Trusts Law Text and Materials Law in Context 4th edition

Tittle: Trusts Law Text and Materials Law in Context 4th edition
Author: Graham
Year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Size: 8.41 MB
ISSN: 0-521-67466-2
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Equity and Trusts is a core subject of study for nearly all law students. Unlike most other texts, this book approaches them from a contextual standpoint rather than focussing on legal sources alone. It emphasizes the numerous family, commercial and charitable contexts within which the legal rules operate, and integrates analysis of the law with discussion of those contexts. Selective use is made of extracts from key legal and non-legal mateirals to help provide a focus for study.

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Trusts and Equity Foundation Studies in Law Series

Tittle: Trusts and Equity Foundation Studies in Law Series
Author: Richard Edwards, Nigel Stockwell
Year: 2004
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Size: 5.92 MB
ISSN: 1 405 81227 3
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The initial aim that we had when writing the first edition – to demystify the law

of equity and trusts without undue over-simplification – remains and we hope

that the book conveys our enthusiasm for a branch of the law which, although

having ancient origins, lends itself to providing solutions to problems of the 21st

century.

As the law becomes ever more complex and the application of equity and trusts

becomes more widespread, these aims continue, in our view, to be important.

We have rewritten portions of the text to take account of new developments and

changes in our appreciation of the law.

From the many pieces of recent legislation we have included the Civil

Partnership Act 2004 which makes very significant changes in the law in that, in

many ways, it assimilates the legal position of a same-sex couple who register their

partnership with that of a married couple.

The Charities Bill is discussed as, if it reaches the statute books, it may well have

far reaching implications for charities both in terms of what legally constitutes a

charity and how charities operate.

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Thomas Jefferson The Revolution of Ideas

Tittle: Thomas Jefferson The Revolution of Ideas

Author: R. B. Bernstein

Year: 2004

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Size: 13.95 MB

ISSN: 0-195-14368-X

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In this new concise biography Thomas Jefferson historian R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder not as a great political figure, but as leader of a "revolution of ideas that would make the world over again".

Bernstein examines Jefferson's strengths and weaknesses, his achievements and failures, his triumphs, contradictions, and failings. Thomas Jefferson details his luxurious (and debt-burdened) life as a Virginia gentleman to his passionate belief in democracy, from his tortured defense of slavery to his relationship with Sally Hemings. An architect, inventor, writer, diplomat, propagandist, planter, party leader Jefferson was multifaceted, and Bernstein explores these roles even as he illuminates Jefferson's central place in American enlightenment the "revolution of ideas" that did so much to create the nation we are today. Bernstein also examines the less-remembered points in Jefferson's thinking the nature of the Union, his vision of who was entitled to citizenship, his dread of debt (both personal and national).

Thomas Jefferson is the latest title in the Oxford Portraits series, which offers informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaped their times and continue to influence ours. Each volume in the series is heavily based on primary documents, including writings by and about each subject. Every Oxford Portrait is illustrated with a wealth of photographs, original letters, manuscripts, and memorabilia that frame the personality and achievements of its subject against the backdrop of history. Every volume in the series can be incorporated into the American history curriculum at the middle and high school levels.

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The Struggle for Constitutional Power Law Politics and Economic Development in Egypt

Tittle:The Struggle for Constitutional Power Law Politics and Economic Development in Egypt

Author: Tamir Moustafa

Year: 2007

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Size: 2.43 MB

ISSN: 0-521-87604-4

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For nearly three decades, scholars and policymakers have placed considerable stock in judicial reform as a panacea for the political and economic turmoil plaguing developing countries. Courts are charged with spurring economic development, safeguarding human rights, and even facilitating transitions to democracy. How realistic are these expectations, and in what political contexts can judicial reforms deliver their expected benefits?

In The Struggle for Constitutional Power, Tamir Moustafa addresses these issues through an examination of the politics of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the most important experiment in constitutionalism in the Arab World.

The Egyptian regime established a surprisingly independent constitutional court to address a series of economic and administrative pathologies that lie at the heart of authoritarian political systems. Although the Court helped the regime to institutionalize state functions, it simultaneously opened new avenues through which rights advocates and opposition parties could challenge the regime. The Struggle for Constitutional Powerexamines the dynamics of legal mobilization in this most unlikely political environment.

