Mapping The Law

Author : Peter Birks,Andrew S. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199206554

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Mapping the Law by Peter Birks,Andrew S. Burrows Pdf

This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of Peter Birks, who was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College. Widely known as one of the most prolific legal scholars for over twenty years, his contribution to English obligations lawis legendary. He was Founder of the Clarendon Law Lectures, editor of the Clarendon Law Series, editor of the Oxford English Law Series, and author of several works on the English law of restitution, comparative restitution, and unjust enrichment.This works in this volume cover the English law of unjust enrichment and restitution, comparative perspectives on unjust enrichment and restitution, Roman law, and legal history, reflecting the range on Peter Birks' work and influence.As one of the most distinguished academic lawyers of his generation Peter Birks' contribution to legal scholarship grew to be recognised as one of the most outstanding by a British jurist in the second half of the twentieth century. This collection attempts to acknowledge and pay tribute to PeterBirks' work.

Author : Paul H. Robinson,Tyler Scot Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781440860133

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Mapping American Criminal Law by Paul H. Robinson,Tyler Scot Williams Pdf

Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape. This first-of-its-kind volume sketches the diversity implicit in United States criminal law doctrine through its examination of a range of criminal laws pertaining to murder, sexual assault, drug offenses, the insanity defense, and more and the way in which different states deal with those issues. In addition to providing insights into the most widely invoked standards in criminal law, it raises awareness of the enormous discrepancies among the criminal laws of states, documenting them using dozens of visually coded maps that showcase geographic, political, and socioeconomic differences to explain patterns of agreement and disagreement. Mapping American Criminal Law: Variations Across the 50 States is for political scientists, criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars, policy advisors, legislators, lawyers, judges, and scholars and students of these fields. In addition, each chapter is highly accessible to laypersons and includes an explanation of the subject matter as well as explanations of the various approaches to criminal law taken by states.

Author : Andrew S. Burrows,Alan Rodger,Lord Alan Rodger of Earlsferry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil law
ISBN : OCLC:1132018060

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Mapping the Law by Andrew S. Burrows,Alan Rodger,Lord Alan Rodger of Earlsferry Pdf

'Mapping the Law' covers topics such as aspects of unjust enrichment, tracing, damages & compensation, undue influence, property law, insolvency, equity & trusts, Roman law, & legal history. This collection of essays on private law & legal history celebrates the life & work of Peter Birks.

Author : Jamie Murray,Thomas Webb,Steven Wheatley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351658171

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Complexity Theory and Law by Jamie Murray,Thomas Webb,Steven Wheatley Pdf

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law. Complexity theory – a variant of systems theory – views law as an emergent, complex, self-organising system comprised of an interactive network of actors and systems that operate with no overall guiding hand, giving rise to complex, collective behaviour in law communications and actions. Addressing such issues as the unpredictability of legal systems, the ability of legal systems to adapt to changes in society, the importance of context, and the nature of law, the essays look to the implications of a complexity theory analysis for the study of public policy and administrative law, international law and human rights, regulatory practices in business and finance, and the practice of law and legal ethics. These are areas where law, which craves certainty, encounters unending, irresolvable complexity. This collection shows the many ways complexity theory thinking can reshape and clarify our understanding of the various problems relating to the theory and practice of law.

Author : Simon Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190695620

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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities by Simon Stern Pdf

How does materiality matter to legal scholarship? What can affect studies offer to legal scholars? What are the connections among visual studies, art history, and the knowledge and experience of law? What can the disciplines of book history, digital humanities, performance studies, disability studies, and post-colonial studies contribute to contemporary and historical understandings of law? These are only some of the important questions addressed in this wide-ranging collection of law and humanities scholarship. Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. The essays explore under-researched domains such as comics, videos, police files, form contracts, and paratexts, and shed new light on traditional topics, such as free speech, intellectual property, international law, indigenous peoples, immigration, evidence, and human rights. The Handbook provides an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of law and humanistic inquiry.

