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Statutes in Court
The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 1999
How do judges determine the meaning of laws? The extent to which judges should exercise their discretion in interpreting legislation has been a contentious issue throughout American history, involving questions about the balance of power between the legislature and the judiciary. In Statutes in Court...
The Education of a Lawyer
Essential Skills and Uncommon Advice for Building a Successful Career
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
This book is a delightful read that provides invaluable advice about the practice of law. Written for aspiring and young attorneys, the book is a font of wisdom on a range of topics: legal writing, speaking, handling clients, staying current on the law, and managing all the relationships typically encountered...
Sitting in Judgment
The Working Lives of Judges
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The public image of judges has been stuck in a time warp; they are invariably depicted in the media - and derided in public bars up and down the country - as 'privately educated Oxbridge types', usually 'out-of-touch', and more often than not as 'old men'. These and other stereotypes - the judge as...
Bewigged and Bewildered?
A Guide to Becoming a Barrister in England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Misunderstandings and jargon prevent many from seriously considering a career as a barrister in the belief that such a career is not for them or that they are not for it. Others know that they might want to become barristers but not how to go about it, or just want to know more about this somewhat...
Taking Stock of Environmental Assessment
Law, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This edited collection analyzes the appropriate balance between conservation and development and the place for participation and popular protest in environmental assessment. Examining the relationship between law, environmental governance and the regulation of decision-making, this volume takes a...
Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence
The Power of Words, Rules and Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Over recent decades national environmental policies have become increasingly alike. This book analyses the driving forces of this process of policy convergence, providing an in-depth empirical analysis of the international forces at work. It does so by investigating how four countries - France, Hungary,...
Irreparable Harm
A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses. What he received instead was a cold shoulder from a CIA that in 1975 was already...
by Kenneth A. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
With A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Kenneth A. Adams has created a uniquely in-depth survey of the building blocks of contract language. First published in 2004, it offers those who draft, review, negotiate, or interpret contracts an alternative to the dysfunction of traditional contract...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.
This new book gives special attention to the development of ‘environmental governance’ in contemporary China, especially on the urban...
A Straightforward Guide To Divorce And The Law
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
A Straightforward Guide to Divorce and the Law has been updated to reflect changes in the legal system affecting divorce proceedings to 2018 and is designed exclusively for anyone who wishes to proceed with a divorce case without the use of a solicitor or who wishes simply to learn more about the...
Attorney-Client Privilege in the Americas
Professional Secrecy of Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the major challenges facing the legal profession today is how to adapt and apply the concept of attorney-client privilege (or professional secrecy) in an increasingly globalised world. Rules on attorney-client privilege differ significantly from country to country. This book explores such differences...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
International law is not merely a set of rules or processes, but is a professional activity practised by a diversity of figures, including scholars, judges, counsel, teachers, legal advisers and activists. Individuals may, in different contexts, play more than one of these roles, and the interactions...
by Ellen R. Feingold
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book is the first study of the development and decolonization of a British colonial high court in Africa. It traces the history of the High Court of Tanzania from its establishment in 1920 to the end of its institutional process of decolonization in 1971. This process involved disentangling the...
The Pirate Myth
Genealogies of an Imperial Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous. It haunts the imagination of international legal scholars, diplomats and statesmen involved in the war on terror. It returns in the headlines of international newspapers as an untimely ‘security threat’. It materializes on the most provincial...