years, and is currently undergoing as probation becomes part of the broader National Offender Management Service. Contributors to the book are drawn from leading academics and practitioners in the field, drawing upon the best expertise available. Running through the book is a concern with a range of key current issues such as addressing the diversity of offenders and creating effective links with other criminal justice agencies, and it includes perspectives from both probation service staff and from offenders and victims. This book is an essential text for practitioners, trainees and students of probation and those studying it as part of a wider criminology or criminal justice course.Trade Review'The year 2007 marks the centenary of the statutory inauguration of the probation service in England and Wales, but it also sees the presentation to Parliament of a Bill that will − in the name of contestability − radically alter the organizational arrangements for delivering the traditional tasks of the service. In this turbulent context, the appearance of an authoritative and comprehensive Handbook of Probation, edited and written by acknowledged experts, is most timely and relevant.' − Sir Anthony Bottoms Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University'The distinguished editors have assembled a team of distinguished contributors to produce a substantial and authoritative collection. It will quickly become, and should remain, an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the present state of probation services in the United Kingdom, and in how they might develop.' − Professor David Smith, University of LancasterTable of ContentsPreface by (Chief Executive, NOMS) Introduction Part 1: The Story of Probation in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland Introduction 1. Humanising justice: the English Probation Service up to 1972 2. Towards a correctional service 3. Probation, governance and accountability 4. The Probation Service as Part of NOMS in England and Wales: fit for purpose? 5. Probation in Scotland: past, present and future 6. Probation, the state and community 'delivering probation services in Northern Ireland Part 2: Probation Services - Impact, Prospects and Potential in Everyday Practice Introduction 7. Services before trial and sentence:achievement, decline and potential 8. Assessment, supervision and intervention: fundamental practice in probation9. Sentencing, community penalties and the role of the Probation Service 10. Youth justice 11. Dealing with diversity in probation 12. Prolific/persistent offenders and desistance 13. High-risk offenders and public protection 14. The resettlement of ex-prisoners Part 3: What Works in Probation? Introduction 15. Effectiveness: who counts what? 16. Past, present and future sentences: what do we know about their effectiveness? 17. Probation values and human rights 18. Working for and with victims of crime 19. Partnerships in probation 20. Community penalties, sentencers, the media and public opinion

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Book SynopsisThis book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer. It incorporates the significant increase in knowledge about the work of prison officer since the first edition was published and provides a live account of prison work and ways of understanding the role of the prison officer in the late-modern context. Few detailed narratives exist of prison work and the sort of role the prison officer occupies; this book addresses the gap. Using a range of quantitative and qualitative data and drawing on available theoretical literature it explores the role of the prison officer in an ‘appreciative’ way, taking into account the little-discussed issues of power and discretion. It provides a single accessible guide to the world and work of the prison officer, looking in detail at the present role of the prison officer in Britain and demonstrating the centrality of staff-prisoner relationships to every operation carried out by officers. This book will be of relevance to anyone with an interest in the work of a prison officer; students and others looking for an introductory survey of the literature and essential reading for any established and aspiring officers.Trade Review'...this book deserves to be considered a timeless classic.''The work is particularly distinguished by its ability to bring the emotional texture of prison work into the light. Prison officers are shown to be thinking, feeling agents, who experience joy, sadness, dejection, satisfaction, fear and excitement. This rounded and human portrait has been too rarely part of academic or popular representations. The affective nature of the work is also illuminated, showing how relationships, sensitivity and human interaction are all central. It is this connection with people and the intimacy of their lived experience where this book comes most vibrantly to life.'-Jamie Bennett, Governor, HMP Grendon and Springhill, in the Prison Service Journal no 200 Mar 2012Comments on the first edition'The most important book for the prison service of the past 30 years.' – Phil Wheatley, Director General of the Prison Service'This outstanding book will be a constant source of reference.' – Martin Narey, Former Director General of the Prison ServiceTable of Contents1. Introduction: Prison Officers at Their Best 2. Who is the Prison Officer? 3. Understanding Prison Officers and Their Role 4. The Complexities of Role 5. Staff–Prisoner Relationships: The Heart of Prison Work 6. The Centrality of Discretion in the Work of Prison Officers 7. Prison Officer Culture and Unionisation 8. The Prison Officer in a Modern Bureaucracy 9. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisWe live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume I collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities, corporations and the larger society. It analyses the problems of lack of transparency and trust, and explores how even minor effects can be amplified and distorted through media and social responses, preventing effective management. The final section investigates the difficult ethical issues raised by the unequal distribution of risk depending on factors such as wealth, location and genetic inheritance - with examples from worker and public protection, facility-siting conflicts, transporting hazardous waste and widespread impacts such as climate change. Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.Table of ContentsVolume I * PART 1 - COMMUNICATING RISK AND INVOLVING PUBLICS * Six Propositions on Public Participation and Their Relevance for Risk Communication * Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks * Evaluating Risk Communication * Considerations and Principles for Risk Communication for Industrial Accidents * Risk and the Stakeholder Express * PART 2 THE SOCIAL AMPLIFICATION OF RISK * The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework * Hidden Hazards * Media Risk Signals and the Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, 1985-1989 * Stigma and the Social Amplification of Risk: Towards a Framework of Analysis * Risk, Trust and Democratic Theory * The Social Amplification of Risk: Assessing 15 Years of Research and Theory * PART 3 RISK AND ETHICS * Responding to the Double Standard of Worker/Public Protection * Developmental and Geographical Equity in Global Environmental Change: A Framework for Analysis * Redirecting the US High-Level Radioactive Waste Programme * Siting Hazardous Facilities: Searching for Effective Institutions and Processes * Climate Change, Vulnerability and Social Justice * Volume II * PART 1 RISK AND SOCIETY: FRAMING THE ISSUES * Acceptability of Human Risk * Societal Response to Hazards and Major Hazard Events: Comparing Natural and Technological Hazards* Large-scale Nuclear Risk Analysis: Its Impacts and Future * PART 2 CORPORATIONS AND RISK * Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research * Avoiding Future Bhopals * Emergency Planning for Industrial Crises: An Overview * Corporate Culture and Technology Transfer * Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal * PART 3 THE GLOBALIZATION OF RISK * Hazards in Developing Countries: Cause for Global Concern * Priorities in Profile: Managing Risks in Developing Countries * Risk and Criticality: Trajectories of Regional Environmental * (Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, Massachusetts, US * Border Crossings * Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change *

