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Tort Law

by James O’Mahony ...

Series series Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision Series
The study of law can be an arduous and burdensome endeavour. Students can be overwhelmed by the unrelenting volume and complexity of legal texts. This can result in students failing to adequately understand the basic principles of their relevant study areas.Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision Series strives to take the drudgery and difficulty out of legal studies. The objective of the series is to ... Read more

$18.70 CAD

The study of law can be an arduous and burdensome endeavour. Students can be overwhelmed by the unrelenting volume and complexity of legal texts. This can result in students failing to adequately understand the basic principles of their relevant study areas.Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision Series strives to take the drudgery and difficulty out of legal studies. The objective of the series is to
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The Idea of Private Law

by Ernest J Weinrib ...

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and non-instrumental moral ... Read more

$46.07 CAD

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and non-instrumental moral
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Unjust Enrichment

by Peter Birks ...

Series series Clarendon Law Series
This new edition of Unjust Enrichment by the editor of the Clarendon Law Series, is a fully updated, clear and concise account of the law of unjust enrichment. It attempts to move away from the use of obscure terminology inherited from the past. This text is the first book to insist on the switch from restitution to unjust enrichment, from response to event. It organises modern law around five ... Read more

$62.99 CAD

This new edition of Unjust Enrichment by the editor of the Clarendon Law Series, is a fully updated, clear and concise account of the law of unjust enrichment. It attempts to move away from the use of obscure terminology inherited from the past. This text is the first book to insist on the switch from restitution to unjust enrichment, from response to event. It organises modern law around five
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Tort Law in Portugal

by Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira ...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in Portugal. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each person's most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale. ... Read more

$79.99 CAD

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in Portugal. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each person's most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale.
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Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

by Alan Ackerman ...

$31.04 CAD
Tort Law in Chile

by Alfredo Ferrante ...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in the Chile. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each person's most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale ... Read more

$86.99 CAD

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in the Chile. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each person's most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale
... Read more
Law for Journalists

A Guide To Media Law

by Frances Quinn ...

Frances Quinn is an award-winning journalist who specialises in legal affairs. She is also the co-author of a number of popular student legal texts in the Elliott and Quinn series (Pearson). ... Read more

$32.39 CAD

Frances Quinn is an award-winning journalist who specialises in legal affairs. She is also the co-author of a number of popular student legal texts in the Elliott and Quinn series (Pearson).
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Annotations to Surplus Lines Statutes, Sixth Edition

Edited by Ronnie L. Johnson ...

The surplus lines market segment has grown tremendously since the fifth edition of this book. Surplus lines carriers have been providing more coverage in hard-to-insure markets and when the insurance market becomes "hard," domestic insurance prices rise. And with more catastrophic losses, such as losses caused by wildfires, hurricanes, and other weather-related events, causing a hardening market, ... Read more

$121.67 CAD

The surplus lines market segment has grown tremendously since the fifth edition of this book. Surplus lines carriers have been providing more coverage in hard-to-insure markets and when the insurance market becomes "hard," domestic insurance prices rise. And with more catastrophic losses, such as losses caused by wildfires, hurricanes, and other weather-related events, causing a hardening market,
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University of Chicago Law Review: Volume 80, Number 3 - Summer 2013

by University of Chicago Law Review ...

The University of Chicago Law Review's third issue of 2013 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars, as well as extensive student research on cutting-edge topics. Contents include:ARTICLES• Tortfest, by J. Shahar Dillbary• Judging the Flood of Litigation, by Marin K. Levy• Unbundling Constitutionality, by Richard Primus• When Nudges Fail: Slippery ... Read more

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The University of Chicago Law Review's third issue of 2013 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars, as well as extensive student research on cutting-edge topics. Contents include:ARTICLES• Tortfest, by J. Shahar Dillbary• Judging the Flood of Litigation, by Marin K. Levy• Unbundling Constitutionality, by Richard Primus• When Nudges Fail: Slippery
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Causation in Negligence

by Sarah Green ...

Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
The principal objective of this book is simple: to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation, in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached and the law relating to them more easily understood. The need for this has been increasingly evident in recent judgments dealing with causal issues: in particular, it seems to be ... Read more

$42.74 CAD

The principal objective of this book is simple: to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation, in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached and the law relating to them more easily understood. The need for this has been increasingly evident in recent judgments dealing with causal issues: in particular, it seems to be
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The Humanity of Private Law

Part II: Evaluation

by Mr Nicholas McBride ...

