This book examines the view of women held by medieval common lawyers and legislators, and considers medieval womens treatment by and participation in the processes of the common law....Loe edasi...
The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of the relationship between government and the governed came to be reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal system from the 1970s to the present day in England and W...Loe edasi...
The Formation of the English Common Law explores the Anglo-Saxon origins of common law and the influence of the Norman invaders and their later administrative reforms, shedding light upon society at the time. This new edition includes a chapter char...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Apr-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199683130)
This book investigates the intersection between law and worker voice in a sample of industrialised English speaking countries, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and USA. While these countries face broadly similar regulatory dilemmas, they h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Mar-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198260301)
By 1216 the foundations of the English common law had been laid. This book assesses the development of law and society during the preceding three centuries, including the Norman Conquest of 1066. It analyses the great legacy of the Anglo-Saxon realm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2009, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199564101)
The common law world (the Commonwealth and United States) operates through statutes applied under a uniform system, the essence of which is uniquely described in this book. In this book, Francis Bennion distills forty years of his prolific writings...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Dec-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199213290)
This book examines how judges in the top courts of nine common law countries develop the law by devising new principles to allow innovation and to ensure that human rights are universally protected. The jurisdictions covered include Australia, Canad...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199227655)
The idea of law as being the product of states dominated the legal theories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Globalization has challenged the notions which underlie this idea. This book argues that the concept of common law is a means of r...Loe edasi...
This is the first ever index of contributions to common law Festschriften and fills a serious bibliographic gap in the literature of the common law....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2006, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199207602)
Describes how the courts created rights for land owners and users competing to appropriate water for factories, town supply, drainage, and transport. This work covers the period from early times to the late nineteenth century, illustrating the chang...Loe edasi...
This book commemorates a place and a time in American law teaching, but also an outlook: the common law tradition. This is a collective portrait of five scholars in Chicago in the 1960s who epitomize the tradition. The book provides a reminder of wh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Dec-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198252481)
Describes the encounter between the common law legal system and the tribal people of North America and Australasia. Looking at the nature of British imperialism and the position of non-Christian peoples in the 17th and 18th-centuries, this book desc...Loe edasi...
This book examines legal responses to euthanasia and whether legal reform is an appropriate response to calls for it to be more readily available....Loe edasi...