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Book SynopsisHow the City of London Works presents a simple, straightforward explanation of the City, how it works and how it is regulated. Diagrams, maps and illustrations have been included throughout the text to create a clear and readable picture of one of the world's great financial trading centres. The work remains up to date by including the launch of the Euro, the growth of foreign ownership and the further development of City activities in Canary Wharf.Table of ContentsWhat the City does; Banking; Insurance; The Stock Exchange; The Capital Market; The Gilt-edged Market; The Money Market; Foreign Exchange; The Euro and the City; Euro-currencies; The Gold Market; Commodity Markets; Derivatives, Futures, Options#; Baltic Exchange; What the City is; How the City is controlled; Where to learn more about the City; Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book provides non-native English speakers with the English language skills necessary to carry out their legal studies and professional activities effectively. It focuses specifically on the legal language required in two major areas of law central to international business law, drawing on examples from English, American and European legal materials. Fully class-tested, it employs an interactive methodology widely accepted in English language teaching.Table of ContentsIntroduction; English for Contracts; The Birth of a Contract; The Life of a Contract; The Death of a Contract; English for Company Law; The Birth of a Company; The Life of a Company; The Death of a Company; Description of Cases; Glossary of Legal Terms

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Book SynopsisLaw and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of English law, political science, and social history.Trade ReviewThe study of English legal history has been greatly enhanced and brought up-to-date with the publication of a new edition of this seminal text. -- Ciaran McCabe, University College Dublin * The Journal of Legal History *Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONE. INSTITUTIONS AND IDEAS Part 1: Industrialisation 1750–1875 Part 2: Passing Greatness 1875–1950 CHAPTER TWO. LAND Part 1: Agricultural Exploitation 1750–1850 Part 2: Urban Conditions and Land Values 1750–1850 CHAPTER THREE. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Part 1: Contract Part 2: Debt, Bankruptcy, Insolvency Part 3: The Limited Liability Company Part 4: Legal Control of Anti-Competitive Activity Part 5: Technological Advance and The Patent System CHAPTER FOUR. LABOUR RELATIONS Part 1: Service and Its Regulation 1760–1875 Part 2: Employment 1875–1950 CHAPTER FIVE. THE FAMILY Part 1: Private Family Law 1750–1850 Part 2: New Pressures on Family Law: 1850–1950 CHAPTER SIX. POVERTY AND EDUCATION Part 1: Destitution in Country and Town 1750–1890 Part 2: Schools: Learning and Mass Literacy to 1890 Part 3: Poor Relief and Its Alternatives Part 4: Education – The Modern Structure CHAPTER SEVEN. ACCIDENTS Part 1: Compensation by Civil Suits Part 2: Planning Against Accidents CHAPTER EIGHT. CRIME Part 1: The Era of The Bloody Code Part 2: Criminal Justice Transformed Part 3: Into The Twentieth Century

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Book SynopsisThe National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is the key pillar in the government's aim of Delivering sustainable development and getting Britain building'. Launched on 27 March 2012 amid much controversy, the NPPF seeks to set out the entirety of the government''s policy for town planning in a single document. The government claims it has three fundamental aims: To put unprecedented power in the hands of communities to shape the places in which they live; to better support growth to give the next generation the chance that our generation has had to have a decent home, and to allow the jobs to be created on which our prosperity depends and to ensure that the places we cherish our countryside, towns and cities are bequeathed to the next generation in a better condition than they are now.' The NPPF became a material planning consideration for all town planning decisions in England immediately upon its publication. This book provides clear practical guidance and commentary on the NPPF by reference to ministerial, planning inspectorate decisions and court judgments. Written by an expert team of specialist planning barristers from the leading planning chambers of Francis Taylor Building and led by Gregory Jones QC, it provides the essential single volume guide to signpost the reader through the new world of the NPPF.

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Book SynopsisLord Denning, an influential but controversial English judge, stated that 'Words are the lawyer's tools of trade'. This course book reflects that conviction as it focuses on words, the language of the law - legal terms, expressions, and grammar - introduced systematically with relevant aspects of the law, and examined in context through analytical reading activities based on original legal texts selected for their interest and importance in different branches of the common law system. This book explores constitutional law, criminal law, tort, and contract; yet includes international legal contexts, with a particular focus on human rights and European law. The presentation of legal concepts and terminology in context in each chapter is graded so that the course progresses, building on the vocabulary and law encountered in earlier chapters. Each chapter, organized thematically, includes a series of activities - tasks - to complete, yet the book does not presuppose previous knowledge of legal English or of the common law: full answer keys and reflective commentary on both legal and linguistic aspects are given and sections marked 'Advanced' offer especially challenging materials. Consolidation sections are designed to test students' global comprehension of the legal texts analysed, including precise usage of legal vocabulary in context, with solutions. Common Law Legal English and Grammar is addressed to the non-native speaker of English, and in particular, intermediate to advanced students who are studying law, or academics with a professional interest in Anglo-American law. Practising lawyers will also find that the book offers valuable analysis of the language of legal documents. Please note, this book is not available for purchase in Italy.Trade ReviewThe book provides the reader with a vast and thorough analysis of the legal language; however, we should not be discouraged by the 503 pages of the book, since the authors use plain English and clearly explain the features of the legal jargon. ... definitely the title to remember for those interested in not only learning legal English terminology but also understanding the usage of the legal terms of art in context. The authors teach the readers legal terminology but also equip them with legal knowledge. They use brilliant and memorable examples to illustrate the use of language, selecting them from the history of common law but also literature and news satisfying in this way the tastes of both lawyers are linguists. I will strongly recommend the book to my colleagues - legal English practitioners - as well as my most ambitious and linguistically advanced law students. -- Aleksandra Luczak, Kozminski University * www.luczak.edu.pl *Table of ContentsPart I English in Legal Contexts in Common Law and International Perspectives Chapter 1 Language and Law – English Legal Contexts, Texts and Terminology Chapter 2 Legal Grammar – Text Layout and Use of Formal Terminology Part II The Language of a Legal System and the British Constitution Chapter 3 Language and Law – Sources of Law and the Constitution of the UK Chapter 4 Legal Grammar – Punctuation Consolidation Part II – Language Focus Tasks Part III International Treaties, Human Rights and European Integration Chapter 5 Language and Law – Treaties and Human Rights in the European Dimension Chapter 6 Legal Grammar – Basic Sentence Structure Chapter 7 Language and Law – Common Law Perspectives of Crime and Punishment Chapter 8 Legal Grammar – Verb Forms Chapter 9 Language and Law – Judicial Precedent and the Law of Torts Chapter 10 Legal Grammar – Word Formation Chapter 11 Language and Law – Contract and Commercial Agreements Chapter 12 Legal Grammar – Adverbial Clauses and Nominal Structures