Standing at the intersection of political science, economics, and comparative law, The Struggle for Constitutional Powerchallenges conventional wisdom and provides new insights into perennial questions concerning the barriers to institutional development, economic growth, and democracy in the developing world.

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The Regulatory Function of European Private Law

Tittle: The Regulatory Function of European Private Law
Author: Fabrizio Cafaggi, Horatia Muir-Watt
Year: 2009
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Size: 1.00 MB
ISSN: 1-847-20199-7
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`In twelve topical papers, written by renowned experts in distinct areas of the law, the reader will find out how private law and private international law instruments can serve public policy goals (such as the protection of the environment, product safety or services of general economic interest) and how these instruments interact with regulation in the proper sense. A must for those who want to explore the borderline - if it exists - between public and private law in the EU.'
- Jules Stuyck, Leuven University, Belgium

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Studies in Law Politics and Society

Tittle: Studies in Law Politics and Society
Author: Hugh Lindsay
Year: 2009
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Size: 0.90 MB
ISSN: 1-84950-696-0
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This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" brings together research on law's cultural life and on institutions and actors who translate interests, preferences, and values into legal policy. It offers perspectives from an interdisciplinary and international community and contains contributions from scholars of theology, political science, criminology, bio-ethics, and law in the United States, Israel, and Canada.

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Perspectives on Labour Law Law in Context

Tittle: Perspectives on Labour Law Law in Context
Author: A. C. L. Davies
Year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Size: 1.93 MB
ISSN: 0521605237
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This is an accessible but thought-provoking introduction to labour law. It is suitable for those coming to the subject for the first time, and it will also be of interest to more advanced students, including postgraduates, who need to think about the subject's broader themes. The academic literature on labour law makes considerable use of human rights arguments and of economic analysis. Both of these approaches provide valuable insights into the underlying policy of the law but they can be rather off-putting for students who do not know the international human rights instruments, or who have no background in economics. This book introduces these wider perspectives on labour law and then applies them to a selection of topics, including anti-discrimination law, dismissal, working time, pay, consultation and collective bargaining, trade union membership and industrial action.

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Modern Studies in Property Law

Tittle: Modern Studies in Property Law
Author: Elizabeth Cooke
Year: 2003
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Size: 1.20 MB
ISSN: 1-841-13173-3
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The Modern Studies in Property Law series is a collection of the papers given at the biennial conferences of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading. Volume II contains the proceedings from the conference in 2002, and includes a wide range of papers from both English and international speakers, covering many of the most topical issues within the law of property.

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Legal Strategies How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance

Tittle: Legal Strategies How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance
Author: Antoine Masson, Mary J. Shariff
Year: 2010
Publisher: Springer
Size: 5.36 MB
ISSN: 3-642-02134-4
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Far from regarding the law as supreme, corporations approach law as an element of executive thought and action aimed at optimizing competitiveness.

The objective of this book is to identify, explore and define corporate legal strategies that seek advantage in the opportunities revealed when the Law is perceived as a resource to be mobilized and aligned with the firm’s business and economic agendas.

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Law’s order what economics has to do with law and why it matters

Tittle: Law’s order what economics has to do with law and why it matters
Author: David D. Friedman
Year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Size: 1.56 MB
ISSN: 0-691-09009-2
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What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims. This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting.

Drawing on numerous commonsense examples, in addition to his extensive knowledge of Chicago-school economics, David D. Friedman offers a spirited defense of the economic view of law. He clarifies the relationship between law and economics in clear prose that is friendly to students, lawyers, and lay readers without sacrificing the intellectual heft of the ideas presented. Friedman is the ideal spokesman for an approach to law that is controversial not because it overturns the conclusions of traditional legal scholars--it can be used to advocate a surprising variety of political positions, including both sides of such contentious issues as capital punishment--but rather because it alters the very nature of their arguments. For example, rather than viewing landlord-tenant law as a matter of favoring landlords over tenants or tenants over landlords, an economic analysis makes clear that a bad law injures both groups in the long run. And unlike traditional legal doctrines, economics offers a unified approach, one that applies the same fundamental ideas to understand and evaluate legal rules in contract, property, crime, tort, and every other category of law, whether in modern day America or other times and places--and systems of non-legal rules, such as social norms, as well.

