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Inspired by the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this collection
of essays from across the common law world is concerned with two
separate but related themes. First, to what extent and by what
means should review on substantive grounds such as unreasonableness
be expanded and intensified? Jowell, Elliott and Varuhas all agree
with Taggart that proportionality should not 'sweep the rainbow',
but propose different schemes for organising and conceptualising
substantive review. Groves and Weeks, and Hoexter evaluate the
state of substantive review in Australia and South Africa
respectively. The second theme concerns the broader (Canadian)
sense of substantive review including the illegality grounds, and
whether deference should extend to these grounds. Cane and Aronson
consider the relevance and impact of different constitutional and
doctrinal settings. Wilberg and Daly address questions concerning
when and how deference is to operate once it is accepted as
appropriate in principle. Rights-based review is discussed in a
separate third part because it raises both of the above questions.
Geiringer, Sales and Walters examine the choices to be made in
settling the approach in this area, each focusing on a different
dichotomy. Taggart's work is notable for treating these various
aspects of substantive review as parts of a broader whole, and for
his search for an appropriate balance between judicial scrutiny and
administrative autonomy across this entire area. By bringing
together essays on all these topics, this volume seeks to build on
that approach.
Law is a strange beast. It is often thought of as moral, yet
morality and law do not often coincide. It is supposed to encourage
individuals to act in accordance with societal wishes, such as the
protection of intellectual property encourages someone to invent
new products and thereby increase the level of technology,
productivity, and economic activity in our economy. Yet law often
provides perverse incentives that cause individuals, or even the
State, to act in discordant, and therefore inefficient, ways. More
than anything else, law in its various forms creates the working
rules of an economy, for better or for worse. The popular refrain
'there ought to be a law' is a desire to alter future outcomes when
current or past outcomes seem to the public to be inconsistent with
their notions of fairness and justice. Regardless, many, if not
most, laws applied to our economic system create severe
inefficiencies such as minimum wage legislation and rent control
laws; these actually serve to deny individuals work and shelter in
a haphazard and capricious manner. Law also dictates property
rights, yet eminent domain lets the State take it away with
seemingly arbitrary compensation to the owner. It is for this
reason that workers, employers, managers and others have a stake in
understanding the interplay between law and economics and how to
evaluate laws to determine whether and how their business property
and equity may be impacted by them. It is also incumbent upon
individuals to understand the process of rulemaking as a mechanism
that can be designed to reduce the transactions costs that cause us
to resort to the legal system to resolve disputes. One unique
aspect of this book is that it is written with both economists and
non-economists in mind. Another difference is that this text does
not concern itself with criminal law, which is left to a separate
book in the Business Expert Press economics collection. A final
difference is that this text discusses the legal organization of
businesses as well as tax law from an economics perspective, two
items that are not formally treated in other economics of law
textbooks.
The law of torts recognises many defences to liability. While some
of these defences have been explored in detail, scant attention has
been given to the theoretical foundations of defences generally. In
particular, no serious attempt has been made to explain how
defences relate to each other or to the torts to which they
pertain. The goal of this book is to reduce the size of this
substantial gap in our understanding of tort law. The principal way
in which it attempts to do so is by developing a taxonomy of
defences. The book shows that much can be learned about a given
defence from the way in which it is classified. This new paperback
edition contains a substantial preface in which the author responds
to critics. Reviews 'James Goudkamp's book can rightly claim to be
the first serious attempt to examine tort law defences
systematically and it is a very important addition to the private
law canon ... [His] analysis is consistently thought-provoking ...
[T]his book will provide the framework for future analysis of all
private law defences'. Graham Virgo, The Cambridge Law Journal
'This book ... is the first sustained attempt in the modern law to
explore the theoretical foundations of the defences to liability
recognised by the law of tort and their interrelationship ... [It
is] an instant classic'. Ken Oliphant and Annette Morris, Yearbook
of European Tort Law 'James Goudkamp's Tort Law Defences fills a
startling gap in tort law scholarship... [It] provides an
impressive foundation for the future study of defences, and will
undoubtedly become the standard against which all other works are
measured'. Erika Chamberlain, Canadian Business Law Journal
It has been generally believed among different sections and groups
of the society that legal education is only for the law students,
lawyers etc. But have you ever thought that how important role can
basic legal education plays in our daily life. It is very necessary
for every person to have certain knowledge of Law, otherwise it
would become very difficult for him to tackle several problems,
from consumer protection to fundamental rights. One of the reasons
for popular dissatisfaction with the administration of justice is
the uncertainty of law which sometimes results in miscarriage of
justice. The multiplicity of interpretations, the inadequacies of
legislative drafting, ambiguities in policies and the variety of
languages in which transactions are made add to the confusion and
make repeated litigation inevitable. This book "Law for the Common
Man" will be of immense help for layman to understand the legal
issues in simple and effective manner. This book will be of immense
help to make people aware about their rights and duties.