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Book SynopsisThis is the second edition of Professor Tushnet’s short critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States’ Constitution. It is organised around wo themes: first, the US Constitution is old, short, and difficult to amend. Second, the Constitution creates a structure of political opportunities that allows political actors, icluding political parties, to pursue the preferred policy goals even to the point of altering the very structure of politics. Deploying these themes to examine the structure f the national government, federalism, judicial review, and individual rights, the book provides basic information about, and deeper insights into, the way he US constitutional system has developed and what it means today.Trade Review...worthy of the highest recommendation for public and college library judicial studies shelves. * Midwest Book Review: Library Bookwatch *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE US CONSTITUTION From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights The Early National Period The Crisis over Slavery and the Civil War The Late Nineteenth Century and the Growth of the Modern State The New Deal Crisis and the New Constitutional Regime From the Reagan Revolution to the Present Conclusion Further Reading 2. THE CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH Congress: Its Basic Structure and Roles The American Party System Political Parties and the Written Constitution Conduct of Elections Legislative Districting and Gerrymandering Candidate Selection and Gerrymandering Campaign Financing Constitutional Politics within Congress Conclusion Further Reading 3. THE CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH The President as Party Leader The President’s Role in Legislation The Unitary Executive and the Modern Administrative State The Unitary Executive in Foreign Affairs Conclusion Further Reading 4. THE CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS OF THE JUDICIAL BRANCH Judicial Selection Judicial Review and Judicial Supremacy Political Constraints on the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts Doctrinal Constraints on the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts Standing Conclusion Further Reading 5. FEDERALISM AND THE REACH OF NATIONAL POWER State Governments and the US Constitution The Emergence of (Nearly) Plenary National Power The So-Called ‘Federalism Revolution’ of the 1990s and Beyond Federalism and the Spending Power Conclusion Further Reading 6. THE SUBSTANCE OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION The Starting Point Pragmatic and Realist Critiques The New Deal Reconstruction The Emergence of Modern Liberalism: Autonomy and Accommodation Lawyers and Rights Litigation: The Development of Support Structures Political Parties and Social Movements From Congress to the Courts: The Venues for Rights Protection The ‘Backlash’ Thesis Constitutional Rights in the Twenty-First Century Further Reading 7. THE PROCESSES OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE Formal Amendments Substance Constitutional Interpretation as a Mechanism of Constitutional Change Interpretive Methods: An Introduction Conclusion Constitutional Moments and Constitutional Change Constitutional Moments Concluding Thoughts Further Reading

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Book SynopsisIn 2007 the International Association of Constitutional Law established an Interest Group on 'The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges' to conduct a survey of the use of foreign precedents by Supreme and Constitutional Courts in deciding constitutional cases. Its purpose was to determine - through empirical analysis employing both quantitative and qualitative indicators - the extent to which foreign case law is cited. The survey aimed to test the reliability of studies describing and reporting instances of transjudicial communication between Courts. The research also provides useful insights into the extent to which a progressive constitutional convergence may be taking place between common law and civil law traditions. The present work includes studies by scholars from African, American, Asian, European, Latin American and Oceania countries, representing jurisdictions belonging to both common law and civil law traditions, and countries employing both centralised and decentralised systems of judicial review. The results, published here for the first time, give us the best evidence yet of the existence and limits of a transnational constitutional communication between courts. The collected data for each jurisdiction makes for engaging reading. It reveals details of the extent of visible (and sometimes implied) comparative activity that each of the courts displays in its jurisprudence ... we now have a clearer picture of how some of the most prominent constitutional courts deal (or desist from dealing) with comparable judgments in other countries. François Venter, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 12, no 1, January 2014 The volume ... represents a refreshing approach to complex questions raised in debates about constitutional borrowing, transjudicial communication, or the migration of constitutional ideas ... The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges will be essential reading for scholars seeking to refresh the debates about using foreign law. Hélène Tyrrell, Public Law, April 2014Trade ReviewThe collected data for each jurisdiction makes for engaging reading. It reveals details of the extent of visible (and sometimes implied) comparative activity that each of the courts displays in its jurisprudence. It also amounts to an assessment of the successes and shortcomings of the use of foreign precedent (in terms of the level of reciprocal influence of well-functioning constitutional systems) by judges that are more or less inhibited by their judicial culture to do so…The editors’ concluding chapter conveniently provides the reader with a comparative overview, both of the quantitative and qualitative results of the country reporters, and a tentative perspective on the future of comparative judicial practice in constitutional cases…The purpose and goals of the project are met by the book: we now have a clearer picture of how some of the most prominent constitutional courts deal (or desist from dealing) with comparable judgments in other countries. -- François Venter * International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 12, no 1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Methodology of the Research: How to Assess the Reality of Transjudicial Communication? Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau Part I 1. Reference to Foreign Precedents by the Australian High Court: A Matter of Method Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone 2. Canada: Protecting Rights in a 'Worldwide Rights Culture'. An Empirical Study of the Use of Foreign Precedents by the Supreme Court of Canada (1982–2010) Gianluca Gentili 3. India: A 'Critical' Use of Foreign Precedents in Constitutional Adjudication Valentina Rita Scotti 4. The Supreme Court of Ireland and the Use of Foreign Precedents: The Value of Constitutional History Cristina Fasone 5. Israel: Creating a Constitution—The Use of Foreign Precedents by the Supreme Court (1994–2010) Suzie Navot 6. Namibia: The Supreme Court as a Foreign Law Importer Irene Spigno 7. South Africa: Teaching an 'Old Dog' New Tricks? An Empirical Study of the Use of Foreign Precedents by the South African Constitutional Court (1995–2010) Christa Rautenbach Part II 8. Austria: Non-cosmopolitan, but Europe-friendly—The Constitutional Court's Comparative Approach Anna Gamper vi Contents 9. Lifting the Constitutional Curtain? The Use of Foreign Precedent by the German Federal Constitutional Court Stefan Martini 10. Hungary: Unsystematic and Incoherent Borrowing of Law. The Use of Foreign Judicial Precedents in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, 1999–2010 Zoltán Szente 11. A Gap between the Apparent and Hidden Attitudes of the Supreme Court of Japan towards Foreign Precedents Akiko Ejima 12. Mexico: Struggling for an Open View In Constitutional Adjudication Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor and Rubén Sánchez Gil 13. Romania: Analogical Reasoning as a Dialectical Instrument Elena Simina Tanasescu and Stefan Deaconu 14. Russia: Foreign Transplants in the Russian Constitution and Invisible Foreign Precedents in Decisions of the Russian Constitutional Court Sergey Belov 15. Judges as Discursive Agent: The Use of Foreign Precedents by the Constitutional Court of Taiwan Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh 16. United States of America: First Cautious Attempts of Judicial Use of Foreign Precedents in the Supreme Court's Jurisprudence Angioletta Sperti Conclusion. The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges: A Limited Practice, An Uncertain Future Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau

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Book SynopsisMuhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767-820) was one of Islam's foundational legal thinkers. Shafi'i considered law vital to social and cosmic order: the key obligation of each Muslim was to obey God, and it was through knowing and following the law that human beings fulfilled this duty. Drawing on the most recent scholarship on Shafi'i's work as well as her own investigations into his life and writings, Kecia Ali explores Shafi'i's innovative ideas about the nature of revelation and the necessary if subordinate role of human reason in extrapolating legal rules from revealed texts. This study sketches his life in his intellectual and social context, including his engagement with other early figures including Malik and Muhammad al-Shaybani. It explores the development and refinement of his legal method and substantive teachings as well as their transmission by his students. It also shows how he became the posthumous "patron saint" of a legal school, who remains today a figure of popular interest and veneration as well as a powerful symbol of orthodoxy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Arabian Years 2 From Student to Shaykh 3 Legal Theory I: The Risala, Sunna, and Hadith 4 Legal Theory II: Analogy, Ijtihad, and Consensus 5 The Ummand Substantive Law 6 Saint Shafi‘i Conclusion Further Reading Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other value-laden issues underlying public concern.Trade Review'An illuminating and important book [that] covers a great deal of ground.' Harvard Law Review. 'Slovic brings fresh insights on how others think of 'risk'. Risk Management Reports 'An invaluable collection of articles for those seeking an in-depth analysis of risk perceptions.' Food, Nutrition and Agriculture 'Everyone, whether a fan of the (extended) psychometric paradigm or not, will like to have in its own library this book as a handy reference.' Journal of Socio-Economics 'superb...I hope Paul Slovic is already working on a sequel that will fill in the few remaining blanks in his brilliant career.' Jason Zweig, Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, 2001. 'Superior' Torbjorn Malmfors, Amazon. 'Paul Slovic is a prolific and persuasive contributor to the literature on risk, with a well-defined perspective, which has informed an incremental and solid output of research and publication.' Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 'Essentially academic, but very relevant for anyone interested in taking risk seriously' Long Range PlanningTable of ContentsDecision Processes, Rationality and Adjustment to Natural Hazards * Cognitive Processes and Societal Risk Taking * Preference for Insuring Against Probable Small Losses: Insurance Implications * Accident Probabilities and Seat Belt Usage: A Psychological Perspective * How Safe Is Safe Enough? A Psychometric Study of Attitudes Toward Technological Risks and Benefits * Rating the Risks * Weighing the Risks: Which Risks are Acceptable? * Facts and Fears: Understanding Perceived Risk * Response Mode, Framing and Information-processing Effects in Risk Assessment * The Nature of Technological Hazard * Informing and Educating the Public about Risk * Perception of Risk from Automobile Safety Defects * Perception of Risk * The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework * The Perception and Management of Therapeutic Risk * Perception of Risk from Radiation * Perceived Risk, Trust and the Politics of Nuclear Waste * Intuitive Toxicology: Expert and Lay Judgments of Chemical Risks * Perceived Risk, Trust and Democracy * Adolescent Health-threatening and Health-enhancing Behaviors: A Study of Word Association and Imagery * Technological Stigma * Probability, Danger and Coercion: A Study of Risk Perception and Decision-making in Mental Health Law * Do Adolescent Smokers Know the Risks? * Insensitivity to the Value of a Human Life: A Study of Psychophysical Numbing * Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics and Science: Surveying the Risk-assessment Battlefield * The Affect Heuristic in Judgments of Risks and Benefits*

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Book SynopsisThe Community Trade Mark Regulation came into force in March 1994, and the first CTM applcations will be accepted from 1st January 1996. By filing one application, a trade mark owner may obtain a single registration effective throughout the whole of the EC, and for the first time it will be possible to gain truly international protection for intellectual property rights. Trade mark practitioners world-wide will require in-depth knowledge of the system in order to advise their clients how best to benefit from the Community Trade Mark. The Madrid Protocol comes into effect on 1st April 1996, providing a procedural shortcut to the multiple filing of national trade mark applications. The Protocol will eventually dovetail into the CTM system. This guide aims to help the practitioner to evaluate whether the CTM or the Madrid Protocol or both will best meet the commercial client''s aims.

