Product Description: This wide-ranging comparative account of the legal regimes for controlling administrative power in England, the USA and Australia argues that differences and similarities between control regimes may be partly explained by the constitutional structures of the systems of government in which they are embedded...read more

Product Description: This book provides a clear and concise account of the main principles of administrative law. More than that, it sets those principles in historical, comparative and constitutional perspective. Principles of Administrative Law guides the reader through the complexities of the current law and provides an account of how it developed and where it might go in the years to come...read more

Product Description: Many administrative law principles are abstract and difficult to apply. The readings in this collection are longer than extracts in a typical cases and material volume. This will help students develop legal reasoning skills and gain a better understanding of how the principles of administrative law are applied and elaborated in specific and factual contexts...read more

Contains in depth discussion of the issues of this large area of the law. Explores the motivations and complexities of tort law from a distinctively Australian perspective.

Product Description: Administrative Law provides a sophisticated but highly accessible account of a complex area of law of great contemporary relevance and increasing importance.Written in a clear and flowing style, the text has been radically reorganized and extensively rewritten to present administrative law as a framework for public administration...read more

Product Description: The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but also as social practices of political, economic and ethical significance, empirical legal researchers have used quantitative and qualitative methods to illuminate many aspects of law's meaning, operation and impact...read more

Product Description: Among the many constitutional developments of the past century or so, one of the most significant has been the creation and proliferation of institutions that perform functions similar to those performed by courts, but which are considered to be, and in some ways are, different and distinct from courts as traditionally conceived...read more

Product Description: Exploring the role of tort law in Australia's personal injuries system, the first two lectures in this series examine the political and economic significance of personal injury law while the third lecture discusses the possible future role of tort law as a way of dealing with the problem of personal injury compensation...read more

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law has been recognised as a classic treatment of law relating to compensation for personal injuries. It discusses not only relevant legal rules, but also social, political and economic issues underlying the law, the practical operation of the tort system, and the options for change. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with many sections such as those on causation and the financing of tort claims being substantially rewritten to include major changes: the introduction of no-win-no-fee conditional fee arrangements and the radical reform of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.

This is the third edition of Peter Cane's popular and accessible introduction to UK Administrative Law. This edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of developments during the past four years.

Product Description: Lawyers who write about responsibility focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law. Philosophers tend to treat responsibility as a moral concept, and either ignore the law or consider legal responsibility to be a more or less distorted reflection of its moral counterpart...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume, written by eight of the world's leading legal theorists and philosophers, began life as papers presented at seminars (held in Canberra and New York) devoted to the ideas of Tony Honoré, who is one of the most important legal thinkers of his generation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law has been recognised as a classic treatment of law relating to compensation for personal injuries. It discusses not only relevant legal rules, but also social, political and economic issues underlying the law, the practical operation of the tort system, and the options for change...read more

Product Description: The late John Fleming, emeritus Professor of Law in the University of California at Berkeley, was the pre-eminent torts lawyer of the age; his Law of Torts has influenced generations of students and scholars, and remains a classic of legal literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A new conceptual framework for the law of tort, and private law in general, from one of the world's leading academic lawyers. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Law and Uncertainty: Risks and Legal Processes examines the role of the law and legal institutions in coping with the risks and uncertainties that pervade our lives. It examines key concerns, such as how issues relating to risks can be dealt with by means of legal processes, and how risks can be controlled through different legal formulations and techniques...read more

Product Description: This is a book about the way in which the law of tort protects financial assets such as money, property and contracts. It is not a conventional textbook, either in content or arrangement, and the analysis goes well beyond standard undergraduate texts...read more