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Learn the skills it takes to succeed as a law graduate with this
essential text. Letters to a Law Student, 5th edition, Global
Edition by Nicholas J McBride, provides a thorough introductory
guide to higher education and learning context for law studies.
Voted in the top 6 books that future law students should read, it
is an approachable and easy-to-follow guidebook. The text flows as
a series of letters between a lecturer and aspiring student,
divided into chronological parts from thinking about a law degree
to preparing to study law, studying law, writing like a lawyer, and
thinking about the future. McBride adds practical advice throughout
the book, supporting your transition from school to studying law as
a first-year undergraduate. The 5th edition helps to build
confidence and encourages the essential study and legal skills you
will need to succeed. Packed with new and revised material, Letters
to a law student remains a current and helpful reference. This text
is a great companion for general law modules on skills, legal
system, jurisprudence and law, government, and society to keep you
thinking critically, analysing and understanding the law.
Gain the tools to understand tort law like a professional with this
accessible and current text. Tort Law, 6th edition, Global Edition,
by Nicholas McBride and Roderick Bagshaw, is an essential text for
anyone studying law. Written by two leading scholars in the field,
this book will equip you with all the information you need to
succeed in your studies, combining detailed coverage of legal
principles with wider literature and discussions on topics to
develop your critical thinking skills. The text supports your
learning through hypothetical case scenarios and guided further
reading. Now in its 6th edition, Tort Law has been extensively
updated to include the latest information available on the subject,
including all important case-law and legislative developments. Such
developments include material on: The expansion of vicarious
liability. The treatment of the notion of 'defect.' Reinvigoration
of the tort. Recognition of a tort of the malicious institution of
civil proceedings. Attempts to reform the law on the defence of
illegality. With its range of learning features and the latest
available information, this text is ideal for studying tort law at
undergraduate or postgraduate level.
This book provides an in-depth and easy to understand account of a
subject that students often find dauntingly difficult to master.
The opening chapter sets out some definitions of what a trust is,
and goes on to clearly explain the history of trusts law and how
both trusts law and the roles played by trusts have changed over
time. Different types of trust (trusts for persons, charitable and
non-charitable purpose trusts, express trusts, constructive trusts,
and resulting trusts) are explored in detail over the following two
chapters. The fourth chapter sets out the law on when someone will
commit a breach of trust and what remedies will be available when
such a breach is committed; the obscure and intimidating
terminology that affects this area of law is explained and made
easy to use. A concluding chapter explores the harms caused by
trusts law, particularly through its use to store wealth in tax
havens abroad, and considers possibilities for reforming the law to
mitigate those harms. With references to almost 150 books and
articles, and almost 150 cases, this book will save students a huge
amount of time in terms of developing a sophisticated knowledge of
the past, present and potential futures of trusts law both in
England & Wales, and across the world, as well as the academic
and judicial debates that surround this area of law.
What does it take to succeed as a law student? This book will show
you how. Voted one of the top 6 books that all future law students
should read by The Guardian's studying law website*, Letters to a
Law Student is packed full of practical advice and helpful answers
to the most common questions about studying law at University
across every stage of taking, or thinking about taking, a law
degree. Discover: * Whether reading law at University is the right
thing for you; * What law students do; * How to get the best marks
in exams; * Tips on coping with the challenges of studying law; *
What you can do with a law degree; * The way in which qualifying as
a solicitor is set to change in the future, ... and much more.