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Book SynopsisAnyone practising in the criminal courts needs to have a sound grasp of both evidence and procedure. This text seeks to provide the criminal lawyer with access to the key points of these inter-related subjects. It is divided into two parts. Part A deals with evidence, while Part B covers procedure. It contains the text of the most important statutory provisions, together with a commentary. This second edition features new chapters on disclosure (covering the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996), Committal for Trial and the European Context. The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 is examined and the crucial portions of the statute are provided. The Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, the provisions on surveillance in the Police Act 1997, the procedural aspects of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the developments based on the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 are all covered. The most important provisions of the Codes of Practice under PACE, the Code of Practice on Disclosure, and the European Convention on Human Rights are reproduced in Appendix form.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first extensive treatment of deathbed gifts in English law to be published. Such gifts are sometimes made by donors who, when facing impending death, transfer their property conditionally on death. It is a fascinating area of the law containing rules which have their origins in Roman Law, and which have continued to be been developed in modern law combining aspects of the laws of succession, trusts and personal property. Deathbed Gifts provides a detailed exposition and analysis of the current rules. It also traces the origins of the law and examines its continued development by the courts. The subject is represented by a rich case law including recent Court of Appeal decisions; a comprehensive summary of the case law is included.

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Book SynopsisOffering a comment on the justification for sentences, this work refutes jurisprudential attacks on the propriety of mercy, and discusses the shortcomings of the Court of Appeal''s approaches to consistency and other principles of sentencing. The appendices list "guideline cases" and definitions of "seriousness" for the purpose of different statutes.

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Book SynopsisThis book is part of the Cavendish Essential series. The books in the series are designed to provide useful revision aids for the hard-pressed student.They are not,of course, intended to be substitutes for more detailed treatises. Other textbooks in the Cavendish portfolio must supply these gaps. The Cavendish Essential Series is now in its second edition and is a well established favourite among students. The team of authors bring a wealth of lecturing and examining experience to the task in hand. Many students who have studied or are studying law find the experience 'painful'. One of the main complaints is that there is so much to learn and so many cases to remember.This book is written based on both A Level and GCSE Law Syllabus. For students who progress to higher level, this book can also be used as a basis for them to develop their own personal law revision notes.Table of ContentsNature of Law; Modern Sources of English Law; Criminal Law; Contract Law; Tort Law; Family Law; Law of Succession; Freedom under the Law; Legal Process and Institutions.

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Book SynopsisPrevious collections of essays on equity and trusts law have focused on doctrinal issues, only occasionally giving a policy gloss or suggestion of social context and impact. Although a critical approach can be glimpsed in journal articles and student texts, this collection of essays draws together both feminist and critical material.It is unique in being written by feminists, in dealing with equity and trusts as a whole and in being written in the critical tradition.Table of Contents1. The Fiction of Equity 2. Equity's Darling? 3. The WAQF in Trust 4. Understanding Equity's Secret Understandings 5. Weaving Along the Borders: Public and Private, Women and Banks 6. The Revival of Equitable Doctrine in Scots Law-A Space for Gender Concerns? 7. Property Rights for Home-Sharers: Equity Versus A Legislative Framework? 8. Governing From a Distance: The Significance of the Capital Income Distinction in Trusts 9. Trusting in the Prudent Woman of Business: Risk, Reconciliation and the Trustees' Standard of Care on Investment 10. Equitable Remedies: Cypher Wives, Weak Women and 'Equity's Special Tenderness' 11. Equitable Principles of Confidentiality and Whistleblowing 12. Our Property in Trust: Things to Make and Do