Part II of The Humanity of Private Law charts a new course for English private law in the twenty-first century. Part I set out the vision of human flourishing that English private law has in mind in seeking to promote its subjects' flourishing. Part II argues in favour of a very different account of what human flourishing involves, and explains what private law would look like were it to base ... Read more

$123.11 CAD

Part II of The Humanity of Private Law charts a new course for English private law in the twenty-first century. Part I set out the vision of human flourishing that English private law has in mind in seeking to promote its subjects' flourishing. Part II argues in favour of a very different account of what human flourishing involves, and explains what private law would look like were it to base
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Illegality after Patel v Mirza

Edited by Sarah Green, Professor Alan Bogg ...

Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based. Whilst the result was reached unanimously, the reasoning could be said to have divided the Court. Lord Toulson, Lady Hale, Lord Kerr, Lord Wilson, Lord Hodge and ... Read more

$75.77 CAD

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based. Whilst the result was reached unanimously, the reasoning could be said to have divided the Court. Lord Toulson, Lady Hale, Lord Kerr, Lord Wilson, Lord Hodge and
... Read more
Apportionment in Private Law

Edited by Professor Kit Barker, Ross Grantham ...

Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event. It examines both doctrines and principles that share responsibility between plaintiffs and defendants, on the one hand, and between multiple defendants, on the other.The doctrines examined include those 'originating' ... Read more

$64.52 CAD

This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event. It examines both doctrines and principles that share responsibility between plaintiffs and defendants, on the one hand, and between multiple defendants, on the other.The doctrines examined include those 'originating'
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The Tort of Conversion

by Sarah Green, Mr John Randall ...

The legal and commercial importance of the tort of Conversion is difficult to overstate, and yet there remains a sense that the principles of the tort are elusive. Most recently, this was illustrated by the difficulties posed for the House of Lords by the Conversion issue in OBG v Allan [2007] UKHL 21, on which it was closely divided.Conversion, as we now recognise it, has a complex pedigree. ... Read more

$208.34 CAD

The legal and commercial importance of the tort of Conversion is difficult to overstate, and yet there remains a sense that the principles of the tort are elusive. Most recently, this was illustrated by the difficulties posed for the House of Lords by the Conversion issue in OBG v Allan [2007] UKHL 21, on which it was closely divided.Conversion, as we now recognise it, has a complex pedigree.
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Great Debates in Tort Law

by Dr Jonathan Morgan ...

Series series Great Debates in Law
Exploring the key discussions and arguments in tort law, this book enables students to get a deeper and more rounded understanding of the subject.Part of the Great Debates series, it is an engaging introduction to the more advanced legal concepts, such as negligent breach of duty and vicarious liability. Each chapter is structured around questions and debates that provoke deeper thought. It ... Read more

$44.72 CAD

Exploring the key discussions and arguments in tort law, this book enables students to get a deeper and more rounded understanding of the subject.Part of the Great Debates series, it is an engaging introduction to the more advanced legal concepts, such as negligent breach of duty and vicarious liability. Each chapter is structured around questions and debates that provoke deeper thought. It
... Read more
Human Rights in Private Law

Edited by Professor Dan Friedmann, Daphne Barak-Erez ...

Traditionally,the theory of human rights limited its application to the public domain, namely the relationships between individuals and public authorities. The great expansion of human rights legislation and concepts in modern national and international law has given rise to a major issue relating to their potential impact on private relationships. This book examines this important topic, which ... Read more

$57.68 CAD

Traditionally,the theory of human rights limited its application to the public domain, namely the relationships between individuals and public authorities. The great expansion of human rights legislation and concepts in modern national and international law has given rise to a major issue relating to their potential impact on private relationships. This book examines this important topic, which
... Read more
Exploring Private Law

Edited by Elise Bant, Matthew Harding ...

Inspired by recent debate, the purpose of this collection of essays on private law doctrines, remedies and methods is to celebrate and illustrate the contribution that both 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' methods of reasoning make to the development of private law. The contributors explore a variety of topical subjects, including judicial approaches to 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' methods; teaching ... Read more

$48.23 CAD

Inspired by recent debate, the purpose of this collection of essays on private law doctrines, remedies and methods is to celebrate and illustrate the contribution that both 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' methods of reasoning make to the development of private law. The contributors explore a variety of topical subjects, including judicial approaches to 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' methods; teaching
... Read more
Guilt by Accusation

The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

by Alan M. Dershowitz ...

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author proves—with irrefutable evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him.Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual ... Read more

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The #1 New York Times–bestselling author proves—with irrefutable evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him.Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual
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Robots y responsabilidad civil

by Silvia Díaz Alabart ...

