Books in the Clarendon Law Series series

This edition has been revised and updated, and a new chapter has been added, comparing tort with no-fault compensation in the light of accepted accident compensation policies.

Providing a clear introduction to employment law, this updated edition looks at the principles of the law governing employment relations, including employment contracts, industrial relations, discrimination laws, and the application of human rights law.

Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely recognised as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an essential reference point for all students of the subject. This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author responding to thirty years of comment, criticism, and further work in the field.

The fifth edition of this key student text provides an accessible and stimulating account of the legal framework of public administration. The new edition has been thoroughly reorganized to reflect the modern tranformation in the perception of the nature and function of administrative law.

Provides readers with an introduction to the theories, policies, and ideas that underlie the law, identifying an equal emphasis on the law and critical analysis. This sixth edition places the law of contract in a modern context and accounts for developments in the law, as well as those in academic thinking and writing.

This second edition of a classic in Anglo-American legal philosophy reopens the dialogue between Bentham's work and contemporary legal philosophy. Gerald J. Postema revisits the themes of the first edition in light of the latest scholarly criticism and provides new insights into the historical-philosophical roots of international law.

Written by one of the leading scholars of private international law, this third edition is an accessible introduction to the challenging area of the conflict of laws. Fully reconfigured to take into account the changes brought about by the European Regulations, Adrian Briggs' volume is an essential overview to the field.

Paul Davies' Introduction to Company Law is a comprehensive introduction, giving readers a clear framework with which to navigate the intricacies of company law. The functions of the core features of company law are clearly examined.

This book examines the nature and role of the many conventions which, rather than laws, are instrumental in determining many important questions of Government behaviour in Britain and other Commonwealth countries.

Competition law now affects virtually all aspects of economic life in many parts of the world. This book provides an overview of competition law's substantive content and methods as well as an analysis of its dynamics. It is a critical tool for anyone dealing with competition law.

Fifty years on from its first publication, The Concept of Law is still the starting point for the study of legal philosophy and is widely heralded as a classic work of modern philosophy. This third edition features a new introduction by Leslie Green, looking at Hart's work from the perspective of modern jurisprudence.

Public Law provides an introduction to the themes and problems of constitutional and administrative law - core subjects in any law degree. Written in the tradition of the Clarendon Law Series, Public Law offers concise and stimulating arguments, and is intended to encourage students to reflect critically on the law.

What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? This book examines this and other questions central to the study of jurisprudence. Care has been taken to make the legal elements of the book readily accessible to non-lawyers, and the philosophical elements to non-philosophers.