Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books

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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012

Landmark Cases in Equity continues the series of essay collections which began with Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (2006) and continued with Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (2008) and Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (2010). It contains essays on landmark cases in the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

Among the most significant legal developments of our time is the emergence of a European private law. The European Union has enacted regulations and directives which profoundly affect the practice, teaching and study of core areas of 'classical' private law. Within Europe, commissions have formulated...

Rethinking Criminal Law Theory

New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law

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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

In the last two decades, the philosophy of criminal law has undergone a vibrant revival in Canada. The adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has given the Supreme Court of Canada unprecedented latitude to engage with principles of legal, moral, and political philosophy when elaborating its...

Law Books in Action

Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise

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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012

'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled...

The Law Emprynted and Englysshed

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475-1642

by David John Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

What impact did the printing press – a new means of communicating the written word – have on early modern English lawyers? This book examines the way in which law printing developed in the period from 1475 up until 1642 and the start of the English Civil War. It offers a new perspective on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

Criminal cases raise difficult normative and legal questions, and are often a consequence of compelling human drama. In this collection, expert authors place leading cases in criminal law in their historical and legal contexts, highlighting their significance both in the past and for the present. The...
by Dr Andrew Lyall
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017

The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies...
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Release Date: June 16, 2016

In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion figures in the decisions, actions and experiences...
by Anthony Arlidge, Lord Igor Judge
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta.The story of how Magna Carta came into being ,and has been interpreted since, and its impact on individual rights and constitutional developments has more twists and turns than any work of historical fiction. The authors bring...

Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution

Process, Politics and Democracy

by Michael Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The status of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty in the contemporary UK Constitution is much contested. Changes in the architecture of the UK Constitution, diminishing academic reverence for the doctrine, and a more expansive vision of the judicial role, all present challenges to the relevance,...
by Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011

`England', Benjamin Disraeli famously said, `does not love coalitions'. But 2010 saw the first peace-time coalition in Britain since the 1930s. The coalition, moreover, may well not be an aberration. For there are signs that, with the rise in strength of third parties, hung parliaments are more likely...
by Dr Stephen Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014

In 1965, the UK excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in connection with the founding of a US military facility on the island of Diego Garcia. Consequently, the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were secretly exiled to Mauritius,...

Arbitration in China

A Legal and Cultural Analysis

by Kun Fan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

In the context of harmonisation of arbitration law and practice worldwide, to what extent do local legal traditions still influence local arbitration practices, especially at a time when non-Western countries are playing an increasingly important role in international commercial and financial markets?...
by Jane Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011

This book provides a critical and contextual understanding of the current Russian Constitution. It comprises seven chapters: an introduction followed by substantive chapters covering specific aspects of Russia's constitutional history, structure and practice: the history and nature of the constitution;...
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