Books available for review – September 2008

Diplomatic Protection
Chittharanjan F. Amerasinghe
376 pages, £60.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921238-5
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199212385

EU Competition Enforcement And Human Rights
Andreangeli, Arianna
296 pages, £62.96 online price, ISBN 978 1 84720 632 9
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_DESCRIPTION.lasso?id=12953

The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization - Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd Edition
Van den Bossche, Peter
1100 pages, £48.00. ISBN: 9780521727594
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521727594

The Right to Self-Determination and Post-Colonial Governance: The Case of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
Hillebrink, Steven
400 pages, £65.00, ISBN: 9789067042796
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9789067042796

Beyond the UN Charter: Peace, Security and the Role of Justice
Ribbelink, Olivier M (ed.)
226 pages, £45.00, ISBN: 9789067042826
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9789067042826

The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton c.1176-1239
Series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Turner, Ralph V.
336 pages, £21.99, ISBN: 9780521072427
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521072427

Protecting the World's Children: Impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Diverse Legal Systems, UNICEF
Gooneskere, Savitri, Rios-Kohn, Rebeca, Garcia Mendez, Emilio,  Sardar Ali, Shaheen
286 pages, £14.99, ISBN: 9780521732918
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521732918

A Practical Approach to Criminal Procedure, Twelfth Edition
Sprack, John
642 pages, £39.95, ISBN: 978-0-19-953539-2
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199535392&view=lawview#authors

Fraud: Criminal Law and Procedure
Edited by David Ormerod and Clare Montgomery QC
1740 pages, Mainwork price: £195.00 (includes first year updating)
Service Price: £155.00 (approximately 2 releases per year)
ISBN: 978-0-19-923530-8
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199235308&view=lawview

Administrative Law
Craig, Paul
£37.50, ISBN: 9781847032836
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=229191&src=academicalerter0808

Constitutional & Administrative Law
Giussani, Elizabeth
£24.95, ISBN: 9781847032195
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=226133&src=academicalerter0808

Criminal Law & Practice
Forster, Stephen
£28.95, ISBN: 9781847034496
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=234284&src=academicalerter0808

Evidence- The Fundamentals
Huxley, Phil
£26.95, ISBN: 9781847034168
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=233910&src=academicalerter0808

EU Foreign Relations Law: Constitutional Fundamentals
Cremon, Marise and de Witte, Bruno (eds)
328 pages, £31.50, ISBN: 9781841137575
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137575

Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenge
Bianchi, Andrea and Keller, Alexis (eds)
438 pages, £49.50, ISBN: 9781841138183 
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138183

Human Rights Law in Perspective - no. 13
The Tension Between Group Rights and Human Rights A Multidisciplinary Approach
De Feyter, Koen and Pavlakos, George (eds)
318 pages, £45.00, ISBN: 9781841138299
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138299

Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges
Hunter, Rosemary (ed)
204 pages, £45.00, ISBN: 9781841138404
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138404

The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: Commentary and Documents
Brand, Ronald A and Herrup, Paul.
336 pages, £75.00, 9780521878661
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521878661

Environmental Liability and Ecological Damage In European Law
Hinteregger, Monika (ed.)
760 pages, £90.00, ISBN: 9780521889971
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521889971

Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes
Ginsburg, Tom and Moustafa, Tamir (eds)
392 pages, £45.00, ISBN: 9780521895903
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521895903

GATS and the Regulation of International Trade in Services
Panizzon, Marion, Pohl, Nicole and Sauve, Pierre (eds)
680 pages, £75.00, ISBN: 9780521896887
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521896887

Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Triffterer, Otto (ed)
1200 pages, £240.00, ISBN: 9781841138886
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138886

The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales
Andrew Boon and Jennifer Levin
454 pages, £32.00, ISBN:  9781841137087
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137087

The Shifting Allocation of Authority in International Law
Considering Sovereignty, Supremacy and Subsidiarity
429 pages, £60.00, ISBN: 9781841137971
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137971

The Structure of Property Law
McFarlane, Ben
965 pages, £28.00, ISBN: 9781841135595
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841135595

Transitional Justice from Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change
McEvoy, Kieran  and McGregor Lorna (eds)
274 pages, £30.00, ISBN: 9781841138213
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138213

Central Issues in Jurisprudence
Simmonds, Nigel
£19.95, ISBN: 9781847030085
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=176365&src=academicalerter0708

Gower & Davies: The Principles of Modern Company Law
Davies, Paul.
£35.00, ISBN: 9780421949003
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=154322&src=academicalerter0708