Author : Jeremy I Levitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847314178

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Africa by Jeremy I Levitt Pdf

The principal aim of this work is to provide a forum for leading international lawyers with experience and interest in Africa to address a broad range of intellectual challenges concerning the contribution of African states and peoples to international law. As such, the volume addresses orthodox topics of international law - such as jurisdiction and intervention - but tackles them from an African perspective, and seeks to ask whether, in each case, the African perspective is unique or affirms existing arrangements of international law. The book cannot come at a more important time. While international legal discourse has been captured by the challenge of terrorism since September 11, 2001, there are clear signs that other issues are returning to the fore. Political interest in Africa has undergone a global revival, and the OAU has been transformed into the African Union. Infrastructural challenges, along with those taking place in regional contexts, have effectively mapped a new politico-legal landscape for Africa. This, and more, is explored, and the key normative questions are addressed in a series of essays by leading Africanist scholars. 'This is a remarkable collection of essays that clearly and concisely demonstrates that Africa has and will continue to play a major role in fashioning new norms of international law and policy and contribute to its progressive development by affirming existing norms. Professor Levitt is to be commended for having the vision, leadership and intellectual prowess to produce this excellent text. The book signals a major shift from the study of Africa as a basket case to a normative market place.' Akua Kuenyehia, Vice President, International Criminal Court 'Professor Levitt's work, Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law, is pathbreaking in the true sense of that word. Through old and new voices, it excavates the singular contributions of Africa to a discipline that is marked by Eurocentrism and imperial aspirations. The authors, taking their cue from the indefatigable and insightful Professor Levitt, establish beyond a shadow of a doubt the enormity of the normative contributions that Africa has made to international law. The book must therefore be seen as a defining contribution to the multiculturalization of international law. It is for this reason that Professor Levitt is among the most important American academics working and thinking in international law today.' Makau Mutua, Interim Dean, SUNY Distinguished Professor, State University of New York Buffalo Law School

Author : Laurence R. Helfer,Graeme W. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139496919

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Human Rights and Intellectual Property by Laurence R. Helfer,Graeme W. Austin Pdf

This book explores the interface between intellectual property and human rights law and policy. The relationship between these two fields has captured the attention of governments, policymakers, and activist communities in a diverse array of international and domestic political and judicial venues. These actors often raise human rights arguments as counterweights to the expansion of intellectual property in areas including freedom of expression, public health, education, privacy, agriculture, and the rights of indigenous peoples. At the same time, creators and owners of intellectual property are asserting a human rights justification for the expansion of legal protections. This book explores the legal, institutional, and political implications of these competing claims: by offering a framework for exploring the connections and divergences between these subjects; by identifying the pathways along which jurisprudence, policy, and political discourse are likely to evolve; and by serving as an educational resource for scholars, activists, and students.

Author : David Mangan,Lorna E. Gillies
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785364518

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The Legal Challenges of Social Media by David Mangan,Lorna E. Gillies Pdf

Social media enables instant access to individual self-expression and the sharing of information. Social media issues are boundless, permeating distinct legal disciplines. The law has struggled to adapt and for good reason: how does the law regulate this medium over the public/private law divide? This book engages with the legal implications of social media from public and private law perspectives and outlines how the law, in various legal sub-disciplines and with varying success, has endeavoured to adapt existing tools to social media.

Author : Susan Gay Drummond
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774809252

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Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities by Susan Gay Drummond Pdf

Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when the voices of each discipline are invited to speak to each other. Susan Drummond forges this hybrid form of comparative work through small- and large-scale studies of Gitano marriage law as it emerges in a Western European state, in a modern urban centre, and in particular communities and families. Drummond’s mapping of Gitano marriage law is grounded in ethnographic fieldwork in Andalucia. The study draws initially from the tradition of comparative law to focus on the emergence of Spanish state family law in a predominantly national and international context. Drummond then adopts the role of legal anthropologist to examine a particular legal culture that exists within, and also beyond, the Spanish state: that of the Gitanos and the transnational Roma. Ultimately, she brings the international, national, and cultural dimensions of law into play with one another and contemplates how all of these influences bear on the spirit of Andalusian Gitano marriage law. The result is an ethos of marriage law in a thoroughly mixed legal jurisdiction. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities will appeal to scholars and students in comparative law and legal anthropology, as well as readers interested in Roma studies in general, and the Gitanos in particular.

