Truts textbook

"Trusts Textbook" is an accessible text that sets out in clear and comprehensive terms the essential content of undergraduate degree courses in trusts. The nature and history of equity is also considered in detail and equitable remedies are discussed throughout the context of trusts law ...

Ancient Greek accentuation

synchronic patterns, frequency effects, and prehistory

The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. Bringing ...

Ancient literaty criticism

The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. Whilst there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the "Russell and ...

The modern Middle East

sourcebook for history

------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- "The Modern Middle East" is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists' and travellers' accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the ...

International financial economics

corporate decisions in global markets

Completely updated and revised, the second edition of "International Financial Economics: Corporate Decisions in Global Markets" applies the principles of financial economics to explain how international corporate finance decisions are made in the real world. Written from a practical, financial perspective versus one of pure ...

Gas prices in the UK

markets and insecurity of supply

Set in the context of the dramatic increases in the price of gas, which UK gas consumers have had to endure since 2003, this book explores how it is that UK gas industry liberalisation, which once promised ever lower prices, is now being undercut by ...

Displacement, asylum, migration

The Oxford amnesty lectures 2004

There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and ...

Law without justice

why criminal Law doesn't give people what they deserve

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 ...

How Law works

the machinery and impact of civil justice

This book is a collection of essays exploring aspects of the machinery of the civil justice system and its impact on society. It complements the author's previous book "Law, Government and Public Policy" (Melbourne, OUP, 1987), which looked mainly at the formulation and operation ...

Law and the brain

The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology, with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range of human activities - many historically the province of those in the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion, consciousness, music. Applying this new knowledge ...

The boundaries of EC competition Law

The scope of article 81

This monograph addresses two problems surrounding the interpretation and application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty - what is competition and how does Article 81 ensure that competition is protected. After over 40 years of application and a period of modernisation, decentralisation, and reflection, it ...

Stochastic dynamic macroeconomics

theory and empirical evidence

This is a book on stochastic dynamic macroeconomics from a Keynesian perpective. It shows that including Keynesian features in intertemporal models considerably contributes to resolve major puzzles arising in the context of the Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) model. It also demonstrates that including microeconomic intertemporal ...

The Oxford handbook of biblical studies

"The Oxford Handbooks" series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction ...

Family Law

This first edition of "Family Law" offers a fresh, clear and concise introduction to the subject. Designed to map directly onto mainstream university courses, the book provides an overview of the major issues and debates in family law in England and Wales. Current changes are ...

Restrospectivity and the rule of Law

Retrospective rule-making has few supporters and many opponents. Defenders of retrospective laws generally do so on the basis that they are a necessary evil in specific or limited circumstances, for example to close tax loopholes, to deal with terrorists or to prosecute fallen tyrants. Yet ...

Set-off Law and practice

an international handbook

Set-Off Law and Practice - An International Handbook" is an invaluable guide to the application and practice of the rules of set-off in over 30 jurisdictions, spanning Europe, Asia and the US. The use of set-off as a mechanism for risk reduction in cross-border financial contracts ...

The courtesan's arts

cross-cultural perspectives

Courtesans' arts have shaped cultures through art for millennia, even though their arts have been frequently lost. This collection explores courtesan cultures in ancient Greece, renaissance Italy, East Asia, and the Indian sub-continent, past and present, to show how the arts have figured in the ...

The handbook of reparations

This handbook is provides a broad range of essential information about past experiences, with massive reparations programs as well as normative guidance for future practice. It examines in detail reparations programs in different parts of the world; includes thematic papers on topics that frequently come ...

The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science" is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...

Technology transfer and the new EU competition rules

intellectual property licensing after Modernisation

The new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (in force from May 1, 2004) signals a profound change in the nature of the regulatory framework for technology licensing under EU competition law. This book examines the new Regulation in detail, placing it in the wider context ...

Financial services Law

"Financial Services Law" provides a long awaited detailed analysis of the regime under FSMA and subordinate legislation and the FSA handbook and rules. This book reflects the regime as it has matured and developed over the years since 2001. Many developments have occurred since the ...