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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Union Law
Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of this well established and highly regarded work on EU law maintains its character by combining comprehensive yet accessible coverage with in-depth analysis of the law and student-friendly pedagogy. It is fully up to date so encompassing critical examination of new important judgments of EU and national courts and developments in institutional, constitutional and substantive EU Law. The book keeps its unique style in that it is both a textbook and a casebook. Case summaries are highlighted in colour-tinted boxes for ease of reference, and are accompanied by key facts and critical analysis, often in the light of subsequent developments.The student-friendly approach is enhanced by market-driven pedagogical features, including: Concise outlines, at the beginning of each chapter describing its content and assisting in revision; An aide-mémoire, often presented in diagrammatic form, at the end of each chapter to highlight and reinforceTrade Review‘This book provides students with a comprehensive and detailed understanding of all aspects of European Union law. It is clear and accessible and has incorporated the most recent changes to this fast-moving and challenging area of the law. It is a must read for all students of the subject.’ Damian Mather, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Law School. ‘European Union Law fills a niche in the market, having an accessible writing style at the same time as being explanatory, evaluative, thorough and up to date. An essential text facilitative of students’ engagement with, and understanding of, a relevant and evolving subject.’ Diane Ryland, Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln. Table of Contents1. THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 2. MEMBERSHIP OF THE EU 3. THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EU 4. SOURCES OF EU LAW 5. LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES IN THE EU 6. COMPETENCES OF THE EU 7. THE COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY (CFSP): A COMPONENT OF EU FOREIGN ACTION 8. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE EU 9. SUPREMACY OF EU LAW 10. DIRECT EFFECT OF EU LAW 11. INDIRECT OR INTRPRETATIVE EFFCT OF EU LAW Indirect or Interpretative Effect of EU LAW 12. DIRECT APPLICABILITY OF EU LAW 13. THE PRINCIPLE OF STATE LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF EU LAW 14. PRELIMINARY RULINGS: ARTICLE 267 TFEU 15. ENFORCEMENT OF EU LAW – ACTIONS AGAINST MEMBER STATES 16. DIRECT ACTIONS AGAINST EU INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES OR AGENCIES - PART I Articles 263, 277 and 265 TFEU 17. DIRECT ACTIONS AGAINST EU INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES OR AGENCIES - PART II Action for damages: non-contractual liability of the European Union under Article 340(2) TFEU 18. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNAL MARKET OF THE EU DUTIES AND CHARGES HAVING EQUIVALENT EFFECT TO CUSTOMS DUTIES (CEEs) 19. ABOLITION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES AND CHARGES HAVING EQUIVALENT EFFECT TO CUSTOMS DUTIES (CEEs) 20. PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATORY INTERNAL TAXATION 21. PROHIBITION OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS (QRs) AND MEASURES HAVING EQUIVALENT EFFECT ON IMPORTS AND EXPORTS (MEQRs) ARTICLES 34 AND 35 TFEU 22. DEROGATIONS FROM ARTICLES 34 AND 35 TFEU LISTED IN ARTICLE 36 TFEU, AND JUSTIFICATIONS BASED ON MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS 23. CITIZENSHIP OF THE EU 24. FREE MOVEMENT OF WORKERS 25.THE RIGHT OF ESTABLISHMENT AND THE RIGHT TO SUPPLY AND RECEIVE SERVICES 26. EXCEPTIONS TO THE FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS 27. INTRODUCTION TO EU COMPETITION LAW 28. ARTICLE 101 TFEU 29. ARTICLE 102 TFEU 30. MERGER CONTROL 31. ENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLES 101 AND 102 TFEU 32. THE AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE (AFSJ)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unlocking Legal Learning
Book SynopsisUnlocking Legal Learning is an essential textbook for undergraduate students new to legal study. By explaining the different fields of this intricate subject and helping you to develop the skills to engage with it successfully, Unlocking Legal Learning will provide you with an essential foundation for your studies and future career. This third edition is fully up-to-date and incorporates new styles of assessment and learning resources.Support for your studies in Unlocking Legal Learning includes:Detailed information on how to succeed in mooting competitions, coursework, and dissertation assignments Numerous tips on how to take good notes and revise effectively for exams Advice on how to tackle problem-based questions and work well in groups Guidance on how to access and understand legal materials and references in print and online The Unlocking the Law series is designed to make the law accessible and covers all the core Table of Contents1. What learning law is all about 2. Lectures and seminars 3. Reading 4. Explaining primary sources and secondary sources 5. Using primary and secondary sources and some other general tips 6. Understanding legal skills and using legal reasoning 7. Completing coursework assignments 1 - individual skills 8. Completing coursework assignments 2 - common skills 9. Completing dissertations or projects 10. Mooting 11. Preparing for examinations - revision 12. Sitting examinations
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Cambridge University Press The Individual in the International Legal System Continuity and Change in International Law 75 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 75
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Cambridge University Press Justiceship England 10661232
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Cambridge University Press A History of the County Court 1846 1971
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Cambridge University Press Cases and Materials on the English Legal System
Book SynopsisCombining 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.Table of Contents1. The organisation of trial courts; 2. Pre-trial civil proceedings; 3. Pre-trial criminal proceedings; 4. The trial process; 5. The jury; 6. Costs and the funding of legal proceedings; 7. Appeals; 8. The legal profession.