Nicholas J. McBride is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
*http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/aug/08/six-best-law-books
Part II of The Humanity of Private Law charts a new course for
English private law in the twenty-first century. Part I set out the
vision of human flourishing that English private law has in mind in
seeking to promote its subjects' flourishing. Part II argues in
favour of a very different account of what human flourishing
involves, and explains what private law would look like were it to
base itself on this alternative vision of the nature of human
flourishing. This volume: sets out and evaluates different models
of what human flourishing involves; argues in favour of the view
that human flourishing involves being engaged in a quest to lead a
truthful life; explains in what ways a private law that sought to
foster this distinctive vision of human flourishing would be
different from English private law in its current state, in
particular with regard to: (i) tackling fraud; (ii) promoting
freedom of speech; (iii) preserving attention capacities; (iv)
protecting people from being subjected to degrading or hateful
treatment; and (v) enabling people to make a fresh start in their
lives; and, considers whether and when it would be legitimate for
the courts to transform English private law in the ways suggested
in this volume. Part II of The Humanity of Private Law is a radical
and prophetic book that is essential reading for anyone who is
interested in understanding the contribution private law can make
to our living in a society that promotes the flourishing of all its
members.
This book introduces the reader to a number of ideas and issues
that underlie the English law of contract-an area of law that is
often regarded as forbiddingly dry and technical but which is here
made easy to understand and full of interest. Taking as its
starting point the role contract law plays in helping markets to
operate, the book explains how contract law regulates the
commercial risks people take, while at the same time placing limits
on what may be bought and sold, and ensuring that contractual
powers are not unacceptably abused. A final chapter discusses how
contract law can be used to make gifts of binding promises to other
people. The book provides a rigorous and stimulating journey
through the ideas underpinning contract law and is essential
reading for anyone with an interest in the subject. 'Clearly
written and bursting with interesting and novel ideas, this lively
book will be a great resource for anyone interested in Contract
Law.' Paul S Davies, Professor of Commercial Law, University
College London
The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about
English private law. Making a decisive break from earlier views of
private law, which saw private law as concerned with
wealth-maximisation or preserving relationships of mutual
independence between its subjects, the author argues that English
private law's core concern is the flourishing of its subjects. THIS
VOLUME - presents a critique of alternative explanations of private
law; - defines and sets out the key building blocks of private law;
- sets out the vision of human flourishing (the RP) that English
private law has in mind in seeking to promote its subjects'
flourishing; - shows how various features of English private law
are fine-tuned to ensure that its subjects enjoy a flourishing
existence, according to the vision of human flourishing provided by
the RP; - explains how other features of English private law are
designed to preserve private law's legitimacy while it pursues its
core concern of promoting human flourishing; - defends the view of
English private law presented here against arguments that it does
not adequately fit the rules and doctrines of private law, or that
it is implausible to think that English private law is concerned
with promoting human flourishing. A follow-up volume will question
whether the RP is correct as an account of what human flourishing
involves, and consider what private law would look like if it
sought to give effect to a more authentic vision of human
flourishing. The Humanity of Private Law is essential reading for
students, academics and judges who are interested in understanding
private law in common law jurisdictions, and for anyone interested
in the nature and significance of human flourishing.
The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about
English private law. Making a decisive break from earlier views of
private law, which saw private law as concerned with
wealth-maximisation or preserving relationships of mutual
independence between its subjects, the author argues that English
private law's core concern is the flourishing of its subjects. THIS
VOLUME - presents a critique of alternative explanations of private
law; - defines and sets out the key building blocks of private law;
- sets out the vision of human flourishing (the RP) that English
private law has in mind in seeking to promote its subjects'
flourishing; - shows how various features of English private law
are fine-tuned to ensure that its subjects enjoy a flourishing
existence, according to the vision of human flourishing provided by
the RP; - explains how other features of English private law are
designed to preserve private law's legitimacy while it pursues its
core concern of promoting human flourishing; - defends the view of
English private law presented here against arguments that it does
not adequately fit the rules and doctrines of private law, or that
it is implausible to think that English private law is concerned
with promoting human flourishing. A follow-up volume will question
whether the RP is correct as an account of what human flourishing
involves, and consider what private law would look like if it
sought to give effect to a more authentic vision of human
flourishing. The Humanity of Private Law is essential reading for
students, academics and judges who are interested in understanding
private law in common law jurisdictions, and for anyone interested
in the nature and significance of human flourishing.
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