An important collection examining how socio-legal studies and empirical legal research can be integrated into the law curriculum, looking at both core qualifying subjects and stand-alone socio-legal modules, and considering theoretical and methodological approaches combined with practical examples.

This book explores the consequences of eight exemplary cases around which the common law developed to reveal the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions.

Incorporates topics like: Utilitarianism, Scandinavian realism, Feminism, Liberalism, the New Critics, and the Hart v Dworkin debate. This book also includes a separate chapter on Dworkin's Law's Empire.

Explaining the various ideas in legal philosophy, this title introduces students to the fundamental themes in legal philosophy. It analyses and comments on the writing of the foremost legal theorists.

Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. She argues that in the last twenty years we have seen a steady erosion of civil liberties, culminating today in extraordinary legislation, which undermines long established freedoms.

Critical and provocative, this first textbook on law and religion sets out the key principles and is essential student reading.

The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions.

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The Law Student's Dictionary provides an invaluable reference work for all law students. The terms have been chosen with the specific needs of the undergraduate student in mind, and the text includes substantial entries on core student topics, which help to explain and contextualise these key areas.

Law's Empire provides a judicious and coherent introduction to the place of law in our lives.

Rev ed. of: Legal English / William R. McKay, Helen E. Charlton. 2005.

Provides a clear guide to the main topics in a jurisprudence or legal theory course with the novice in mind. Looking at the emergence of 'Critical Legal Studies' and 'Feminist Jurisprudence', this book also provides summaries of the pertinent arguments within these topics, and of the views of leading theorists.

Incisively and stylishly written, this book constitutes an open challenge to reconsider the fundamental question of the relationship of law to society.

Letters to a Law Student relays all that a prospective law student needs to know before embarking on their studies. It provides a useful guide to those considering a law degree or conversion course and helps students prepare for what can be a daunting first year of study.

Provides an understanding of how to effectively conduct mediation. This book shows what mediation is, the rationale behind it and how it differs from litigation. It provides tips and case studies, setting out the do's and don'ts of mediation. It is aimed at mediators, and solicitors and barristers representing clients at mediation.

Offers an insight into the idiosyncrasies of the English legal system and how it has changed since the late 1960s.

From the number one bestselling, award-winning Secret Barrister - an entertaining and surprising memoir about their hilarious and heartbreaking journey from austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning reformer.

In Online Courts and the Future of Justice, Richard Susskind, the world's most cited author on the future of legal service, argues that online courts will transform litigation and solve two problems: less than 50% of humanity have access to justice; and, in most legal systems, resolving legal disputes is too costly, slow, complex, and antiquated.

This bestselling dictionary is an invaluable resource for both legal professionals and students of law, defining major legal terms, concepts, and processes within the English legal system. This tenth edition has been fully revised to reflect the UK's new status outside the EU and includes expanded coverage of constitutional and medical law.

This classic account of how the judiciary cannot act neutrally, but must act politically, now in its fifth edition