The Law Express series is designed to help you revise effectively. This book is your guide to understanding essential concepts, remembering and applying key legislation and making your answers stand out![...]
The Law Expressseries is designed to help you revise effectively. This book is your guide to understanding essential concepts, remembering and applying key legislation and making your answers stand out![...]
Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last sixty years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law. This book provides global perspectives on the policy challenges facing family law and policy round the world. The c[...]
Actor network theory is a powerful approach which combines the insights of post--structuralism with an analysis of the materials of social life. This controversial and path--breaking volume extends ANT beyond studies of technology, power and organisation to the body, subjectivity, politics, and cult[...]
Written in simple, understandable terms, this title combines traditional presentation of case law with coverage of trends as it describes both the reasoning behind criminal law and the practical applications of that law.[...]
In today's complex and ever-changing criminal environment, law enforcement agencies have become increasingly aware that their capabilities have been substantially surpassed by the number of criminal acts and rapid expansion of globalized crime. However, despite the growing impact of transnational or[...]
On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors crash-landed in the jungle-covered mountains of Colombia. Within minutes, FARC guerrillas swarmed the wreckage and killed the American pilot and a Colombian crew member, then marched the survivors--Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stans[...]
"Truth be told, they were mostly in it for the money"On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors on a recon patrol crash-landed in the jungle-covered mountains of Colombia. Within minutes, FARC guerrillas swarmed the wreckage and killed the American pilot and a Colombi[...]
Rev. ed. of: Constitutional values / Daniel E. Hall, John P. Feldmeier. c2009.
The Core Text series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all levels. Written by leading academics and renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explain the intellectual challenges of each area of the law. Compa[...]
How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for [...]
The 9th edition of Maudsley & Burn's Land Law Cases and Materials continues to provide an essential reference work for students and practitioners. It includes a wide range of extracts from cases, statutes, Law Commission reports and other literature, which highlight the key issues to understand the [...]
The 29th edition of Anson's Law of Contract provides an authoritative and detailed account of contract law. This renowned textbook is essential reading for any student of contract law, and a valuable source of reference for practitioners and academics.[...]
How should our most intimate personal relationships be governed in a liberal society? Should the state encourage a particular model of family life, or support individuals in their pursuit of personal happiness? To what extent do people have the right to shape the lives of their offspring? This book [...]
This is the long-awaited second edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect profound changes in corporate law. It now includes consideration of additional matters such as the highly topical issue of enforcement in co[...]
The Law of Trusts and Equitable Obligations provides students wtih a detailed and stimulating account of the law of equity and trusts. The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated by Warren Barr, senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool and Law Teacher of the Year 2006 in collaboration with [...]
A clear, authoritative account of the most relevant areas of law for students of estate, real estate, and land management which takes the reader through the English legal system, the law of contract, the law of tort, land law, the law of landlord and tenant, to planning law, taking into account key [...]
A clear, readable, scholarly account of land law, set in the context of its historical foundations.