"The ornament of the Common Law." Lyttleton, His Treatise of
Tenures, in French and English. A New Edition, Printed From the
Most Ancient Copies, And Collated With the Various Readings of the
Cambridge MSS. To Which Are Added The Ancient Treatise of the Olde
Tenures, And the Customs of Kent. Originally published: London: S.
Sweet, 1841. lv, 1], 727 pp. Paperback. New.
With index. Parallel text in Law-French and English. Written during
the reign of Edward IV 1442-1483], Littleton's Tenures was much
admired for its learning and style. It is concerned with the
doctrines of old English Common Law regarding the tenures of real
estate as well as issues related to real property. This venerable
work, which Coke called "the ornament of the Common Law, and the
most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any humane
science," is a considered a landmark because it renounced the
principles of Roman law in favor of a set of guidelines and
doctrines drawn from the Year Books, and when necessary,
hypothetical cases.
Sir Thomas Littleton 1402-1481] was a King's Serjeant, Judge of
Assize and Justice of the Common Pleas.
T.E. Tomlins 1804-1872] was a notable legal writer and antiquarian.
His is best known for his Popular-Law Dictionary (1838). (He is
confused sometime with his uncle, Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, the
prolific legal writer and editor of the later editions of Jacob's
Law-Dictionary.)
(Illustrated: Contains extensive images and photographs, with
scholarly explanations, including Holmes's handwritten notes in the
margins of his book and the original admission ticket to his 1880
lectures.) Modern, accurate, and legible edition of the classic
work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., analyzing the concept of rules
and the development of common law in the United States and England
over ten centuries. Presented in a clear and affordable format, yet
with original pagination embedded to allow accurate citation or
uniform references for classroom use. Includes photographs and rare
images, Holmes's original Index, Preface and detailed Contents
(features missing in many prior editions), and readable typeface.
Holmes wrote this work from his famous 1880 series of lectures in
Boston on the life of the law, the use of history, and the basics
of torts, contracts, crime, and property law. Law, he wrote, is a
response to the felt necessities of the time. And in the process he
wrote a book that is considered timeless. This modern edition of
the classic book features an explanatory introduction and
biographical summary by Steven Alan Childress, J.D., Ph.D., a
senior law professor at Tulane University.
The Best Edition of this Classic History: A Comprehensive Legal
History of England from the Anglo-Saxon Period through the 19th
Century. Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett 1897-1965] received his
LL.B. from the University of Cambridge in 1920. He was a Fellow of
the British Academy, Professor of Legal History, University of
London, and Assistant Professor of Legal History at Harvard
University. He was also the author of Early English Legal
Literature (1958) and Edward I and Criminal Law (1960). "Professor
Plucknett has such a solid reputation on both sides of the Atlantic
that one expects from his pen only what is scholarly and
accurate... Nor is the expectation likely to be disappointed in
this book. Plucknett's book is not...a mere epitome of what is to
be found elsewhere. He has explored on his own account many regions
of legal history and, even where the ground has been already
quartered, he has fresh methods of mapping it. The title which he
has chosen is, in view of the contents of the volume, rather a
narrow one. It might equally well have been A Concise History of
English Law... In conjunction with Readings on the History and
System of the Common Law by Dean Pound...this book will give an
excellent grounding to the student of English legal history."
--Percy H. Winfield. Harvard Law Review 43 (1929-30) 339-340. "
T]his book, comprehensive yet not elementary, clear yet inviting
further study on the part of the reader, remains an excellent
introduction to legal history and the study of law."-- Harvard Law
Review 50 (1937-38) 1012. SELECTED CONTENTS BOOK ONE A General
Survey of Legal History Part I The Crown and the State Part II The
Courts and the Profession Part III Some Factors in Legal History
Book TWO Special Part Part I Procedure Part II Crime and Tort Part
III Real Property Part IV Contract Part V Equity Part VI Succession
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. compiled this master work in 1881 from
his famous lectures in Boston on the origins, reasoning, and import
of the common law. "The life of the law has not been logic: it has
been experience." It jump-started legal realism and established law
as a pragmatic way to solve problems and make policy, not just a
collection of rules. It has stood the test of time as one of the
most important and influential studies of law and the development
of legal rules. This book is interesting for a vast audience, and
considered one of the most original books on U.S. law, for
historians, students, political scientists, and those who follow
the concept of rules. It is also a recommended read before law
school. A new edition of Holmes' classic study of the judicial
development of law. Includes 2010 Foreword by Steven Alan
Childress, J.D., Ph.D., law professor at Tulane. Embeds correct
footnote numbers and original page numbers for citing. Carefully
reproduced from the original book but in a modern, readable format.
Quid Pro's Legal Legends Series offers high-quality editions of
legal scholarship, in print and digital formats. In addition, each
book contains a scholar's new Foreword and biographical summary, to
place the work in historical context and explain it to the reader.
A new take on Holmes' classic study of law and judicial development
of rules. "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been
experience." Annotated throughout with simple
clarifications-decoding and demystifying it for the first time-to
make it accessible to a new generation of readers. Features new
Foreword and extensive notes by Steven Alan Childress, J.D., Ph.D.,
law professor at Tulane. Includes correct footnote numbers and
original page numbers for citing. Contains rare photographs and
insightful biographical section as well. As lamented by Holmes'
premier biographer in 2006, The Common Law "is very likely the
best-known book ever written about American law. But it is a
difficult, sometimes obscure book, which today's lawyers and law
students find largely inaccessible." No longer. With insertions and
simple definitions of the original's language and concepts, this
version makes it live for college students (able to "get it," at
last, with legal terms explained), plus law students, lawyers, and
anyone wanting to understand his great book. No previous edition
has offered annotations. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. compiled his
master work in 1881 from lectures on the origins, reasoning, and
import of the common law. It jump-started Legal Realism and
established law as a pragmatic way to solve problems and make
policy, not just a bucket of rules. It has stood the test of time
as one of the most important and influential studies of law. This
book is interesting for a vast audience-including historians,
students, and political scientists. It is also an often-recommended
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The book highlights the interconnections between three framing
concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race,
and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an
objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule
of law is historically grounded and linked to the particularities
of Christian morality, the forces of capitalism dependent upon
exploitation of minorities, and specific conceptions of
individualism that surfaced with the Reformation in the sixteenth
century, and rapidly developed in the Enlightenment in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing upon landmark legal
decisions and historical events, the book emphasizes that justice
is not blind because our concept of justice changes over time and
is linked to economic power, social values, and moral sensibilities
that are neither universal nor apolitical. Highlighting the
historical interconnections between religion, race and rights aids
our understanding of contemporary socio-legal issues. In the
twenty-first century, the economic might of the USA and the west
often leads toward a myopic vision of law and a belief in its
universal application. This ignores the cultural specificity of
western legal concepts, and prevents us from appreciating that,
analogous to past colonial periods, in a global political economy
Anglo-American law is not always transportable, transferable, or
translatable across political landscapes and religious communities.
'Darian-Smith's new book is an example of what is most exciting
about new scholarship in the humanities. It works across
disciplinary and methodological boundaries in its attempt to deal
with one of our most pressing current social problems - determining
the consequences of the sometimes violent interaction of race,
religion and law in times of social crisis. Darian-Smith explodes
the myth of secularism in modern society, and the illusion of
post-racialism, in her unblinking analysis of present dilemmas.
Once you read this book you will never again think that the western
concept of individual rights is sufficient to resolve the
contradictions of modern existence. This is a genuinely important
step forward in western scholarship' - Stanley Katz, President
Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies and
Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. 'Eve
Darian-Smith takes us on an amazing journey covering four centuries
that brilliantly illuminates the continuously evolving interplay of
law, religion, and race in the Anglo-American experience. This
wonderfully readable book is imaginatively organized around a
series of eight landmark 'law moments' that ingeniously show how
legal rights are always being subtly shaped by culturally
prevailing ideas about religion and race, a process that still goes
on in our supposedly 21st century secular world that claims to be
free of racism' - Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of
International Law Emeritus, Princeton University. 'In this volume,
Eve Darian-Smith offers a passionate, wide-ranging analysis of the
complex, historically-vexed relations among religion, race, and
rights over the past four plus centuries. The book begins, in 1571,
with Martin Luther and ends, at the dawn of the new century, with
the discriminatory labor practices of Walmart, the recent crusades
of George Bush and his theocons, and the resurgence of religious
faith. By way of a well-chosen sequence of 'legal landmarks' - each
an historical drama in its own right, each a piece of theater in
which judicial processes take center stage - Darian-Smith develops
a compelling, complex critique of the law, of its inherent
ambiguities, its violence, its possibilities. And its historical
entailment in political, economic, social and ethical forces well
beyond itself, forces that, repeatedly, have opened up a yawning
gap between its ideological (self)representation and the realities
of its everyday practice. This is an ambitious work of scholarship,
one which, by virtue of brush strokes at once deft and broad,
challenges us to understand the legal underpinnings of our world in
new ways' - Jon Comaroff, University of Chicago.
A decisive influence on sociological jurisprudence, legal realism
and the general development of Anglo-American law in the twentieth
century. Rejecting the reigning positivist ethos of the nineteenth
century, Holmes proposed that the law was not a science founded on
abstract universal principles but a body of practices that
responded to particular situations. This functionalist
interpretation led to his radical conclusion that law was not
discovered, but invented. This theme is announced at the beginning
of Lecture I: The life of the law has not been logic: it has been
experience. The Common Law was easily the most distinguished book
on law by an American published between 1850 and 1900. Lawrence M.
Friedman, A History of American Law It is a book of large
proportions, from whichever side approached. (...)We cannot close
without expressing again our admiration of a book which is so
ingenious and so temperate; so rich in learning, thought, argument,
and brilliant intuitions. American Law Review Holmes's] brilliant
exposition, as effective on English scholarship and legal thinking
as on American, of the true nature of law both as a development
from the past and an organism of the present, blew fresh air into
lawyer's minds encrusted with Blackstone and Kent. Percy Winfield,
Chief Sources of English Legal History One of the greatest jurists
of the twentieth century, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1841-1935] was
educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Admitted to the
Massachusetts Bar in 1867, he was equally active as a practitioner
and scholar. He edited the American Law Review (1870-78), produced
an edition of James Kent's Commentaries on American Law (1873) and
delivered the lectures that formed the basis of The Common Law.
Published in 1881, this book established Holmes's reputation. After
teaching briefly at Harvard Law School he was appointed Associate
Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1882. Chief
Justice of that court from 1899 to 1902, he was then appointed
Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, a position he held until
the end of his life. Known as The Great Dissenter in the early
years of his career because of his frequent opposition to the
Court's conservatism, he went on to become of the most influential
justices in its history. His opinions are cited frequently today
and are highly esteemed for their intellectual depth and elegant
composition.
Friedrich Julius Stahl was one of Germany's leading constitutional
scholars in the 19th century, prior to the advent of Bismarck and
the establishment of a united Germany. The Doctrine of State and
the Principles of State Law is the centerpiece of his magnum opus,
the Philosophy of Law. This is the first English-language
translation of this key work of legal and political philosophy. It
is written from a Christian and conservative background, but
cognizant of and generous toward the liberal mainstream of
constitutional opinion that characterized his day. Historians,
legal scholars, and philosophical fellow-travelers all will gain
greatly by perusing this magnificent yet forgotten work.
Common law is explored as the alternative to natural rights as a
means of restricting state power. The separation of powers is
weighed in the balance and found wanting as a brake on state power.
The underlying root of this inability is discovered in the
philosophy of natural rights. Natural rights gave birth to the
separation of powers, but neither the former nor the latter has
been able to restrain government. This failure is highlighted in
detail, and the alternative means to the same end, the common law,
is brought to the fore.
The Common Law is a book about common law in the United states,
including torts, property, contracts and crime, written by Supreme
Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This classic is a must
read for anyone wishing to understand American Common Law from an
historical perspective. Simply one of the most important books ever
written on American Law.
Many countries use and apply the common law. The common law world
largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic
legislature. These statutes are drafted and interpreted according
to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons
evolved over centuries by common law judges.
In this book, Francis Bennion distills forty years of his prolific
writings on statute law and statutory interpretation to provide
valuable guidance on statutory interpretation applicable to all
common law jurisdictions.
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Global fresh water scarcity and empirical studies on the bad
quality of water in Europe made the Community aware of the need to
protect this vital resource. Since water has no frontiers, the
Member States decided to endeavour a common approach in its
protection. It is the aim of this treatise to show the Community's
policy and legislation in water protection, which has been evolving
since its origins in the Seventies throughout the last decades. The
most ambitious approach which has been undertaken by the Community
in this field of law lately, is the Water Framework Directive. Its
provisions and its implementation into national law by the Member
States (Austria, France) are at the centre of this treatise. Common
challenges and the way the Member States deal with them are
presented. The common approach results fruitful which is important,
since - in the end - a stringent transposition of the existing and
future rules set by the Community on behalf of water protection
will respond to the claim future generations have on fresh water.
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