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Foundations of South African Law: Critical Issues for Law Students
Peggy Maisel and Lesley Greenbaum
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Statutory Supplements to Copyright in a Global Information Economy
Maureen A. O'Rourke, Julie E. Cohen, Lydia Pallas Loren, and Ruth L. Okediji
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The Regulation of Money Managers: Mutual Funds and Advisers, 2nd ed.
Tamar Frankel and Ann Taylor Schwing
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Federal Administrative Law, 2nd ed.
Gary S. Lawson
This book deliberately concentrates on federal administrative law, to the near total exclusion of state administrative law. This book also focuses on the formal legal doctrines that establish the framework within which policy makers, lobbyists, and lawyers can ply their trades. In addition, this book strongly emphasizes the four fundamental branches of administrative law: the constitutional foundations of the administrative state, the constitutional law and statutory law governing agency rule making and adjudicatory procedures, and the law governing the timing and availability of judicial review.
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Introduction to Law and Legal Skills
Peggy Maisel and Lesley Greenbaum
This book represents the culmination of three years of work developing an innovative first year law course for LLB students and non-law legal studies students at the University of Natal in Durban.
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Disability in Jewish Law
Tzvi Marx and Neil S. Hecht
In recent decades, record numbers of Jews are taking a newfound interest in their legal heritage - the Bible and the Talmud, the law codes and the rabbinical responsa literature. In the course of this encounter, they may be interested in how these sources relate to the issue of disability, and the degree to which halakhic attitudes to disability are in harmony with contemporary sensibilities. For example, can the blind or those in wheelchairs serve as prayer leaders? Need the mentally incompetent observe any ritual law? Is institutionalization in a special-education facility where Jewish dietary laws are not observed permitted if it will enhance a child's functioning? And how are we to interpret teachings that seem inconsonant with current sensibilities?
Disability in Jewish Law answers the pressing need for insight into the position of Jewish law with respect to the rights and status of those with physical and mental impairments, and the corresponding duties of the non-disabled. -
Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination and Employment Law
Samuel Estreicher and Michael C. Harper
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Statutory Supplement to Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination and Employment Law
Samuel Estreicher and Michael C. Harper
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International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration, 3rd ed.
William W. Park, W. Laurence Craig, and Jan Paulsson
This hands-on guide, published in cooperation with the International Chamber of Commerce, covers every aspect of ICC arbitration. The authors provide a detailed description of the arbitral process from the formation of the agreement to arbitrate to the appeal of the enforcement. The volume discusses in detail the important rulings of the ICC and their potential impact on future awards. The book provides a critical evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages at every step in the arbitral process including practical facts, figures, pragmatic suggestions and warnings. Appendices include a table of cases, table of arbitral awards, table of authorities, table of articles on the 1998 ICC Arbitration Rules, and a comprehensive index. This book is essential to anyone who is involved in ICC arbitration, or who may have to consider the use of an ICC arbitration clause.
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Safety Management: the Challenge of Change
Michael S. Baram and Andrew R. Hale
Not only is technology going through its revolutions faster, but the institutions and organisations which exploit that technology are also in the process of almost constant reshaping. This accelerating change is a double-edged sword for safety. On the one hand, it offers the opportunity for improvement, but on the other it threatens the tried and trusted measures which have produced high safety levels in the past. Trial and error as a learning method is not acceptable in high risk technologies. We must not only get things right first time, but adapt the management of safety to the dynamic of constant change. This book explores that dilemma by studying how organisations manage safety and what is crucial for a good safety management system, how to harness change directly to safety improvement and how to adapt safety management systems to change imposed from the outside.
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Administrative Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd ed.
Jack M. Beermann, Ronald A. Cass, and Colin S. Diver
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Authority, Process and Method: Studies in Jewish Law
Hanina Ben-Menahem and Neil S. Hecht
The articles in this volume were originally published in Hebrew in Shenaton Hamishpat Haivri and address Jewish law, both in its own context and in the context of contemporary jurisprudence. Contributions range from discussion of the rabbincal court to the doctrine of binding precedent, and from the basis of judicial authority to the legal defence of ignorance of the law.
