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OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD Why are the best words short and old? Why are full stops a writer's best friend? How can we simplify, then exaggerate...

This is an innovative and engaging account of the debates underpinning criminal law in England and Wales and how they have shaped legal events and ...

Review At last, a book on correct writing that is genuinely amusing - and not just for language nerds ... Informative and hugely entertaining,...

* Summarises the basic facts and key principles of the important cases in tort law, in clear, straightforward language * Organised by topic areas t...

Review time spent on Law in a Time of Crisis is time spent in the company of a brilliant mind considering interesting things ... any person of bro...

Nutcases are revision aids that approach case law in the acclaimed Nutshells style. They present the basic facts and key principles of the importan...

Archbold Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice is aimed at solicitors and key government institutions within the criminal justice sector. The work ...

This volume assembles and presents a database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offered the first comprehensive cr...

Whether you are a beginner or an accomplished professional, whether your field is fiction, nonfiction or journalism, Sol Stein's Solutions for Writ...

Environmental protection and resource conservation depend on the imposition of property rights (broadly defined) because in the absence of some pro...

The focus of Proprietary Claims and Insolvency is the use of the trust and analogous devices by companies and individuals to gain priority over oth...

* Summarises the basic facts and key principles of the important cases in contract law, in clear, straightforward language * Organised by topic are...

The first volume of the International Environmental Law Reports focuses on early decisions. It includes all the well known, and some lesser known, ...

This book serves as a compact introduction to the economic analysis of law and organization. At the same time it covers a broad spectrum of issues....

The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in di...

Decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgements of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public internationa...

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions o...

Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Ev...

Originally published in 2006, this book reveals the many harms which flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalising world. The...

In 1980, the United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) came into being as an attempt to create a uniform commercial sale...

This book was first published in 2006. Many common law countries inherited British income tax rules. Whether the inheritance was direct or indirect...

This 2007 book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development conti...

This is the first law book devoted entirely to the subject of truth commissions. The book sets forth standards of procedural fairness aimed at prot...

Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can ...

This book contains perspectives of world-renowned scholars from the fields of law, economics, and political science about the relationship between ...

The holy sites in Jerusalem exist as objects of international veneration and sites of nationalist contest. They stand at the heart of the Israeli-P...

This 2006 book provides a fully annotated discussion of the ethical universe surrounding state-mandated and private legal disputes involving the cu...

This 2007 book assists the practitioner seeking to enforce a foreign judgment in the United States or a US-rendered judgment abroad in navigating t...

There is a silent epidemic of childhood sexual abuse in the United States and a legal system that is not effectively protecting children from preda...

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions o...

From attacks on oil infrastructure in post-war reconstruction Iraq to the laying of gas pipelines in the Amazon Rainforest through indigenous commu...

Nutcases provide in-depth case analysis of the facts, principles and decision of the most important cases in an area of law. They include a number ...