Davies on Contract
Upex, Robert, Bennett, Geoffrey,  Jason Chuah
£19.95, ISBN: 9781847034472.
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=234274&src=academicalerter0708

Understanding Environmental Law
Stallworthy, Mark Stallworthy
£17.95, ISBN: 9781847030306
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=178313&src=academicalerter0708

Tort
Giliker, Paula Beckwith, Silas.
£24.95, ISBN: 9780421949805
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=154428&src=academicalerter0708

Understanding EU Law
Szyszczak, Erika and Cygan, Adam
£16.95, ISBN: 9781847032799
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=228553&src=academicalerter0708

Contract Law
Duxbury, Robert
£24.95, ISBN: 9781847031273
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetail.aspx?prodid=219337&src=academicalerter0708

Law at the Vanishing Point: A Philosophical Analysis of International Law
244 pages, £60.00, ISBN: 978-0-7546-7251-7
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754672517

Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law, Fourteenth Edition
Fawcett, James,  Carruthers,Janeen, and  North, Peter.
1534 pages, £39.95, ISBN: 978-0-19-928438-2
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199284382

Strategic Legal Writing
Donald N. Zillman and Evan J. Roth
240 Pages, £16.99, ISBN-13: 9780521703437
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521703437

Biodiversity Conservation, Law and Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide
Series: IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Studies
612 Pages, £80.00, ISBN-13: 9780521885034
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521885034

The Nature and Authority of Precedent
Neil Duxbury
224 pages, £24.99, ISBN-13: 9780521713368
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521713368

War Crimes in Internal Armed Conflicts
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (No. 60)
Eve La Haye, International Committee of the Red Cross
444 pages, £65.00, ISBN-13: 9780521860734
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521860734

Redefining Sovereignty in International Economic Law
Edited by Wenhua Shan, Penelope Simons and Dalvinder Singh
516 pages, £60.00, ISBN 9781841137018 
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137018 

The Law of Confidentiality: A Restatement
Paul Stanley
198 pages, £35.00, ISBN 9781841138114  
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138114

The Use of Nuclear Weapons and the Protection of the Environment during International Armed Conflict
Erik Koppe
444 pages, £50.00, ISBN 9781841137452
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137452

Victims' Rights, Human Rights and Criminal Justice: Reconceiving the Role of Third Parties
Jonathan Doak
340 pages, £30.00, ISBN 9781841136035 
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841136035

Fixing Failed States
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
272 pages, £13.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-534269-7
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780195342697

Contract Damages: Domestic and International Perspectives
Saidov Djakhongir and Cunnington Ralph (eds)
532 pages, £85.00, ISBN: 9781841137414
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?sc=1-84113-741-3

Euthanasia and Law in Europe
John Griffiths & Heleen Weyers, Maurice Adams
648 pages, £60.00, ISBN 9781841137001
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?sc=1-84113-700-6

Hearsay Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
JR Spencer
376 pages, £30.00, ISBN 9781841138121  
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?sc=1-84113-812-6

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract
Edited by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell
394 pages, £50.00, ISBN  9781841137599
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?sc=1-84113-759-6

International Investment Law: Reconciling Policy and Principle
Surya P Subedi
244 pages, £35.00, ISBN 9781841138794 
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138794

An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts
Robert Kolb and Richard Hyde
310 pages, £30.00, ISBN 9781841137995   
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137995

Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide
Louise Mallinder
598 pages, £60.00, ISBN 9781841137711
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137711

The Iraq War and International Law
Edited by Phil Shiner and Andrew Williams
358 pages, £30.00, ISBN 9781841136691
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841136691

Regulating Policing; The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Past, Present and Future
Edited by Ed Cape and Richard Young
262 pages, £30.00, ISBN 9781841138619 
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138619

Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study
Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon
324 pages, £30.00, ISBN 9781841134178  
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841134178

Making Rights Real: The Human Rights Act in its First Decade
Ian Leigh and Roger Masterman
310 pages, £40.00, ISBN 9781841133539   
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841133539

The Law of Medical Negligence in England and Germany: A Comparative Analysis
Marc Stauch
182 pages, £45.00, ISNB 9781841136462   
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841136462

Shakespeare and the Law
Edited by Paul Raffield and Gary Watt
312 pages, £45.00, ISBN 9781841138251   
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138251

Making the Law Explicit: The Normativity of Legal Argumentation
Matthias Klatt
256 pages, £45.00, ISBN 9781841134918   
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841134918 

The Law of Damages in International Sales: The CISG and other International Instruments
Djakhongir Saidov
322 pages, £75.00, ISBN 9781841137421
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841137421

 

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