The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies

Author: Peter Cane; Mark Tushnet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199248162
Published In: July 2005
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This innovative volume in the prestigious series of Oxford Handbooks provides a comprehensive overview of law and legal scholarship at the dawn of the 21st century. Through 43 essays by leading legal scholars based in USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Germany it will provide a varied and stimulating set of road maps to guide readers through the increasingly large and conceptually sophisticated body of legal scholarship.;Focussing mainly, though not exclusively, on scholarship in the English language and taking an international and comparative approach, the contributors to this Handbook offer original and interpretative accounts of the nature, themes and preoccupations of research and writing about law. They then go on to consider likely trends and developments in scholarship in the next decade or so.;The Handbook is arranged in seven Parts entitled 'Property and Obligations', 'Citizens and Government', 'Wealth Distribution and Welfare', 'Business and Commerce', 'Technology', 'Processes', and 'Research and Researchers'. It will provide everyone interested in scholarship about law with a widely accessible overview of the state and future direction of legal scholarship.

Contents:: PROPERTY AND OBLIGATIONS;
1. Contract;
2. Tort;
3. Restitution;
4. Property;
5. Trusts and Fiduciary Relationships; CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENT;
6. The Nature and Functions of the State;
7. Regulation;
8. Review of Executive Action;
9. Judicial Review of Legislation;
10. Citizenship;
11. Discrimination;
12. Crime;
13. Criminology;
14. The International Legal Order;
15. Human Rights;
16. The European Union;
17. Complex Polities; WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION AND WELFARE;
18. Taxation;
19. The Welfare State;
20. Families;
21. Medicine and Health;
22. Global Development and Impoverishment; BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
23. Corporations;
24. Competition;
25. Consumers;
26. Workers;
27. International Business and Commerce; TECHNOLOGY;
28. Intellectual Property;
29. The Media;
30. Life, Death and Reproduction;
31. The Environment; PROCESSES;
32. Legislation and Rule-Making;
33. Civil Process;
34. Criminal Process;
35. Lawyers and Legal Services;
36. International Process; RESEARCH AND RESEARCHERS;
37. The Internationalisation of Law and Legal Culture;
38. Historical Research in Law;
39. Empirical Research in Law;
40. Legal Education;
41. The Role of Academics in the Legal System;
42. A Century of Legal Studies;
43. Law as an Autonomous Discipline