Current Legal Problems: 2000 v.53
Published on 21. December 2000
Book
Hardback
688 pages
978-0-19-829940-0 (ISBN)
Description
Current Legal Problems was established after the Second World War as a series of public lectures on law. It is now regarded as the most significant series in the United Kingdom. Each year edited texts are reproduced in the form of a volume. This year's is the 53rd such volume. The range of subject-matter as ever is wide. Subjects explored include the relationship of law and justice, law and literature, the role of the judiciary, mistakes of law, the environment, health care, the EC's internal market and children. Amongst the contributors are James Boyd White of the University of Michigan and Oxford's new Professor of Jurisprudence, John Gardner. A companion volume containing the proceedings of UCL's annual inter-disciplinary colloquium is published each year under the umbrella title Current Legal Issues: Law and Medicine was published in 2000; Law and Geography will be published in 2001.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
908 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-829940-0 (9780198299400)
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Content
Table of Cases; Tables of Statutes, Treaties, and Other Sources; 1. The Virtue of Justice and the Character of Law; 2. Why the Law is Just; 3. What do the Top Courts Do?; 4. Judging Democracy: The Role of the Judiciary Under the Human Rights Act; 5. The Desire for Meaning in Law and Literature; 6. Remains of the Day: Notes from the Women Law Professor's Project; 7. Mistakes of Law; 8. The Death of Ownership; 9. Appointments and Disappointments: White v Jones in Rome and Today; 10. Cross-Fertilization in Private International Law; 11. Political Libels; 12. Time for a Paradigm Shift?: Medical Law in Transition; 13. The Lack of Principles in Labour Law; 14. Hearing a 'Different Voice': Third-party Intervention in Criminal Appeals; 15. Family Rights in the Next Millennium; 16. The End of the Century of the Child; 17. New Strategies for Managing EC's Internal Market; 18. The United Nations Collective Security System and the Establishment of Peace; Index