How to Do Things With Rules

Informationen zum Autor William Twining is Quain Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at University College London and a regular Visiting Professor at the University of Miami Law School. His recent works include General Jurisprudence and Analysis of Evidence (with Anderson and Schum), both of which are closely related to this book. David Miers is Professor of Law at Cardiff. He is the author of Regulating Commercial Gambling and many publications on legislation. He has been Chairman of the Study of Parliament Group and a regular adviser on policy relating to gambling, crime victim compensation, and legislative reform. Klappentext New to English law? Need to know how rules are interpreted and applied? This classic textbook, fully updated, shows how. Zusammenfassung New to English law? Need to know how rules are made! interpreted and applied? This classic textbook! fully updated! shows how. It simplifies legal method by combining vivid examples with an account of rules in general: the who! what! why and how of interpretation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. Some food for thought; Part II. Reading, Using and Interpreting Rules in General: 2. Problems and mischiefs; 3. Of rules in general; 4. Interpretation and application; 5. Imperfect rules; Part III. Reading Law: Reading, Using and Interpreting Legislation and Cases: 6. Routine and problematic readings; 7. Legislation; 8. Interpreting legislation; 9. Reading cases; 10. The European dimension; 11. Rules, reasoning and interpretation; Part IV: Questions and exercises.

Product details

• Authors: David Miers, Miers David, William Twining, William Miers Twining
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2010
• EAN: 9780521195492
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19549-2
• No. of pages: 452
• Series: Law in Context; Law in Context
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; LAW / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, EU (European Union), Legal skills & practice, Legal skills and practice, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law