This book will undoubtedly raise the discourse on the increasingly important topic of the economics of law, giving both supporters and critics of the economic perspective a place to organize their ideas.

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Law Without Justice Why Criminal Law Doesn’t Give People What

Tittle: Law Without Justice Why Criminal Law Doesn’t Give People What They Deserve
Author: Paul H. Robinson, Michael T. Cahill
Year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Size: 3.60 MB
ISSN: 0-195-16015-0
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If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and routinely sacrifice justice? In this unflinching look at American criminal law, Paul Robinson and Michael Cahill demonstrate that cases with unjust outcomes are not always irregular or unpredictable. Rather, the criminal law sometimes chooses not to give defendants what they deserve: that is, unsatisfying results occur even when the system works as it is designed to work. The authors find that while some justice-sacrificing doctrines serve their intended purpose, many others do not, or could be replaced by other, better rules that would serve the purpose without abandoning a just result. With a panoramic view of the overlapping and often competing goals that our legal institutions must balance on a daily basis, Law without Justice challenges us to restore justice to the criminal justice system. Features over 60 photographs.

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Law and Law Enforcement Issues

Tittle: Law and Law Enforcement Issues
Author: Gerald M. Kessler
Year: 2008
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Size: 13.19 MB
ISSN: 1-604-56044-4
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This book presents important issues and developments in the law and law enforcement field, including both federal and international laws and law enforcement.

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Latin American Law A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America

Tittle: Latin American Law A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America
Author: M. C. Mirow
Year: 2004
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Size: 2.45 MB
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Private law touches every aspect of people's daily lives - landholding, inheritance, private property, marriage and family relations, contracts, employment, and business dealings - and the court records and legal documents produced under private law are a rich source of information for anyone researching social, political, economic, or environmental history. But to utilize these records fully, researchers need a fundamental understanding of how private law and legal institutions functioned in the place and time period under study. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction in either English or Spanish to private law in Spanish Latin America from the colonial period to the present. M. C. Mirow organizes the book into three substantial sections that describe private law and legal institutions in the colonial period, the independence era and nineteenth century, and the twentieth century. Each section begins with an introduction to the nature and function of private law during the period and discusses such topics as legal education and lawyers, legal sources, courts, land, inheritance, commercial law, family law, and personal status. Each section also presents themes of special interest during its respective time period, including slavery, Indian status, codification, land reform, and development and globalisation.

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John Law Economic Theorist and Policy Maker

Tittle: John Law Economic Theorist and Policy Maker
Author: Antoin E. Murphy
Year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Size: 4.45 MB
ISSN: 0-198-28649-X
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Despite his popular reputation as a rake and a gambler, John Law (1671–1729) left a remarkable legacy of economic concepts at a time when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. His vision of a monetary and financial system was more of the twenty-first rather than the eighteenth century. Law believed in an economy of banknotes and credit where specie had no role to play. He was the first economic writer to use concepts such as demand and supply, the demand for and supply of money, the money-in-advance requirement, the circular flow of income, and the law of one price. Law was able to implement his economic theory in the form of economic policy during the Mississippi System that he created. This produced Europe's first stock market boom and crash. The collapse of the Mississippi System and closely afterwards the crash of the South Sea Bubble led to a lasting impression of Law as a failure. This book seeks to dispel this view.

Keywords: banks, bubbles, circular flow of income, credit, demand for money, France, John Law, law of one price, Mississippi System, money supply, money, money-in-advance requirement, Scotland, speculation, stock market, supply and demand

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Invitation to Law and Society An Introduction to the Study of Real Law Chicago Series in Law and Society

Tittle: Invitation to Law and Society An Introduction to the Study of Real Law Chicago Series in Law and Society
Author: Kitty Calavita
Year: 2010
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Size: 0.69 MB
ISSN: 0-226-08997-5
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Law and Society is a rapidly-growing interdisciplinary field that turns on its head the conventional, idealized view of the “Law” as a magisterial abstraction. Kitty Calavita’s Invitation to Law and Society brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law shapes and manifests itself in the institutions and interactions of human society, while inviting the reader into conversations that introduce the field’s dominant themes and most lively disagreements.

Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar personal examples, Calavita shows how scholars in the discipline are collectively engaged in a subversive exposé of law’s public mythology. While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to the use of the law in everyday life, as well as its potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its mythic counterpart. In a field of inquiry that has long lacked a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to its ways of thinking, Invitation to Law and Society will serve as an engaging and indispensible guide.

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Intellectual Property amp Free Trade Agreements International Intellectual Property Law Series

Tittle: Intellectual Property amp Free Trade Agreements International Intellectual Property Law Series
Edited by: Christopher Heath and Anselm Kamperman Sanders
Year: 2007
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Size: 1.12 MB
ISSN: 978-1-84113-801-5
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Fundamental Texts on European Private Law

Tittle: Fundamental Texts on European Private Law
Author: Oliver Radley-Gardner, Hugh Beale, Reinhard Zimmermann
Year: 2003
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Size: 1.63 MB
ISSN: 1-841-13378-7
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Among the most significant legal developments of our time is the emergence of a European private law. The European Union enacts directives which profoundly affect the practice, teaching and study of core areas of 'classical' private law. Internationally commissions have formulated principles of European trusts, contract and commercial law. Furthermore, uniform private law can be found in a number of international conventions.

This book gathers together fundamental texts from these three sources into one convenient volume. Its emphasis is on general civil and commercial law, particularly on the obligations and property aspects of these. Fully updated, it contains the recent directives in the areas of E-Commerce, Electronic Signatures and Late Payments. It also makes available for the first time English language versions of a number of texts by international commissions.

This book is a sister volume to the original German and the subsequent Spanish version. With full references to the implementation of the directives in Denmark, EIRE, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom, this book will be a useful resource for practitioners, students and teachers working in the field of European private law.

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Economic Sanctions Law and Public Policy

Tittle: Economic Sanctions Law and Public Policy
Author: Kern Alexander
Year: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Size: 2.25 MB
ISSN: 0–230–52555–5
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Financial sanctions have become important instruments of regulatory and foreign policy in recent years. Following 9/11, the leading G10 developed countries have increasingly been using targeted financial sanctions against designated states, international terrorist organizations, drug traffickers, and their commercial and financial supporters. This book provides the first in depth study examining the post-9/11 financial sanctions programmes in the US and Europe, and the key regulatory and legal issues that confront businesses and related liability issues for third parties and individuals.

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Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life

Tittle: Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life
Author: Eric M. Uslaner
Year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Size: 2.99 MB
ISSN: 0-521-87489-0
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Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily-or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality and low levels of generalized trust (which are not readily changed) and poor policy choices (which may be more likely to change). Economic inequality provides a fertile breeding ground for corruption-and, in turn, it leads to further inequalities. Just as corruption is persistent, inequality and trust do not change much over time in my cross-national aggregate analyses. Uslaner argues that high inequality leads to low trust and high corruption, and then to more inequality-an inequality trap and identifies direct linkages between inequality and trust in surveys of the mass public and elites in transition countries. Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park, where he has taught since 1975. He has written seven books including The Moral Foundations of Trust (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and The Decline of Comity in Congress (University of Michigan Press, 1993). In 1981-82 he was Fulbright Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and in 2005, he was a Fulbright Senior Specialist Lecturer at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia. In 2006 he was appointed the first Senior Research Fellow at the Center for American Law and Political Science at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China.

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Chinese Contract Law Theory and Practice

Tittle: Chinese Contract Law Theory and Practice
Author: Mo Zhang
Year: 2006
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Size: 1.31 MB
ISSN: 9-004-15041-2
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis in the theories and framework of Chinese contract law as well as its implication in Chinese judicial practices through the recent cases in Chinese people’s courts. It aims to provide answers to the above questions in a systematic way, theoretically and practically; it therefore analyzes the issues surrounding the process of contract-making and performance under the Chinese contract law and doctrines underlying the law. The focus is upon issue-oriented discussions from which different solutions may be drawn based on the nature of particular fact patterns. In addition, for research purposes, an analytical comparison is employed with regard to the laws that govern contracts to help illustrate how Chinese law is distinctive. In short, the book presents a well-analyzed inside view of Chinese contract law in theory and practice, which will be of interest to both academic researchers and practitioners in the area of contracts.

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