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1	Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law more books like this by Brian Z Tamanaha, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist The contemporary U.S. legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlying ... see all copies from $23.66! new only from $24.21! \| SVS
2	Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination more books like this by Ian Ward, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare's plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book ... see all copies from $35.68! new only from $35.78!
3	General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective more books like this by William Twining add to wishlist This book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of academic law and legal theory. Its central thesis is that most processes of so-called 'globalisation' take place at sub-global levels and that a healthy ... see all copies from $41.37! new only from $53.54! \| SVS
4	Choice and the Legal Order: Rising Above Politics more books like this by Norman Lewis, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist Explores the legal foundations of contemporary politics and morality, revealing how commitment to democratic principles has implications for law in all its manifestations - academic, professional and political. see all copies from $8.70! new only from $12.98! \| first editions
5	How to Do Things with Rules: A Primer of Interpretation more books like this by William Twining, David Miers add to wishlist Twining and Miers examines the basic intellectual skills law students need, in particular those concerning the handling of rules. Designed to cater for the needs of a variety of groups, including 'pre-law', first year LLB students reading courses in legal method, and those studying jurisprudence options with an interpretation/legal reasoning basis ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $34.68! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Trusts Law: Text and Materials more books like this by Graham Moffat, Gerry Bean, Rebecca Probert add to wishlist With its unique contextual emphasis and authoritative commentary, Trusts Law: Text and Materials is a book that no serious undergraduate on trust law courses can afford to be without. The book is divided into four main parts: trusts and the preservation of family wealth; trusts and family breakdown; trusts and commerce; and trusts and non-profit ... see all copies from $5.71! new only from $29.99!
7	Rethinking Evidence: Exploratory Essays more books like this by William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist The Law of Evidence has traditionally been perceived as a dry, highly technical, and mysterious subject. This book argues that problems of evidence in law are closely related to the handling of evidence in other kinds of practical decision-making and other academic disciplines, that it is closely related to common sense and that it is an ... see all copies from $29.64! new only from $56.39! \| first editions
8	Law and Parenthood more books like this by Chris Barton, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist In recent years, child law has increased in prominence, not only in the public eye and the courts, but also as a study option as a result of modularisation. This book discusses the substantive law, the procedural law, and all the main issues which are commonly raised in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the subject. With the ... see all copies from $16.31! new only from $45.46!
9	Product Liability more books like this by Jane Stapleton, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist Product liability is a developing area of the law that was changed radically by Part 1 of the 'Consumer Protection Act 1987', which in turn implemented an EC Directive on the subject. This student text offers a detailed, contextual and authoritative account of the origins, theoretical basis and practical workings of product liability law. see all copies from $29.49! new only from $57.82!
10	Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy more books like this by Dr. Nicola Glover-Thomas, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist The first title from the 'Law in Context Series' to fully consider the issues surrounding this subject, this text provides a critical and in-depth analysis of the current regime and the tensions within it by examining the development of contemporary mental health law in its social and political context. Dr Glover-Thomas charts the origins of ... see all copies from $29.99! new only from $29.99!
11	Ombudsmen: Public Services and Administrative Justice more books like this by Mary Seneviratne, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist The book is intended to provide an accessible description and evaluation of the UK public sector ombudsman system, focussing on the Parliamentary, Health Service and Local Government ombudsmen in England. It deals with the public sector ombudsmen in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in particular the new arrangements which have occurred as a ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $43.90!
12	Evidence and Proof more books like this by William Twining, Alex Stein add to wishlist This collection of articles on matters of evidence and proof in law covers topics such as: logic and proof; law, fact and value; the law of evidence - its nature and scope; basic concepts of the law of evidence; burdens of proof and presumptions; and the protection of the accused. see all copies from $100.00! new only from $137.65!
13	Seeking Asylum in the UK: Problems and Prospects more books like this by Colin Harvey, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist This title examines in detail the emergence and content of the increasingly comprehensive legal regime in the UK addressing refugees and asylum seekers. Since the early 1990s asylum law has steadily evolved into what is now a clearly demarcated area of law and administration. This book explores the reasons behind this development and analyses in a ... see all copies from $3.17! new only from $3.17!
