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The Profits of Charity

The Profits of Charity

Author: Kerry O'Halloran
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
ISBN: 9780199767717
Published In: November 2012
Format: Paperback , 1072 pages
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This up-to-date analysis of current changes in government and charity relationships across five countries provides a cross-cultural analysis and global view of charity law
The balanced assessment of charity law reviews, legislation, and jurisdictional differences gives readers a comprehensive understanding of the tensions at work
Considers overarching issues arising from charity law and social policy and helps readers understand the larger framework of charity law

The Profits of Charity examines the contemporary law governing the involvement of charity in commerce and explores the reasons why this involvement is dramatically changing. From a perspective familiar to charity lawyers, NGO managers, and scholars, Kerry O'Halloran identifies the concepts and the law underpinning charities and their profits by tracing legal developments in the field and identifying the resulting opportunities and challenges for the future. At a time when many leading nations are confronting economic recession, the threat of terrorism, and the retreat of the 'welfare state,' this book explores why governments are turning to charities in their quest to cultivate social capital, consolidate civil society, and promote civic engagement.

In The Profits of Charity, Professor O'Halloran undertakes a comparative analysis of the balance struck among government, charity, and commerce in five leading common law nations, including the United States, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, and Australia. He uses analysis of legislation, outcomes of charity law reviews, and recent case law to illustrate jurisdictional differences, and concludes with an assessment of the extent and significance of the recalibrated relationship and considers the overarching issues that arise between charity law and social policy.

Readership: Decision-makers, researchers, and leaders in government, government agencies, NGOs, charities, non-profit organizations; students and scholars of political science, the welfare state, sociology, law, and economics.

Preface
PART I: BACKGROUND
Chapter 1: The Common Law: Definitions, Concepts and Structures
Chapter 2: Trading and Profit
Chapter 3: Charity & the Not-for-Profit Sector
Chapter 4: Charity at the Margins
PART II: CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 5: England & Wales
Chapter 6: Europe: recent developments
Chapter 7: The US
Chapter 8: Canada
Chapter 9: Australia
Chapter 10: New Zealand
PART III: NEW DIRECTIONS
Chapter 11: Charity in the Marketplace
Chapter 12: New Regulatory Mechanisms
Chapter 13: New Legal Structures & New Frontiers
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Index

Kerry O'Halloran, Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Queensland University of Technology

Kerry O'Halloran is an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the Queensland University of Technology. He has served as Assistant Director (Research) at the Centre for Voluntary Action Studies at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and advised the Court Service (Northern Ireland) on their training program for lay magistrates as well as the Guide to Family Proceedings in Northern Ireland. He is also a consultant to Open University on the law relating to child care and social work. He has authored Charity Law, 2nd edition (2009), Charity and Social Inclusion (2006), Charity Law (2000), and numerous other publications.