Tom Bingham
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198299127
- eISBN:
- 9780191685620
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198299127.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal Profession and Ethics, Philosophy of Law
Judges spend their public lives in courtrooms. They speak to the public through their judgments. But senior judges are frequently invited to contribute to professional, ...
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Judges spend their public lives in courtrooms. They speak to the public through their judgments. But senior judges are frequently invited to contribute to professional, judicial, or academic conferences or publications, on whatever topic engages the attention of the audience at the time. This book contains a selection of the essays and addresses written or given by the present Senior Law Lord (as a Queen's Bench judge, Lord Justice of Appeal, Master of the Rolls, and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales) over the last 15 years or so, touching on a wide range of legally related topics.Less
Judges spend their public lives in courtrooms. They speak to the public through their judgments. But senior judges are frequently invited to contribute to professional, judicial, or academic conferences or publications, on whatever topic engages the attention of the audience at the time. This book contains a selection of the essays and addresses written or given by the present Senior Law Lord (as a Queen's Bench judge, Lord Justice of Appeal, Master of the Rolls, and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales) over the last 15 years or so, touching on a wide range of legally related topics.
Andrew Burrows, David Johnston, QC, and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199677344
- eISBN:
- 9780191758379
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199677344.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal Profession and Ethics
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry was a distinguished judge and scholar. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the author of many high quality law journal articles and two books. ...
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Lord Rodger of Earlsferry was a distinguished judge and scholar. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the author of many high quality law journal articles and two books. Written in memory of Lord Rodger, this book contains forty-seven chapters by Lord Rodger's friends and colleagues from the UK and Europe. The chapters reflect Lord Rodger's role as a leading judge and also his wide-ranging academic interests including Roman law, Scots law, legal history, and a miscellany of other topics. The contributors to this volume are leading academics or judges, and a particularly notable feature is the nine chapters written by Supreme Court justices. As the highest judges in the UK they provide a unique insight into the work of the Supreme Court, as well as Lord Rodger's work in the Court. The book also includes the memorial tributes to Lord Rodger which explain his remarkable legal career, including his roles as Lord Advocate (Senior Law Officer of Scotland) Lord President of the Court of Session, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and, finally, Justice of the UK Supreme Court. The chapters include personal reminiscences of Lord Rodger, helping the reader to understand why he was so highly regarded and why his untimely death has dealt such a devastating blow to law in the UK.Less
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry was a distinguished judge and scholar. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the author of many high quality law journal articles and two books. Written in memory of Lord Rodger, this book contains forty-seven chapters by Lord Rodger's friends and colleagues from the UK and Europe. The chapters reflect Lord Rodger's role as a leading judge and also his wide-ranging academic interests including Roman law, Scots law, legal history, and a miscellany of other topics. The contributors to this volume are leading academics or judges, and a particularly notable feature is the nine chapters written by Supreme Court justices. As the highest judges in the UK they provide a unique insight into the work of the Supreme Court, as well as Lord Rodger's work in the Court. The book also includes the memorial tributes to Lord Rodger which explain his remarkable legal career, including his roles as Lord Advocate (Senior Law Officer of Scotland) Lord President of the Court of Session, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and, finally, Justice of the UK Supreme Court. The chapters include personal reminiscences of Lord Rodger, helping the reader to understand why he was so highly regarded and why his untimely death has dealt such a devastating blow to law in the UK.
Laurence Claus
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199735099
- eISBN:
- 9780199950478
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735099.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal Profession and Ethics
When should we follow the law? How can we know what law's words mean? What is law? This book presents fresh and surprising answers to these questions. In an account alive with the stories of our ...
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When should we follow the law? How can we know what law's words mean? What is law? This book presents fresh and surprising answers to these questions. In an account alive with the stories of our shared human history, the book explains why we should discard the old idea that legal rules tell us what to do, and instead see law as a system of sayings that evolves among humans to help us better understand each other. When driving on public roads, when buying and selling, and in countless other aspects of our work and play, we depend on law to let us know what other people are likely to do and to expect of us. Through pages of anecdote and argument, this book explains the revolutionary consequences of seeing law as truly what Oliver Wendell Holmes called it: systematized prediction. The book reveals how this vision of law can transform our thinking about the way we make moral decisions, about the way we read law, and about many other ways that law affects our lives.Less
When should we follow the law? How can we know what law's words mean? What is law? This book presents fresh and surprising answers to these questions. In an account alive with the stories of our shared human history, the book explains why we should discard the old idea that legal rules tell us what to do, and instead see law as a system of sayings that evolves among humans to help us better understand each other. When driving on public roads, when buying and selling, and in countless other aspects of our work and play, we depend on law to let us know what other people are likely to do and to expect of us. Through pages of anecdote and argument, this book explains the revolutionary consequences of seeing law as truly what Oliver Wendell Holmes called it: systematized prediction. The book reveals how this vision of law can transform our thinking about the way we make moral decisions, about the way we read law, and about many other ways that law affects our lives.
Accounting for Oneself
Adjusting to a World in Motion
Advancing the Human Right to Health
Aid and Development
The AIDS Generation
Aliens and Strangers?
The Alternatives to War
Altruism in Humans
American Arcadia