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Edinburgh Land Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press The Invisible Constitution of Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior
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Cambridge University Press Selection and Decision in Judicial Process Around the World
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Thomas E. Scrutton
Book SynopsisThis biography of one of England's greatest judges recounts his involvement as barrister, campaigner and judge in key controversies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - the Irish question, the overreaching of executive power in the Great War and the Anglo-Irish War, and his enduring contribution to commercial law.Trade Review'… admirers of Scrutton … have reason to be grateful to David Foxton for producing a close and rigorous assessment of Scrutton's life … The Life of Thomas E. Scrutton is well written, thoroughly researched and … can be most warmly recommended.' Roderick Munday, The Cambridge Law Journal'Mr Foxton's biography shows elegantly and conclusively why Scrutton LJ's impact on the law has been so much greater than that of his forensic and judicial rival, John Hamilton.' Richard Aikens, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Antecedents; 2. A university man; 3. Pupil, professor, husband and politician; 4. 'Patient, laborious asses': onwards and upwards at the Bar; 5. Copyright and the author; 6. The Bench; 7. The War and the law; 8. At the height of his powers: 1919–27; 9. Scrutton the realist?; 10. 'Old Scrutton'.
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Cambridge University Press Pakistans Experience with Formal Law
Book SynopsisLaw reform in Pakistan attracts such disparate champions as the Chief Justice of Pakistan, the USAID and the Taliban. Common to their equally obsessive pursuit of ''speedy justice'' is a remarkable obliviousness to the historical, institutional and sociological factors that alienate Pakistanis from their formal legal system. This pioneering book highlights vital and widely neglected linkages between the ''narratives of colonial displacement'' resonant in the literature on South Asia''s encounter with colonial law and the region''s postcolonial official law reform discourses. Against this backdrop, it presents a typology of Pakistani approaches to law reform and critically evaluates the IFI-funded single-minded pursuit of ''efficiency'' during the last decade. Employing diverse methodologies, it proceeds to provide empirical support for a widening chasm between popular, at times violently expressed, aspirations for justice and democratically deficient reform designed in distant IFI headTrade Review'A fascinating and troubling study of Pakistan's judicial system: its history misunderstood by its acolytes, its practice unaltered by countless reforms, its operations a tribulation for its constituents. Siddique analyzes the limits of scholarly reflection and well intentioned reform by placing them alongside the perceptions, strategies and experiences of those who use the system. A powerful and broad-ranging cautionary tale.' David Kennedy, Harvard Law School'Pakistan's Experience with Formal Law is a critical exploration of a system that is simultaneously familiar and alien. It departs decisively from all the official and approved pronouncements on legal reform, combining a rich experiential account of the frustrations of law in Pakistan (and throughout South Asia) with a provocative analysis of impoverished agendas of reform that fail to address the perplexities of the post-colonial legal situation.' Marc Galanter, London School of Economics and Political Science'This book is a tour de force, bringing together the often forgotten history of British law in colonial India with the important if not at all encouraging story of massively foreign funded rule of law programs in present day Pakistan. The history is a crisp summary, followed by a fascinating first person participant observer report of how rule of law projects actually operate, and a pioneering empirical study of litigation on the ground in a provincial court. Siddique's innovative multi-disciplinary approach could be a model for similar breakthroughs across the global south.' Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School'The major themes that Siddique develops and methods that he employs set the book apart from most legal scholarship. Political and other historical context informs the description of legal doctrine and its evolution during the period discussed. He deplores the inadequate attention given to Pakistan's colonial past and its effects on post-colonial Pakistan's legal system, discourse and reform projects. Discussion ranges from the theoretical framework to descriptions derived from empirical methods of the ordinary lives and experiences of those subject to that system. The author's critical sense is at work throughout, from evaluation of historical and contemporary approaches to law reform to the use by outside funders of notions like efficiency to direct reform projects. Vaut le voyage.' Henry J. Steiner, Emeritus, Harvard Law School'Osama Siddique has produced a theoretically informed and historically grounded study of Pakistans engagement with formal law. This book makes a compelling argument that history matters and the perceptions of ordinary citizens are relevant in crafting a meaningful course towards legal reform. Historians, lawyers, social scientists and policy-makers will read it with profit.' Sugata Bose, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The hegemony of heritage: the 'narratives of colonial displacement' and the absence of the past in Pakistani reform narratives; 2. Law in practice: the Lahore district courts litigants survey (2010–2011); 3. Law, crime, context and vulnerability: the Punjab crime perception survey (2009–2010); 4. Approaches to legal and judicial reform in Pakistan: postcolonial inertia and the paucity of imagination in times of turmoil and change; 5. Reform on paper: a post-mortem of justice sector reform in Pakistan from 1998–2010; 6. Reform nirvanas and reality checks: justice sector reform in Pakistan in the twenty-first century and the monopoly of the 'experts'; 7. Towards a new approach; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press Party Autonomy in Contractual Choice of Law in
Book SynopsisThe principle of party autonomy in contractual choice of law is widely recognised in the law of most jurisdictions. It has been more than thirty years since party autonomy was first accepted in Chinese private international law. However, the legal rules provided in legislation and judicial interpretations concerning the application of the party autonomy principle are abstract and open-ended. Without a critical understanding of the party autonomy principle and appropriate interpretations of the relevant legal rules, judges have not exercised their discretionary power appropriately. The party autonomy principle has been applied in a way that undermines its very purpose, that is, to protect the legitimate expectations of the parties and promote the predictability of outcomes in transnational commercial litigation. Jieying Liang addresses the question of how, when, and with what limitations, parties'' choice of law clauses in an international commercial contract should be enforced by ChineTrade Review'The book analyses party autonomy in PRC law. It considers when the PRC courts will override parties' express choice of law in the social or public interest. It also discusses the likelihood (or not) of PRC courts allowing parties to stipulate non-state law (e.g., the lex mercatoria) as contractual governing law. As a bonus, it sets out the historical and philosophical underpinnings of party autonomy in China. The work is to be commended for its clarity and breadth.' Anselmo Reyes, The University of Hong Kong'Private commercial relations with the People's Republic of China have grown significantly in recent years. Mechanisms for international dispute resolution are therefore important. Given differences in substantive law and uncertainty about a commercial partner's legal system, private agreements on the applicable law (party autonomy) become of central importance. Jieying Liang's work is a masterful and comprehensive study of the development of party autonomy and its present status under the 2010 Chinese Conflicts Statute, including limitations resulting from mandatory norms and the ability to choose non-state law. It is an indispensable resource.' Peter Hay, L. Q. C. Lamar Professor of Law Emory University, AtlantaTable of Contents1. The development of the party autonomy principle in China; 2. The background to the development of party autonomy; 3. The existence and validity of parties' choice of law; 4. The 'law' that can be chosen by parties; 5. Statutory restrictions on party autonomy (I); 6. Statutory restrictions on party autonomy (II); 7. Ascertainment of the foreign law chosen by parties; 8. Contractual choice of law under the 'One Country, Two Systems' regime; 9. The party autonomy principle in the context of the Chinese legal system.