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Book SynopsisAn entertaining diversion for lawyers and others, Twenty Famous Lawyers focuses on household names and high profile cases. Contains valuable insights into legal ways and means and looks at the challenges of advocacy, persuasion and the finest traditions of the law. With a backdrop of famous cases and personalities, Twenty Famous Lawyers is a kaleidoscope of information about the world of lawyers. To the fore are 20 individuals selected by John Hostettler as representative of those who have left their mark on legal developments. Ranging across countries, cultures and time these are people who helped raise (or in some cases lower) the law's values and standards. From high politics to human rights to legal loopholes, manipulation, pitfalls and downright trickery, the book is also a celebration of the contribution made by lawyers to society and democracy - often by those pushing boundaries or challenging injustice or convention. The book's 'supporting cast' includes such diverse personalities as Julius Caesar, Oscar Wilde, Gilbert and Sullivan, the Prince Regent and Lily Langtry. It covers trials for treason, murder, terrorism and even regicide, visiting courts from the Old Bailey to the Supreme Court of the USA to those of Ancient Rome. With chapters on: Clarence Darrow, Edward Carson, William Howe and Abraham Hummel, Matthew Hale, Marcus Cicero, Henry Brougham, John Adams, Helena Kennedy, Norman Birkett, Jeremy Bentham, Geoffrey Robertson, Abraham Lincoln, Edward Coke, Thomas Jefferson, Shami Chakrabati, James Fitzjames Stephen, Edward Marshall Hall, Gareth Peirce, Lord Denning and Cesare Beccaria. From the Text [Henry Brougham] first made a name...as a lawyer by his defence of the brothers John Hunt and John Leigh Hunt in two prosecutions for seditious libel in their newspaper, The Examiner. The first trial, on 22 January 1811, arose from an article entitled "One Thousand Lashes!!" which attacked flogging in the army. As William Cobbett had only recently been fined and sent to prison for two years for criticising army flogging in his Political Register the verdict against Hunt could hardly be in doubt. Nevertheless, Brougham secured a brilliant acquittal [after a speech] which was remarkable for "great ability, eloquence and manliness."Table of ContentsAbout the Author. Preface. 1. Clarence Darrow: Freedom and Humanity. 2. Edward Carson: Strong Man of Politics and the Law. 3. William Howe and Abraham Hummel: Tricksters and Criminals. 4. Matthew Hale: Judge, Jurist, Writer, Reformer. 5. Marcus Tullius Cicero: Birth of the Rule of Law. 6. Henry Brougham: Glitz of Cannes to the Calm of the Woolsack. 7. John Adams: Constitutional Draftsman and President. 8. Helena Kennedy: Parliament, Court and College. 9. Norman Birkett: One of the 'Great Advocates'. 10. Jeremy Bentham: Utility, Punishment and Law. 11. Geoffrey Robertson: Rights, Romans and Regicides. 12. Abraham Lincoln: Law, Politics and Civil War. 13. Edward Coke: Champion of the Common Law. 14. Thomas Jefferson: Visionary and Founding Father. 15. Shami Chakrabati: Equality, Respect and Human Rights. 16. James Fitzjames Stephen: Codes and Colonies. 17. Edward Marshall Hall: Forensic Skills and Spell-binding Eloquence. 18. Gareth Peirce: Public Works, Private Life. 19. Alfred Denning: People's Judge and an Unlikely Celebrity. 20. Cesare Beccaria: Crusader Against Torture. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects and connection to social relations of power.It is organized around three themes: the ways in which concepts of property are symbolically and practically connected to relations of power the 'objects' of property in changing contexts of materialism challenges to the Western idea of property posed by colonial and post-colonial contexts, such as the disempowerment through property of whole cultures, the justifications for colonial expansion and bio piracy. Dealing with the symbolism of property, its history, traditional philosophical accounts and cultural difference, Margaret Davis has written an invaluable volume for all law students interested in property law. Trade Review"Property is a core concept of Western political and legal thought. Exactly what property is, how property rights can be defined and justified, and how its meaning has changed over time is a matter of significant debate. Davies (Flinders Univ., Australia) sketches out a compact, sophisticated, and often challenging discussion of property, seeking to engage the concept from multiple perspectives...the author does an excellent job addressing the complexity and multiple meanings associated with property. The feminist-property connection is especially interesting. Good for collections on law, feminism, and political theory." -- D. Schultz, CHOICE, May 2008"... eminently readable, lucid and thought-provoking. ...anyone with even the most basic acquaintance with and interest in property theory will find it thoroughly rewarding." - Alison Clarke, King's Law Journal, Vol. 19 No. 3 (2008)Table of ContentsIntroduction. Themes. Histories. Theories. Cultures. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe buy-out market, whereby pension liabilities are transferred to a third-party specialist, has changed dramatically in recent years. Many new market entrants have sought to provide opportunities to employers to reduce or eliminate their exposure to defined benefit pension scheme liabilities in a cost-effective fashion. Increases in anticipated longevity, combined with historically low interest rates and poor equity returns, have resulted in substantially increased costs for employers. Together with the credit crunch, the collapse of high-profile banking institutions and a deteriorating economy, they provide yet further reasons for employers and trustees to seek to protect defined benefit liabilities. Buy-outs (and their alternative, buy-ins) have represented an attractive opportunity for trustees and employers alike in seeking to eliminate such exposure. The number of new market entrants and the new ‘non-insured’ buy-out model have generated considerable competition and a significant reduction in buy-out and buy-in cost. Featuring contributions by leading experts in the field, including the Pension Corporation, Lucida, Hewitt Associates and Pitmans Trustees Limited, this timely title covers topics such as the attractions of the current buy-out market, the non-insured buy-out option, the Financial Services Authority regulated market and the elimination of pension scheme liabilities, as well as an overview of the buy-out market in selected countries. This book is aimed at a broad cross-section of the pension market and is intended to be of practical use to trustees, employers, advisers, administrators and other pension stakeholders in providing a comprehensive guide to how best to tackle the thorny issue of eliminating defined benefit scheme liabilities.Trade ReviewThe book fills a considerable void, as information about emerging buy-out markets is not readily available. It would be a valued reference and of interest to the listed target audience. -- Daniel Alai ANIELWith the decline of final salary schemes being one of the central narratives of 2009, this collection of essays on the buy-out and buy-in market is nothing if not timely. -- Owen Walker, Deputy editorReview for Pension Scheme Deficits: This practical guide, intended for trustees, employers, advisers, administrators and other pension stakeholders, is likely to be of interest for some time to come. -- Pensions Age, November 2009This timely book with the subtitle 'The elimination of defined benefit pension scheme liabilities' will be of practical use to trustees and their advisers in this endeavour. -- Pensions WorldFor any practitioner, the book provides a useful summary of the issues, and a wider view from overseas of concerns that obviously afflict employers around the globe. -- Robin EllisonReview for Pension Scheme Deficits: "Despite the best efforts of investment managers, and the reduction in the numbers of defined benefit pension schemes, deficits are going to be with us yet awhile, which means this book seems destined to have a long and distinguished future in print." -- Robin EllisonReview for Pension Scheme Deficits: "The contents page in Pension Scheme Deficits reads like a who's who in the pension industry." -- Ruth EmeryTable of ContentsPreface Background and evolution of today’s buyout market Jonathan Bloomer Lucida Attractions of the current buyout market Matthew Preston Herbert Smith LLP Other methods of eliminating defined benefit pension scheme liability Penny Pilzer Lovells LLP The FSA regulated market Mark Wood Paternoster UK Limited The occupational pensions regulated market/the non-insured buy-out option Edmund Truell Pension Corporation LLP Trustee perspective The trustee’s perspective David Archer Rosamund Lee Pitmans Trustees Limited The employer’s perspective Markus Fink Ashurst LLP An international approach Germany Tobias Neufeld Ashurst Netherlands Bas Cammelbeeck NautaDutilh Norway Peter Hammerich Klaus Henrik Wiese Hansen Bugge, Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen South Africa Hunter Thyne Hunter Employee Benefits Law (Pte) Ltd Spain Juan Alonso Paz de la Iglesia Francisco de Leon Ashurst Sweden Jenny Jilmstad Jonas Wiberg Ashurst United States Jake Downing Robert Flanagan Mary Samsa Seyfarth Shaw LLP The end game – is buyout the end of the line for defined benefit pension schemes? Martin Hunter Punter Southall Transaction Services The future of the buyout market Kevin Wesbroom Hewitt Associates LLC

