Few have shaped the field of law, both as practitioner and writer, as Michael Beloff KC. This expertly curated collection tracks this impact through his writings and lectures.
In a work divided into four interrelated parts Advocacy, Judges, History and Sport each is singly illuminated by the author's own experience and insight reflected in the accompanying illustrations.
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A thoughtfully curated collection of writings from one of the finest legal minds of his generation.
Part One - Introduction
Part Two - Advocacy
i. A View from the Bar
ii. Advocacy as Art.
iii. Virtuous Voices - the Advocates contribution to the Rule of Law
iv. Looking at the Locus
Part Three - Judges
i. Towards a Supreme Court - the British Experience
ii. Neither Cloistered nor Virtuous; Judges and their Independence in the New
Millenium
iii. Paying Judges - why, who, whom, how much?
Part Four - History
i. Women in Wigs - the Irresistible Rise of Sisters in Law
ii. FE Smith - Lessons from a Legal Life
iii. Law and the Judiciary in Blairs Britain
iv. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
a. Carman
b. Slynn
c. Nicholls
d. Laws
Part Five - Sport
i. Pitch, Pool, Rink Court? Judicial Review in the World of Sport
ii. The Specificity of Sport; Rhetoric or Reality?
iii. Is there a Lex Sportiva?
iii. Sport Ethics and the Law.
The Hon Michael Beloff KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers and a former President of Trinity College Oxford, UK.