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Cambridge University Press Obligations
Book SynopsisThis book examines in depth the language used by courts, legislators, and academic commentators when describing the nature of obligations law. A comparison is undertaken, analysing the law of England, Scotland, the United States, Canada, and Australia, providing an in-depth analysis of each jurisdiction.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Obligation and liability; 2. Conditionality and contingency; 3. Unilaterality and bilaterality; 4. Gratuitousness and onerousness; 5. Mutuality and reciprocity; 6. Voluntariness and consent; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Year Books
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1921, this book presents a series of lectures on the Year Books delivered in the University of London. The text gives a concise introduction to the Year Books, providing information on their role in the development of the English legal system and importance as historical documents.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The Year Books: what they are; 2. The Plea Rolls and their purpose; 3. The forgotten process by Bills in Eyre re-discovered in the Year Books; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Individual in the International Legal System Continuity And Change In International Law 75 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 75
Book SynopsisWith this generalised study of the development of the role of the individual in international law, Kate Parlett makes a significant contribution to current ideas about non-state actors in international law and provides a synthesised account of the individual in the international legal system in historical perspective.Trade Review'Kate Parlett's analysis is both succinct and comprehensive, inasmuch as it covers 'the areas of international law which have the clearest potential to engage individuals' … The organization of the reasoning in the three … historical periods for each of the areas subject to scrutiny gives the book a clear structure and allows the reader to draw parallels and identify differences in the direct comparison between different fields of law.' Andreas Th. Müller, European Journal of International LawTable of ContentsPart I. The Framework: 1. Structures of the international legal system; Part II. The Individual in International Law: 2. The individual and international claims; 3. The individual in international humanitarian law; 4. The individual in international criminal law; 5. The individual in international human rights law; Part III. Reassessing the Framework: 6. Reflections on the structures of the international legal system.
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Cambridge University Press Law as Religion Religion as Law
Book SynopsisWhereas conventional approaches to law and religion regard these as competing domains, this volume explores a vital alternate perspective, which conceives of them as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that structure the social order. The multi-disciplinary essays address political theology, secularism, church-state conflicts, and divine law.
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The University of Chicago Press Evidence of the Law Proving Legal Claims
Book SynopsisHow does one prove the law? If a neighbor breaks your window, the law regulates how you can show your claim to be true or false; but how do you prove that in breaking your window your neighbor has broken your law? American jurisprudence devotes an elaborate body of doctrine and an equally elaborate body of accompanying scholarly commentary to worrying about how to prove facts. It establishes rules for the admissibility of evidence, creates varying standards of proof, and assigns burdens of proof that determine who wins or loses when the facts are unclear. But the law is shockingly inexplicit when addressing these issues with respect to the proof of legal claims. Indeed, the entire language of evidentiary proof, so sophisticated when it comes to questions of fact, is largely absent from the American legal system with respect to questions of law. As Gary Lawson shows, legal claims are inherently objects of proof, and whether or not the law acknowledges the point openly, proof of legal cl
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The University of Michigan Press The Congressional Black Caucus Minority Voting
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChristina R. Rivers’ timely account of the influence of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on minority voting rights in the U.S. contains valuable insight into the historical and political role of race in the Supreme Court’s voting rights decisions." — APSA Legislative Studies Section"Rivers explores the clash between the Congressional Black Caucus's race-conscious approach and the Supreme Court's color blind perspective on the role of race in redistricting, representation, and the law. ... Graduate seminars on racial politics, election law, or African American political thought would benefit from this book. Scholars who study these topics, in addition to voting rights, redistricting, and the Congressional Black Caucus, should also read this compelling and well-written book." — American Review of Politics
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Penguin Random House India Discordant Notes Volume 1
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Peter Lang AG Implementation of International Law in the United
Book SynopsisEven though the Constitution proclaims treaties entered into by the United States to be part of the supreme law of the land and authorises prosecution of offences against the law of nation in federal courts, the United States has had a checkered record in ratifying human rights instruments, in upholding decisions of international tribunals, and indeed in submitting itself to the jurisdiction of such tribunals. It refused to uphold judgments of the International Court of Justice within its municipal legal system, terminated the competence of the ICJ to adjudicate international disputes to which it is a party, and attempted to undermine the functioning of the international criminal court. It engaged in armed conflicts in blatant violation of international humanitarian law and subjected belligerent detainees to unbecoming interrogation techniques. There are clear indications that the Obama administration is setting the United States on a new course of international comity and Völkerrechtsfreundlichkeit.Table of ContentsContents: American foreign policy – Prosecuting offences against the law of nations – Ratification of international human rights instruments – A juvenile justice system that violates international standards of rights of the child – A hostile attitude toward jurisprudence of international tribunals – American exceptionalism and the international criminal court – Military interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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