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the spectrum of risks posed to the development, financing, construction and operation of trans-boundary energy infrastructure and the tools that may be deployed to manage these risks. The book begins by examining trends in trans-boundary energy infrastructure and the nature of the risks – non-technical, technical and financing – which infrastructure development projects and existing operations must anticipate and manage. Individual categories of intergovernmental and host government risk will be viewed from the perspectives of leading international experts. These risks, and the tools applied to manage them, will also be viewed from the different viewpoints of the state and private sector counterparties, lenders, affected communities and other interested third parties, such as indigenous communities, individual landowners and the non-governmental organisations that typically represent their interests. Against a backdrop of global energy supply/demand dislocations, fragility in the global financial markets, increasing awareness of the impact of projects on individuals, communities and the environment (especially in the wake of the recent BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico), and medium to longer-term concerns about security of supply and climate change, it is increasingly clear that the bandwidth of risks which infrastructure developers, operators and their advisers now need to be aware of is becoming much broader.Trade ReviewOverall this book is an excellent exposition of the risks surrounding major energy infrastructure projects, and would be a useful addition to the reading list of anyone who is involved in the design, construction, operation or financing of these projects. -- Craig Jones * Sullivan and Cromwell, Global Energy Review *Table of ContentsExecutive summary 5 Introduction 13 Thomas J Dimitroff Infrastructure Development Partnership LLP Part 1: Macro-considerations Macro-risks after the panic of 2008 17 Kevin Gardiner Barclays Wealth Political risk in large projects 33 Arve Thorvik Thorvik International Consulting Part 2: Cross-border dimensions Multilateral and bilateral investment agreements 51 Tom Cummins Ronnie King Ashurst LLP Intergovernmental agreements 73 Katie Baehl R Coleson Bruce George F Goolsby Baker Botts LLP Trans-boundary energy projects and maritime transport risk 91 Glen Plant Legal consultant Cross-border regulatory risk: the EU exemption regime 129 Leigh Hancher Allen & Overy LLP Part 3: Host state perspectives Host government agreements: the investor perspective 145 Charles Lindsay Allen & Overy LLP Tax risks 159 Stuart F Schaffer Baker Botts LLP A host state perspective on risk 173 Judith H Kim Geoffrey Picton-Turbervill Ashurst LLP Part 4: The investor and other stakeholder perspectives Joint venture risks and responsibilities 183 Thomas J Dimitroff Infrastructure Development Partnership LLP Project finance and risk mitigation 201 William E Browning Infrastructure Development Partnership LLP Alexandre Chavarot William J Clinton Foundation Technical and operational risk 221 Deborah L Grubbe Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC Holistic project management and risk 229 William E Browning Yashar Latifov Infrastructure Development Partnership LLP A strategic approach to environmental and social impact assessments 239 David Blatchford Martin Lednor Infrastructure Development Partnership LLP Security risk management 257 Anthony FS Ling LPD Strategic Risk Ltd Risk, project-affected communities and their land 273 Henry Thompson Oxania Ltd About the authors 295

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Book SynopsisOver the past decade, upstream activities have increased significantly in Brazil. However, companies that succeed in finding oil or gas are faced with a myriad of questions to consider. Can they export their hydrocarbons? Do they have the necessary infrastructure in place? Do they need to build this? If so, how? Can they refine their products in Brazil? What is the market for those products? What regulation is involved? How can they reach the final consumer in the petrol station? This practical new handbook aims to provide the answers to each of these questions. A companion to Brazilian Upstream Oil and Gas, the book features chapters by highly respected Brazilian and international professionals, including experts from Baker Botts, Pinheiro Neto, Vieira Rezende, Veirano Advogados and Machado Meyer. Their insights offer reliable guidance for international investors - and the lawyers assisting them - when considering investment in Brazil, particularly for those who are unfamiliar with the country’s legal system. In combination with Brazilian Upstream Oil and Gas, this book will provide essential knowledge for any reader in understanding petroleum law and regulation in Brazil, from the field to the petrol station.Table of ContentsPreface 5 Andrew B Derman Thompson & Knight LLP Introduction 7 Dr Eduardo G Pereira STR Holding General principles of Brazilian law 9 Décio Pio Borges de Castro Marcelo Viveiros de Moura Pinheiro Neto Key stakeholders 27 Luis Pacheco Veirano Advogados Regulatory framework 41 Felipe Rodrigues Caldas Feres Giovani Ribeiro Loss Nilton Gomes de Mattos Neto Larissa de Faria Toledo Mattos Filho International gas and LNG sale and purchase contracts 63 Hannah Longley Baker Botts Pipeline contracts for gas and liquids 83 Igor de Souza Tostes Luis Antonio Menezes da Silva Alexandre Montoni Eduardo Dodsworth Tranjan Villemor Amaral Advogados Infrastructure 107 Alexandre Carlos Camacho Rodrigues National Agency of Petroleum Carlos Maurício Maia Ribeiro Vieira Rezende Advogados Distribution network 119 Felipe Rodrigues Caldas Feres Giovani Ribeiro Loss Nilton Gomes de Mattos Neto Larissa de Faria Toledo Mattos Filho Gas stations 135 Edmar Luiz Fagundes de Almeida Marcelo Colomer Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Environment 157 Luis Pacheco Veirano Advogados Taxation 177 Camila Galvão Anderi Silva Diogo Martins Teixeira Fernando Tonanni Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados Joint ventures 193 Jose Virgilio Enei Daniel Szfyman Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados Law and jurisdiction 215 Marcelo Viveiros de Moura Luis Cláudio Furtado Faria Pinheiro Neto About the authors 233

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Book SynopsisPatent Transactions in the Life Sciences is designed to provide guidance on the structure and detail of those agreements in the life sciences sector that are based on its most import assets - patents and know-how. As a companion to Intellectual Property in the Life Sciences, it is intended to cover the practical what, where, why and when of patent transactions in this sector, under the leading legal regimes. The book explains the rights that underpin life sciences transactions and describes the architecture, features and purpose of those transactions. It covers issues from the basics of a licence and assignment to complex agreements. The book also explores the types of deal that commonly feature in the industry at the corporate level and how patents fit in. Associated issues of licence disputes, competition rules, securitisation, insolvency and taxation are also examined. This new guide will be a valuable resource for lawyers, in-house counsel and other professionals advising on transactions in the life sciences industry, particularly where they have global reach.Table of ContentsIntroduction 5 Paul England Taylor Wessing Looking ahead to 13 the unitary patent Paul England Taylor Wessing Belgium 19 Philippe de Jong Christophe Ronse ALTIUS Canada 35 Rory Cattanach Kevin Fritz Wildeboer Dellelce LLP Noel Courage Bereskin & Parr LLP China and Hong Kong 51 Joanna Chan Lewis Ho Monique Lee Dechert LLP Denmark 85 Klaus Ewald Madsen Christian Bennet Rosenbak Bech-Bruun France 99 Laetitia Benard Allen & Overy LLP Germany 121 Nicole Battistini-Kohler Manja Epping Michael Gaul Christof Hohne Matthias Hulsewig Anja Lunze Steffen Wirsing Taylor Wessing India 153 Disket Angmo Fiona Desouza Jose Madan Khaitan & Co Israel 169 Uri Fruchtman Liad Whatstein Dr Shlomo Cohen & Co Italy 191 Luca Trevisan Trevisan & Cuonzo Japan 209 Frederick Ch'en Eiichiro Kubota Hogan Lovells Netherlands 237 Carreen Shannon Deterink South Korea 255 Mikyung Choe H Joon Chung Yoon Young Huh Ji Eun Kim Jongguk Pak Kim & Chang Sweden 271 Jennie Klingberg Odd Swarting Setterwalls Switzerland 285 David Broenimann Christoph Heiz Simon Holzer Kilian Scharli Andrea Sieber Meyerlustenberger Lachenal United Kingdom 303 Malcolm Bates Colin McCall Louisa Penny James Stewart Tim Worden Taylor Wessing LLP United States 343 Chuck Larsen Anita Varma Ropes & Gray LLP About the authors 373

