Product Description: This examination of the role of litigation in addressing the problem of climate change focuses not only on how the massive and growing number of lawsuits influences regulation directly, but also on how the lawsuits shape corporate behaviour and public opinion...read more

Product Description: Litigation Past and Present takes a cross-disciplinary and comparative perspective on its subject. It examines actual patterns of litigation, both historical and contemporary, and looks at the many ways in which courts provide strategies for social change and social justice...read more

Product Description: In this lively, accessible book, barrister and free speech advocate Brian Walters describes eight cases where defamation laws—and even the Trade Practices Act—have been used in an attempt to silence critics of development. From the Victorian seaside town of Lorne to Hinchinbrook Island in North Queensland, the threat of legal action has created fear, and often silence, among conservationists and community activists...read more