14 view cover	Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation more books like this by Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Boaventura De Sousa Santos, William Twining (Editor) add to wishlist There are those who believe that modern society's reliance upon law, politics and science to both regulate and emancipate society has reached a crisis point and can no longer provide answers to current social problems. Toward a New Legal Common Sense engages in a series of sociological analyses of law in order to illustrate the need for a profound ... see all copies from $57.80! new only from $59.74!
15 view cover	Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities more books like this by Michael Likosky (Editor), William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist This work comprises 24 linked essays by leading transatlantic scholars in international law and the social sciences examining the sociolegal aspects of multi-jurisdictional legal techniques and trans-jurisdictional social phenomena. The contributors bring a range of disciplinary expertises including anthropology, economics, law and sociology to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $63.62!
16 view cover	Dispute Processes: Adr and the Primary Forms of Decision-Making more books like this by Michael Palmer, Simon Roberts, William Twining (Editor) add to wishlist This wide-ranging study considers the primary forms of decision-making - negotiation, mediation, and umpiring - in the context of rapidly changing discourses and practices of civil justice across many jurisdictions. Much contemporary discussion in this field, and associated projects of institutional design, are taking place under the wide ranging ... see all copies from $16.78! new only from $16.78! \| SVS
17 view cover	Who Believes in Human Rights?: Reflections on the European Convention more books like this by Marie-Benedicte Dembour, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist Many people believe passionately in human rights. Others - Bentham, Marx, cultural relativists and some feminists amongst them - dismiss the concept of human rights as practically and conceptually inadequate. This book reviews these classical critiques and shows how their insights are reflected in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights ... see all copies from $49.69! new only from $53.90!
18 view cover	European Public Law more books like this by Patrick Birkinshaw, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist European integration has been most successful at a legal level and European influences have left an indelible mark on English Public Law. These influences must be understood by students and practitioners if they are to understand our public law and its continuing development. This new book aims to cover the debate surrounding the influence of ... see all copies from $45.27! new only from $68.60!
19 view cover	Rethinking Corporate Crime more books like this by James Gobert, Maurice Punch, William Twining (Editor) add to wishlist This unique work provides a detailed critique of the current criminal law system as it applies to corporate wrongdoing. It assesses the potential for the legal control of corporate criminality as informed by insights gleaned from an understanding of why such crimes occur. The authors also advance the theory that such crimes should be viewed as a ... see all copies from $43.91! new only from $43.91!
20 view cover	Cranston's Consumers and the Law more books like this by Julia Black, Dr. Colin Scott, William Twining (Editor) add to wishlist The third edition of Cranston's Consumers and the Law brings the reader fully up to date with developments in consumer law and includes important new material on utilities and financial services regulation. An internet home page has also been established for readers of this book. The home page has two main purposes. First, it provides links to ... see all copies from $37.85! new only from $47.84!
21 view cover	Common Values and the Public-Private Divide more books like this by Dawn Oliver, William Twining (Editor), Christopher McCrudden (Editor) add to wishlist This text is a critical study of the public/private law divide in the common law tradition. Professor Oliver's starting point is that special substantive duties of legality, fairness and rationality are imposed by the common law on bodies discharging public functions, but not always on bodies discharging what are considered 'private' functions. ... see all copies from $39.05! new only from $39.05!
22 view cover	Law in Context more books like this by William Twining add to wishlist The central theme of Twining's book is that law is a marvellous subject of study, but to do justice to its potential requires an enlargement of vision, multiple perspectives, and a radical reappraisal of the role, culture, and practices of law schools. Treating theory, education, scholarship, publishing, and professional practice as complementary ... see all copies from $78.89! new only from $106.82! \| SVS
23 view cover	Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement more books like this by William Twining add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! first editions
24	Theories of Evidence: Bentham and Wigmore more books like this by William Twining add to wishlist see all copies from $21.70! first editions
25 view cover	Bentham: Selected Writings of John Dinwiddy more books like this by William Twining (Editor) add to wishlist Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, made a powerful impact on several major areas of thought and policy, yet his ideas have always been prone to misunderstanding. Dinwiddy introduces Bentham's ideas, examining the various components of his philosophy. see all copies from $51.00! new only from $51.00!

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