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Book SynopsisTraditional forms of mentoring and coaching have always been at the heart of the legal profession. It is not so long ago that in order to become a lawyer, one did not attend law school, but instead had to be mentored by a senior member of the profession for a fixed number of years. The requirement to attend law school is now universal, but the need for mentoring and coaching in the legal profession has not disappeared; it is developing at a high speed and for good reasons. Misconceptions about mentoring and coaching in law firms often prevent productive relationships from forming. These misconceptions include beliefs that mentoring is beneficial to mentees but does not add value to the mentors; an assumption that it is human resources’ responsibility to develop people; and queries about why today’s lawyers need coaching, given that they receive more formal training than previous generations. This practical new handbook, coordinated by Rebecca Normand-Hochman on behalf of the International Bar Association, explores and challenges some of these assumptions. Featuring chapters by well-respected experts in the field of mentoring and coaching, chapters cover topics including leadership coaching for law firm leaders; mentoring and coaching for lawyers at various stages of their careers; and mentoring and coaching for successful onboarding of lawyers, among other topics. The various chapters provide guidance and insight to law firm leaders and talent management managers for them to discover how they can turn mentoring and coaching into a source of competitive advantage by improving client service, attracting and retaining the best talent, and enhancing the utilisation of human capital. The book will also be of interest to lawyers seeking to discover how they can generate productive relationships to acquire the intangible skills and knowledge required to excel in today’s practice of law.Trade ReviewNo matter how successful, the often perplexed lawyer, at whatever stage of his or her career, requires some encouragement and guidance along the way, hence the increasingly urgent need for mentoring and coaching examined in this book. -- Phillip Taylor MBE * Richmond Green Chambers *'Mentoring and Coaching for Lawyers' not only answers the many questions I had, but does so in a structured, substantial and yet an imaginative and creative way. Its structure means that it is easy to access and would make a helpful reference book, for all those involved in law firm management. -- Pippa Blakemore * The PEP Partnership LLP *Review for 'Managing Talent for Success': This is a concentrated burst of thoughtful analysis and practical pointers. Self-contained chapters draw on the insights and experience of a credible cross-section of specialists in talent development. -- Stephanie Abbott * Mayer Brown *Table of ContentsMentoring, coaching and the practice of law 5 Rebecca Normand-Hochman Mentoring Collegium Limited, Institute of Mentoring Mentoring senior lawyers 19 Heidi K Gardner Harvard Law School The chartered psychologist as coach 37 Robert Sharpe Psychologist The role of bars in promoting mentoring best practices 49 John E Montgomery National Legal Mentoring Consortium External coaching and mentoring 59 Sally Woodward Sherwood PSF Consulting Coaching needs of lawyers at various stages of their careers 83 Christopher Bockmann Executive coaching and organisational consulting Coaching and mentoring as a key leadership development tool across legal generations 103 Nigel Spencer Reed Smith LLP Jon Stokes Stokes & Jolly Ltd; Saïd Business School, Oxford University Mentoring and coaching to leverage the learning from formal training 119 Sally Sanderson Profex Consulting Planning and mentoring for successful onboarding of lateral hires 133 Marc Bartel Heidrick & Struggles Mentoring and coaching across cultures 143 Philip Beddows The Silk Road Partnership Specific coaching challenges for lawyers 159 Sarah Martin Saïd Business School; Coombs Martin How mentoring and coaching can help with life balance issues 173 Rachel Brushfield EnergiseLegal Coaching for retirement 183 Bill Knight Where next in coaching and mentoring? 197 David Clutterbuck European Mentoring and Coaching Council Lis Merrick Coach Mentoring Ltd About the authors 209

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Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on a crucial time for courts, policing and punishment. Shows how individuals, concerned parties and vested interests drove many of the era's developments. A colourful account, which captures the essence of the period. Running to nearly 700 pages, this comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice system looks at every aspect of these topics from numerous perspectives and across the eighteenth century. The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of Gregory Durston's title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession whose lower orders developed various ways to line their own pockets and magistrates and clerks who often preferred dealing with those cases which attracted fees. The book shows how little was planned by government or the authorities, and how much sprang up due to the efforts of individuals-so that the origins of social control, particularly at a local level, had much to do with personal ideas of morality, class boundaries and perceived threats, serious and otherwise. Based on news reports, Old Bailey and local archives, and other solid records the book weaves a compelling picture of a critical time in English history, through the voices of contemporary observers as well as the best of writings by experts ever since. At its broadest point, the book spans the period from the Glorious Revolution to the early 1820s. It falls into three parts: Crime and the Metropolis-including Metropolitan crime, attitudes to crime and policing, explanations for crime, and criminal law and procedure. Policing-including policing the metropolis, constables, the watch, beadles, the role of the military, and the detection of crime. Justice-including the magistracy and its work, ways of prosecution, trial in the lower and higher courts, and the penal regimes of the day. Whores and Highwaymen concentrates on the Metropolis but also compares other parts of England and Wales.Trade Review'A very-well-researched and readable book... a bit of a romp' - Law Society Gazette; 'A monumental work on crime and justice in eighteenth century London... treasures are contained in its 668 pages' - John Hostettler, Legal Historian and author.Table of ContentsPart One: Crime and the Metropolis; Part Two: Policing; Part Three: Justice.

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