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Common law, common values, common rights : essays on our common heritage / by distinguished British and American authors.

Title
Common law, common values, common rights : essays on our common heritage / by distinguished British and American authors.
Publication
[St. Paul, Minn.] : Published courtesy of West Group as a collaborative effort with the American Bar Association, c2000.

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  • West Group
  • American Bar Association
Description
xxiv, 382 p.; 27 cm.
Summary
The American Bar Association and its British counterparts, The General Council of the Bar and The Law Society, met to focus on the strengths and vibrancy of the common law system for the new century; and from that collaboration, these essays by a select committee explore facets of their common heritage. Cf. Preface, page vi-vii.
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Contents
Overview -- A common bond / The Right Honourable The Lord Steyn -- Our shared legal tradition / Justice Anthony M. Kennedy -- pt. 1. Introduction and short history / John Baker QC FBA, Lawrence M. Friedman -- pt. 2. The rule of law and democratic principles -- 1. Freedom of expression / Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, Daniel A. Farber -- 2. Equality / Jeffrey Jowell QC, Jesse H. Choper -- 3. Privacy and personal autonomy / Rabinder Singh, Kathleen M. Sullivan -- 4. Procedural fairness / Paul Craig FBA, Kenneth L. Karst -- 5. Human rights and international law and institutions / David Feldman, David Weissbrodt -- pt. 3. The common law tradition -- 6. The process of common law adjudication / Dame Mary Arden, Philip P. Frickey -- 7. Protection of property / Charles Harpum, Grant S. Nelson -- 8. Freedom of contract / Roger Brownsword, Barbara S. Black -- 9. Principles of tort recovery / Andrew Burrows, George C. Christie -- 10. Family law / The Right Honorable Lady Justice Hale DBE, Ira Mark Ellman -- 11. Judicial review and administrative action / Jack Beatson, Todd D. Rakoff -- pt. 4. Public welfare and private enterprise -- 12. Business enterprise and its public control / Tony Prosser, Melvin A. Eisenberg -- 13. Environmental law and regulation / Malcolm Grant, Joseph L. Sax -- 14. Workplace regulation and public benefits / Bob Hepple QC, Paul Weiler and David Westfall -- pt. 5. The justice system -- 15. The independence and ethics of judges and lawyers / Lord Goldsmith QC, Deborah L. Rhode -- 16. Criminal justice / Tony Smith, Albert W. Alschuler -- 17. Civil justice / The Right Honourable The Lord Woolf, Mary Kay Kane -- 18. Nonjudicial dipute resolution / Hazel Genn, Frank E.A. Sander -- pt. 6. The new millennium -- 19. The impact of technology / Richard Susskind OBE, Peter W. Martin -- 20. Law for a global society / Jeremy Carver CBE, John Edward Sexton -- 21. The future of the legal profession / Cyril Glasser CBE, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. -- 22. Public trust and confidence in the justice system / Joshua Rozenberg, Philip S. Anderson.
ISBN
0314250751
OCLC
  • 44929242
  • SCSB-10296829
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library