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Hurdles and Levers: A Comparative US-UK Study of Guidelines
Patricia Day, Rudolf Klein, and Frances H. Miller
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Annotated Guide to the 1998 ICC Arbitration Rules
William W. Park, W. Laurence Craig, and Jan Paulsson
This indispensable volume provides a complete and authoritative discussion of the ICC rules and their application. Organized by arbitration rules, it contains an article-by-article analysis of the rules, including a comparison with the text of the relevant section of the 1975 rules, along with comprehensive indexes for tracking the rules of the court, and advice for arbitrators. Each annotation contains an explanation of the rationale that drove the revision or incorporation, as well as the expected effect on ICC arbitration practice. Where the rules are influenced by other established arbitration rules, appropriate cross-references appear.
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· Overview of the 1998 rules
· Annotated text with commentary
· Arbitral tribunal and proceedings
· Awards
· Costs
· Conversion tables
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Mill's Utilitarianism: Critical Essays
David B. Lyons
John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism continues to serve as a rich source of moral and theoretical insight. This collection of articles by top scholars offers fresh interpretations of Mill's ideas about happiness, moral obligation, justice, and rights. Applying contemporary philosophical insights, they challenge the conventional readings of Mill, and, in the process, contribute to a deeper understanding of utilitarian theory as well as the complexity of moral life.
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An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law
Neil S. Hecht
Jewish law has a history stretching from the early period to the modern State of Israel, encompassing: the Talmud, Geonic, and later codifications; the Spanish Golden Age; medieval and modern response; the Holocaust; and modern reforms. Fifteen distinct periods are separately studied in this volume, each one by a leading specialist, and the emphasis throughout is on the development of the institutions and sources of the law, providing teachers with the essential background material from which a variety of sources, from many different perspectives, may be taught. Most of the chapters are written to a common plan, with treatment of the political background of the period and the nature of Jewish judicial autonomy, the character (literary and legal) of the sources, the legal practice of the period, its principal authorities, and examples of characteristic features of the substantive law (especially in family law).
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A Guide to America's Sex Laws
Katharine B. Silbaugh and Richard A. Posner
A Guide to America's Sex Laws is the first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws. It summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity, revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities, and irrationalities, and providing an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation. Judge Richard A. Posner and Katharine B. Silbaugh cover broadly defined areas of regulation, providing background and definitions and placing the laws in their historical and constitutional context. From Alabama to Wyoming, this informative and fascinating reference book will be an essential resource.
"It takes only a few minutes with A Guide to [America's] Sex to realize that the nation's laws governing what two consenting adults can do with one another are an odd jumble."—Eric Fidler, San Diego Commerce
"Especially noteworthy is how laws governing various sexual activities vary from state to state."—Library Journal
"Fascinating and often surprising facts are concisely documented and conveniently organized in A Guide."—Carlin Meyer, New York Law Journal -
International Forum Selection
William W. Park
This book will compare arbitration agreements with forum selection clauses that designate courts, contrasting the relative costs and benefits of each form of dispute resolution. Focus will be on the way that international business lawyers can enhance the reliability of their jurisdiction selection clauses and the enforcement of the resulting awards and judgments.
The scope of the work will included analysis of national statutes, international treaties, court decisions and choice-of-law questions related to forum selection.
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Administrative Law: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed.
Jack M. Beermann, Ronald A. Cass, and Colin S. Diver
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1994 Supplement to Cases and Materials on the Law Governing the Employment Relationship, 2nd ed.
Samuel Estreicher and Michael C. Harper
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Using Civil Remedies for Criminal Behavior: Rationale, Case Studies, and Constitutional Issues
Peter Finn and Maria O'Brien
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Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory
David B. Lyons
This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central set of essays develops new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They Mill's analysis of moral concepts promises to accommodate the argumentative force of rights, and also provide a significant new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled. Utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
Books written, edited, and contributed to by Boston University School of Law faculty members.
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