Series series Derecho español contemporáneo
¿Qué dice la normativa acerca de la responsabilidad civil de los robots? Con la incorporación de la resolución del Parlamento Europeo de 16 de febrero de 2017, esta obra analiza la responsabilidad civil en la robótica. Se aborda por ejemplo la cuestión de si pueden los robots ser considerados productos defectuosos y por tanto someterse a la regulación vigente sobre éstos. O también, aspectos no ... Read more

$23.39 CAD

¿Qué dice la normativa acerca de la responsabilidad civil de los robots? Con la incorporación de la resolución del Parlamento Europeo de 16 de febrero de 2017, esta obra analiza la responsabilidad civil en la robótica. Se aborda por ejemplo la cuestión de si pueden los robots ser considerados productos defectuosos y por tanto someterse a la regulación vigente sobre éstos. O también, aspectos no
... Read more
Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

A Practical Guide for Plaintiff and Defense

Edited by Roxella T. Cavazos, Sandra R. McCandless ...

With the in-depth contributions of seasoned employment law practitioners from across the country, this important book is a best practices guide for attorneys who litigate cases on behalf of plaintiff/employees and defendants/employers. ... Read more

$168.47 CAD

With the in-depth contributions of seasoned employment law practitioners from across the country, this important book is a best practices guide for attorneys who litigate cases on behalf of plaintiff/employees and defendants/employers.
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The Surety's Indemnity Agreement

Law and Practice, Third Edition

Edited by Mike F. Pipkin, Marilyn Klinger, Tracey Lee Haley Haley ...

This is a comprehensive examination of the Surety's Indemnity Agreement, the first publication of its kind; providing a description of the Surety's Indemnity Agreement's provisions along with a discussion of the cases that have interpreted those provisions. In addition, the book provides practice pointers assisting practitioners in the enforcement of the surety's rights under the Indemnity ... Read more

$168.47 CAD

This is a comprehensive examination of the Surety's Indemnity Agreement, the first publication of its kind; providing a description of the Surety's Indemnity Agreement's provisions along with a discussion of the cases that have interpreted those provisions. In addition, the book provides practice pointers assisting practitioners in the enforcement of the surety's rights under the Indemnity
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The Class Action Fairness Act

Law and Strategy, Second Edition

Edited by Gregory C. Cook, Jocelyn D. Larkin ...

Table of Contents:Introduction and OverviewCAFA in the Congress: The Eight-Year StruggleWhether to Use CAFA Legislative HistoryIs this a Class Action?The Amount in Controversy Under CAFA: Have You Got What it Takes for Federal Court?NumerosityBasics of Minimal Diversity Under CAFANavigating CAFA’s ExceptionsHow CAFA Expands Federal Jurisdiction to Include Certain Mass Actions... ... Read more

$140.39 CAD

Table of Contents:Introduction and OverviewCAFA in the Congress: The Eight-Year StruggleWhether to Use CAFA Legislative HistoryIs this a Class Action?The Amount in Controversy Under CAFA: Have You Got What it Takes for Federal Court?NumerosityBasics of Minimal Diversity Under CAFANavigating CAFA’s ExceptionsHow CAFA Expands Federal Jurisdiction to Include Certain Mass Actions...
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Professional Responsibility in Litigation, Third Edition

by Douglas R. Richmond, Brian Shannon Faughnan, Michael L. Matula ...

Addressing the numerous and significant professional responsibility challenges in litigation, this compendium traces the ethical issues in the life of a lawsuit from start to finish. In discussing the various subjects, the authors broadly define “professional responsibility” to include not only legal ethics but also the related issues of sanctions and professional liability.This completely revised ... Read more

$168.47 CAD

Addressing the numerous and significant professional responsibility challenges in litigation, this compendium traces the ethical issues in the life of a lawsuit from start to finish. In discussing the various subjects, the authors broadly define “professional responsibility” to include not only legal ethics but also the related issues of sanctions and professional liability.This completely revised
... Read more
The Humanity of Private Law

Part I: Explanation

by Mr Nicholas McBride ...

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law. Making a decisive break from earlier views of private law, which saw private law as concerned with wealth-maximisation or preserving relationships of mutual independence between its subjects, the author argues that English private law's core concern is the flourishing of its subjects.THIS VOLUME- presents a ... Read more

$56.06 CAD

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law. Making a decisive break from earlier views of private law, which saw private law as concerned with wealth-maximisation or preserving relationships of mutual independence between its subjects, the author argues that English private law's core concern is the flourishing of its subjects.THIS VOLUME- presents a
... Read more

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