Author : Susan Drummond
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774841481

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Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities by Susan Drummond Pdf

Susan Drummond investigates what happens when the voices of comparative law and legal anthropology are invited to speak to each other. She forges this hybrid form of comparative work through small- and large-scale studies of Gitano marriage law as it emerges in a Western European state, in a modern urban centre, and in particular communities and families. Ultimately, she brings the international, national, and cultural dimensions of law into play with one another and contemplates how all of these influences bear on the spirit of Andalusian Gitano marriage law. The result is an ethos of marriage law in a thoroughly mixed legal jurisdiction.

Author : Cesar Rodriguez Garavito
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136002403

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Law and Society in Latin America by Cesar Rodriguez Garavito Pdf

Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their causes, and processes of globalization have had profound effects on legal norms and practices. Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map offers the first systematic assessment by leading Latin American socio-legal scholars of the momentous transformations in the region. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative lens, contributors analyze the central advances and dilemmas of contemporary Latin American law. Among them are pioneering jurisprudence and legal mobilization for the fulfillment of socioeconomic rights in a highly unequal region, the rise of multicultural constitutionalism and legal struggles around identity politics, the globalization of legal education and practice, tensions between developmental policies and environmental justice, and the emergence of a regional human rights system. These and other processes have not only radically altered the institutional landscape of the region, but also produced academic and practical innovations that are of global interest and defy conventional accounts of Latin American law inherited from law-and-development studies. Painting a portrait of the new Latin American legal thought for an international audience, Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map will be of particular interest to students of comparative law, legal mobilization, and Latin American politics.

Author : George J. Annas,Sherman Elias
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015026935638

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Gene Mapping by George J. Annas,Sherman Elias Pdf

This timely work brings together a group of the nation's leading experts in genetics, medicine, history of science, health, law, philosophy of science, and medical ethics to assess the current state of modern human genetics, and to begin to chart the legal and ethical guidelines needed to prevent the misuse of human genetics from leading to the abuse of human beings. The six sections of the book, read together, map the social policy con tours of modern human genetics. The first part describes the science of the Human Genome Project. The second addresses specific social policy implications, including the relevance of recombinant DNA history, the eugenics legacy, military applications, and issues of race and class in the context of genetic discrimination. Broader philosophical issues, including reductionism and determinism, the concept of disease, and using germline gene therapy to "improve" human beings are discussed in the third part.

Author : Richard Grimes
Publisher : Legal Pedagogy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415792002

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Re-thinking Legal Education Under the Civil and Common Law by Richard Grimes Pdf

Part 1 - Mock-trials in an accusatorial and inquisitorial context -- Part 2 - Teaching EU law in an experiential way -- Final words -- Index

Author : Conrad Saam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : 1641056088

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Own the Map by Conrad Saam Pdf

Author : George Cho
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471948578

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Geographic Information Systems and the Law by George Cho Pdf

By the millennium most government departments and businesses willrely on some sort of GIS to conduct their everyday activities. Thepower and speed of such a tool in planning, research and managingspatial databases is invaluable. However, it is becomingincreasingly apparent that the legal implications of GIS are asconvoluted as those raised by the Internet. This is alreadybecoming a field which is stretching legal systems around the worldto their limit. Users, practitioners, developers, and custodians ofdata need a clear guide. This book, avoiding technological andlegal jargon, clarifies the issues of the rights, limitations, andresponsibilities of GIS. Geographic Information Systems and the Lawaddresses the legal relations between those who provide data andthose who use the data. Areas covered include: * the legal regimes and economic aspects of GIS * contract law governing information technology * data and information in a digital age * legal liabilities -- damages, negligence, and standards ofcare * public access and ownership of information * privacy and security issues -- intellectual property andcopyright * international law and the globalisation of informationtechnology The analysis is illustrated by an international range of casematerial from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia andNew Zealand. Geography / Information Studies / Law