Frontiers of Liability: Volume 1

Zusatztext In choosing the authors of the papers Professor Birks has created a very impressive list of judges! academics! and practising lawyers. The scholarship displayed by all the authors is of the highest calibre and those who have an interest in any of the topics discussed should regard the relevant papers as being essential reading. Klappentext This is the first volume of essays arising out of a series of high-level seminars held in All Souls College! Oxford during the Spring of 1993. The contributors! among them distinguished judges and academics! have produced essays of sparkling quality which will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the future direction of English law. Zusammenfassung The 'Frontiers of Liability' is the title of a series of high-level seminars held in All Souls College, Oxford during 1993 and 1994. Drawing together top academics, practitioners and judges, these seminars have sought to identify current trends in English law and have provided a forum for experts to give their assessment of how the law will develop in the future. The papers produced for the first 4 seminars and the comments made by the distinguished rapporteurs are reproduced in this volume. Anyone interested in the future of the law of restitution, the common law, judicial review, and the law relating to children will find these essays essential reading.Contributors: Charles Harpum, Sir Leonard Hoffman, Peter Birks, William Swadling, Sir Peter Millett, John Birds, W. R. Cornish, Sir Patrick Neill, Martin Loughlin, D. J. Galligan, Peter Cane, Andrew Bainham, Sheriff David Kelbie, J. M. Thomson, Stephen Cretney

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• Authors: P. B. H. Birks, Peter Birks, Peter. B. H. Birks
• Assisted by: P. B. H. Birks (Editor), Peter B. H. Birks (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.1994
• EAN: 9780198259022
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825902-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Frontiers of Liability
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, LAW / Essays, Literary essays, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions