This work takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area of American law today, comprising the fields of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, publicity rights, and misappropriation. Topics range from copyright in private letters to defensive patenting of business methods, from moral rights in t[...]
This fifth edition is an accessible guide written for nonspecialists that contains extensive new materials covering developments in the past ten years of employee labor laws.[...]
Wade & Forsyth's Administrative Law is the definitive account of the principles of judicial review and the administrative arrangements of the United Kingdom. Firmly established among the foremost rank of legal textbooks, it stands unparalleled in both scope and detail.[...]
The compilation of extracts from cases, academic articles, and statutes are carefully selected and abridged by subject experts, to make this a thorough resource for all criminal law students. The authors carefully provide context for the extracts, providing brief introductions to the topic areas an[...]
Targeting is the primary method for securing strategic objectives in an armed conflict. Failure to comply with the law of targeting jeopardizes the achievement of those aims. It is therefore essential that all those involved in or studying issues surrounding targeting have an accurate and complete [...]
In Counterinsurgency Law, William Banks and several distinguished contributors explore from an interdisciplinary legal and policy perspective the multiple challenges that counterinsurgency operations pose today to the rule of law - international, humanitarian, human rights, criminal, and domestic. A[...]
For years William Gould has argued for labor law reform that would facilitate trade union organization and collective bargaining. That position, which he expands upon in this latest book, is based on his belief in the value of pluralism, the importance of employee participation in the economy as wel[...]
Winner, 1996 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize for the best book onliberal and democratic theory, Conference for the Study of PoliticalThought. Winner, 1994 First Book Prize, Foundations of PoliticalThought Organized Section, American Political Science Association.Between the Norm and the Exception [...]
Offers a mix of cases, articles, documents, text, charts, tables, and questions. This book introduces concepts of international law.[...]
The 1948 Genocide Convention has become a vital legal tool in the international campaign against impunity. Its provisions, including its enigmatic definition of the crime and its pledge both to punish and prevent the 'crime of crimes', have now been interpreted in important judgments by the Internat[...]
Covers legal rights and responsibilities in both the public and private sectors. This title shows students about the law using the cases and ethical dilemmas. It reflects the various changes in the law.[...]
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. * Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today, written by an international assembly of dist[...]
Written by a lawyer and an economist, this is the first full-length economic study of tort law--the body of law that governs liability for accidents and for intentional wrongs such as battery and defamation. Landes and Posner propose that tort law is best understood as a system for achieving an effi[...]