The class action in Common Law legal system

a comparative perspective

Multi-party litigation is a world-wide legal process, and the class action device is one of its best-known manifestations. As a means of providing access to justice and achieving judicial economies, the class action is gaining increasing endorsement - particularly given the prevalence of mass consumerism of ...

The power to protect

trade, health and uncertainty in the WTO

This book examines the intersection of WTO trade liberalisation rules and domestic health protection, a subject that is of considerable interest to those concerned that the WTO impinges on national regulatory autonomy. In analysing the tension between health protection and trade liberalisation, the book focuses ...

Regional organisations and the development of collective security

beyond chapter VIII of the UN Charter

This book examines the development of collective security by regional organisations particularly after the Cold War. It analyses the various constitutional developments that have occurred within regional arrangements such as ECOWAS, African Union, SADC, OAS, and NATO and critically analyses how these developments have propelled ...

Definition in the criminal Law

In recent years, a number of key terms of the criminal law have seemed to defy definition. Scepticism over the possibility of defining basic concepts and identifying general principles has been voiced by both judges and academic commentators. This raises broad issues of theoretical interest ...

European union law for the twenty-first century

rethinking the new legal order.Vol.2: Internal market and free movement community policies

This book, to be published in two volumes, is based on the contributions made to the W.G. Hart Workshop 2003. It contains more than forty contributions by leading experts seeking to assess the state of development of EU law some fifty years after the ...

Trial on trial

Vol. 1: truth and due process

The trial is central to the institutional framework of criminal justice. It provides the procedural link between crime and punishment, and is the forum in which both guilt and innocence and sentence are determined. Its continuing significance is evidenced by the heated responses drawn by ...

National remedies before the court of justice

issues of harmonisation and differentiation

The Court of Justice has delivered an extensive body of caselaw concerning the obligation of domestic courts to provide effective judicial protection to claimants relying upon Community law rights # including such landmark judgments as Factortame and Francovich. This book offers a critical analysis of the ...

Partnership rights, free movement and EU Law

This book considers the case for modernising partnership rights in EC family reunification law. Existing Community law guarantees immigration rights only to spouses and yet there is a growing diversity of national laws on registered partnerships and recognition of cohabitation. The Community institutions currently framing ...

Regulation

legal form and economic theory

This is a reprint of Anthony Ogus' classic study of regulation, first published in the 1990s. It examines how, since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been fundamental changes in the relationship between the state and industry. With the aid of economic ...

Imaginary Boundaries of Justice

social justice across disciplines

It has become increasingly difficult to speak or even think social or legal justice in an age when words have left their moorings. Perhaps images are more stable than words; maybe images and imagery possess a certain viscosity,even a sensory quality, which prevents them ...

Global governance and the quest for justice

.Vol.IV: Human Rights

A short set of essays examining the impact of globalisation upon international human rights.

Enforcing international Law norms against terrorism

The scale and horror of recent terror attacks and the panic which ensued throughout the world has forced policy-makers and international lawyers to re-examine international legal tools available to enforce norms against terrorism. The magnitude of the attacks, the modalities of the operations, the profiles ...

Sovereignty in transition

Restorative justice & criminal justice

Competing or reconcilable paradigms?

Restorative Justice has emerged around the world as a potent challenge to traditional models of criminal justice, and restorative programmes, policies and legislative reforms are being implemented in many western nations. However, the underlying aims, values and limits of this new paradigm remain somewhat uncertain ...

Family Law

processes, practices, pressures

Free movements of persons within the European Community

Crooss-Border Accesss to Public Benefits.

From promise to contract

towards a liberal theory of contract

Comparative law in the courtroom and classroom

the story of the last thirty-five years

This book presents an original, deliberately controversial, and, at times, disturbing appraisal of the state of comparative law at the beginning of the 21st century. Looking at the weaknesses, strengths, and protagonists (most of whom were personally known to the author) of comparative law during ...

Working within two kinds of capitalism

corporate governance and employee stakeholding: US and EC perspectives

Women in the World's legal professions

Women lawyers,less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key ...

Lawyers and vampires

cultural histories of legal professions

Ujustified enrichment