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Responsibility in Law and Moralityby Peter Cane
Hart 2002; US$ 96.00By adopting a comparative institutional approach to the link between law and morality, this questions the view that morality stands to law as critical standard to conventional practice. It shows how law and morality interact symbiotically, and how this can add to our understanding of responsibility more...
The First Women Lawyersby Mossman Mary Jane
Hart 2006; US$ 74.40Reveals how a number of quite different women engaged with ideas of gender and legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century. By situating women's claims for admission to the bar within this context in different jurisdictions, this study examines the intersection of historical ideas about gender and about legal professionalism. more...
Women in the World's Legal Professionsby Ulrike Schultz; Gisela Shaw
Hart 2003; US$ 189.60Women lawyers,less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key questions asked in this first comprehensive study of women in the world?s legal professions. Answers are based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, using a variety of conceptual frameworks. 26 contributions by 25 authors present and evaluate the situation of women in the legal profession in both common and civil law countries in the developed world. 15 countries from four continents are covered: the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands,... more...
International Yearbook for Legal Anthropologyby Richard Potz; René Kuppe
BRILL 2004; US$ 131.00The Yearbook brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject. more...
Third-Party Liability of Classification Societiesby Jürgen Basedow; Wolfgang Wurmnest
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 129.00With the worldwide upsurge of lawsuits against classification societies, their liability towards third parties has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary maritime law. This study highlights the development in Australian, English, French, New Zealand, and US law before discussing the relevant issues under German law. more...
Marine Resource Damage Assessmentby Frank Maes
Springer 2006; US$ 179.00Focusses on civil liability regimes to compensate for ecological/environmental damage (CLC 1992 - Fund 1992, Directive 2004/35/EC and national legislation in Belgium and Latvia), the impact of EC decision-making on the international regime for oil pollution damage, the use of environmental funds in this respect (IOPC Fund, SSOP Fund), and others. more...
Legal Ethics and Human Dignityby David Luban
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 38.00A wide-ranging collection of essays from a leading scholar of legal ethics. more...
Maritime Work Law Fundamentalsby Iliana Christodoulou-Varotsi; Dmitry A. Pentsov
Springer 2007; US$ 219.00A comprehensive compilation composed of 86 international and regional instruments on the regulatory framework of maritime work, this book fills a gap by constituting a practical reference tool with developments and more than 1000 references from international bibliography and case-laws. more...
State Responsibility for Interferences with the Freedom of Navigation in Public International Lawby Philipp Wendel
Springer 2007; US$ 139.00A multitude of conventions in the area of the Law of the Sea contains provisions on the issue of compensation for (wrongful) interferences with navigation. This book analyses various relevant compensation provisions and compares them to the general law of state responsibility. more...
International Commercial and Marine Arbitrationby Georgios I. Zekos
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 42.95International Commercial and Marine Arbitration analyses and compares commercial-martime arbitration, and the role of the courts in arbitration in several different legal systems including the US, the UK, Greece and Belgium, and also sets out how the process of arbitration should be developed in order to make it more effective. more...









