Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
The Idea of a Pure Theory of Law
An Interpretation and Defence
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Most contemporary legal philosophers tend to take force to be an accessory to the law. According to this prevalent view the law primarily consists of a series of demands made on us; force, conversely, comes into play only when these demands fail to be satisfied. This book claims that this model should...
Modern Jurisprudence
A Philosophical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book provides a concise and accessible guide to modern jurisprudence, offering an examination of the major theories and systematic discussion of themes such as legality and justice. It gives readers a better understanding of the rival viewpoints by exploring the historical developments which...
Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Theoretical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The book consists of the keynote papers delivered at the 2012 WG Hart Workshop on Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice organised by the Queen Mary Criminal Justice Centre. The volume addresses, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the multifarious relationship between globalisation on...
by Professor Michael Bohlander
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The book aims to outlinie the fundamental aspects of the German approach to criminal procedure; it is meant as a companion volume to the author's earlier publications, 'The German Criminal Code - A Modern English Translation', and 'Principles of German Criminal Law', also with Hart. In appropriate...
by Professor Gordon Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This is the second edition of Hart's leading book on the principle and practice of judicial review in Northern Ireland. Providing a fully updated account of the ever-burgeoning body of case law, it divides into eight chapters that consider the purposes of judicial review; the nature of the public-private...
Unity in Adversity
EU Citizenship, Social Justice and the Cautionary Tale of the UK
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
'In this important contribution to the analysis and construction of European Union citizenship, Charlotte O'Brien provides her characteristic blend of rigorous legal scholarship and compelling social vision. She identifies challenging questions about the relationship between justice and vulnerability...
by Emmanuel Voyiakis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Some say that private law ought to correct wrongs or to protect rights. Others say that private law ought to maximise social welfare or to minimise social cost.
In this book, Emmanuel Voyiakis claims that private law ought to make our responsibilities to others depend on the opportunities we have...
Living Through the Pain
The Lonely Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Imagine waking up to your worst nightmare. In 1976, Cathy Kurtz, at the tender age of sixteen, lost her father, mother, oldest brother, and sister-in-law in a private plane crash. In 1989 she lost her surviving brother to AIDS. As a single mother, Cathy struggled to take care of her son while still...
Carter’s Breach of Contract
(2nd Hart Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Carter's Breach of Contract is well established as the leading text on the subject in the Commonwealth, having been cited regularly and with approval by the courts in a number of jurisdictions. The work is comprehensive in relation to both English and Australian law. Moreover, by drawing on decisions...
Modern Jurisprudence
A Philosophical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The second edition of this book provides a concise and accessible guide to modern jurisprudence, offering an examination of the major theories as well as highlighting principal themes such as legality and justice. Together with new material, the second edition explores the historical developments...
Film and the Law
The Cinema of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'founding text', this text is a second, heavily revised and improved edition of the original Film and the Law (Cavendish Publishing, 2001). The book is distinctive in a number of ways: it is unique as a sustained book-length...
by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This collection explores developments in the regulation of legal services by examining the control of the markets in several key countries and in jurisdictions within countries. The contributions consider emerging adjustments in regulatory structures and methods; examine the continuing role, if any,...
Digital Copyright
Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
The first edition of this book in 2002 was the first UK text to examine digital copyright together with related areas such as performers' rights, moral rights, database rights and competition law as a subject in its own right. Now in its fifth edition, the book has been substantially updated and revised...
Rose Heilbron
The Story of England’s First Woman Queen's Counsel and Judge
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Rose Heilbron QC (later Dame Rose Heilbron), was an English barrister, who became a world famous icon of the 1950s and 1960s. She was one of the two first women King's Counsel (later Queen's Counsel) in 1949 and the first woman Judge in England in 1956 when she became Recorder of Burnley. This biography,...