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Author:   Peter Cane ,  Mark Tushnet
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 6.10cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.903kg
ISBN:  

9780199248162

ISBN 10:   0199248168
Pages:   1094
Publication Date:   01 October 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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