Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
by Dr John Charney
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book explores the relationship between truth and freedom in the free press. It argues that the relationship is problematic because the free press implies a competition between plural ideas, whereas truth is univocal. Based on this tension the book claims that the idea of a free press is premised...
Interpreting TRIPS
Globalisation of Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has become a global issue. The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement outlines the minimum standards for IPR protection for WTO members and offers a global regime for IPR protection. However, the benefits of TRIPS are more...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide range of different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work. The original case studies cover...
21st Century Solicitor
How to Make a Real Impact as a Junior Commercial Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
This might be news: success as a twenty-first century solicitor is not dependent on your technical aptitude alone. Sorry.
As well as the basic requirements of understanding and applying the law superbly, you are also now expected to master a whole suite of so-called 'soft skills' -- communicating...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This collection of essays, written by leading commentators from across the common law world, examines a range of topics concerning Equity and Trusts in the commercial context. The essays investigate the way in which doctrines derived from the equitable jurisdiction interact with and shape various...
Fiduciary Loyalty
Protecting the Due Performance of Non-Fiduciary Duties
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Winner of the second SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2010.
Fiduciary Loyalty presents a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of fiduciary duties. The concept of loyalty, which lies at the heart of fiduciary doctrine, is a form of protection which is designed...
F.A. Mann
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Francis (FA) Mann was among the most brilliant of an exceptional group of German-Jewish émigrés who came to Britain in the 1930s to escape persecution in Hitler's Germany. Born and educated in Germany, he was in time to become one of Britain's most distinguished international lawyers; a scholar...
Understanding Legislation
A Practical Guide to Statutory Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
“[This book] will be of great value to practitioners, students, academics and judges - whatever their level of experience. […] The trouble for many legal practitioners, and indeed for many legal book writers, can be a failure to see the wood for the trees, and that is a particular risk when it...
by Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Professor Tamara Hervey, Professor Robert Cryer
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Law research students often begin their PhDs without having an awareness of methodology, or the opportunity to think about the practice of research and its theoretical implications. Law Schools are, however, increasingly alive to the need to provide training in research methods to their students....
IP and Other Things
A Collection of Essays and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The Rt Hon Professor Sir Robin Jacob has been variously a leading member of the Intellectual Property Bar, a High Court judge and, as Lord Justice Jacob, a judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. His primary area of expertise is intellectual property (IP) rights. He chose to leave the Court...
In-House Lawyers' Ethics
Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
This book provides an empirically grounded, in-depth investigation of the ethical dimensions to in-house practice and how legal risk is defined and managed by in-house lawyers and others. The growing significance and status of the role of General Counsel has been accompanied by growth in legal risk...
Religion, Race, Rights
Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and...
Humiliation in International Relations
A Pathology of Contemporary International Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In international relations (IR), some states often deny the legal status of others, stigmatising their practices or even their culture. Such acts of deliberate humiliation at the diplomatic level are common occurrences in modern diplomacy. In the period following the breakup of the famous 'Concert...
Essays on the History of Parliamentary Procedure
In Honour of Thomas Erskine May
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
8 February 2015 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Erskine May. May is the most famous of the fifty holders of the office of Clerk of the House of Commons. His continued renown arises from his Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament, first published...