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This book seeks to explain tort law through an examination of the common law process and the substantive rules and principles that have emerged as a result. The Common Law of Process of Torts introduces students to legal reasoning. Students learn not only how to understand the rationale behind judicial opinions, but also how to predict and develop the legal arguments that will likely be successful. The limited scope of the casebook focuses and sharpens the students' understanding of the crucial issues of substantive tort law. Perhaps more importantly, it helps explain the nature of law and the law's relationship to justice. The Common Law of Process of Torts also assists beginning law students in understanding the procedural context in which torts cases arise and thus developing an additional perspective on civil procedure. Although many beginning law students find civil procedure to be quite difficult, the casebook's explanations and contextual examples of key procedural devices act as a user-friendly and practical guide to that area of law..
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Arbitration of overseas investment disputes is one of the fastest growing areas of international dispute resolution The exponential growth of international investment in recent years has led to the signature of over two thousand Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) between foreign states, in addition to a wealth of multilateral treaties and other forms of concession agreements. Disputes that have arisen are often resolved through the forum of international arbitration, and typically involve claims by an investor company for compensation when an investment has been illegally expropriated or adversely affected by the state's activities.
The legal principles that have developed in this area are subject to intense debate, and are still in a state of flux. While tribunals routinely state that they are applying principles of public international law to determine disputes, many of the principles applied have only been developed recently in the context of investment treaty arbitrations, and tribunals are often guided more by the approaches taken by other tribunals, than by pre-existing doctrines of public international law. However, the volume of law created, applied and analysed by tribunals is such that it is now possible to begin the necessary process of codification. International Investment Arbitration: Substantive Principles is an important step in this process. The book provides the first modern detailed analytical survey of the developing substantive principles of international law which are being applied to disputes by international investment tribunals. It considers the key questions that arise, and provides a clear description of the present state of the law as reflected in tribunal practice. Key areas of coverage include: the instruments under which investment disputes arise; the legal basis of treaty arbitration; dispute resolution and parallel proceedings; who is a foreign investor, including nationality issues and foreign control; what is an investment; investors' substantive rights; expropriation; compensation and remedies.
As the volume of international investment arbitration grows, international law firms are increasingly having to acquire expertise in all aspects of this specialised and rapidly developing field. Written by a leading author team from Herbert Smith, and benefiting from the public and private international law experience of Professor Campbell McLachlan QC of Victoria University of Wellington, this book is an essential reference work for international arbitration counsel, arbitrators, and academics.
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International arbitration lawyers in the UK and overseas (practitioners, arbitrators, and academics)
UK and international law libraries
Post-graduate students studying international arbitration
International arbitration institutions
Arbitrator institutions
Arbitrator nominating bodies and foreign offices of states
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Written by Henry F. Fradella (California State University, Long Beach), this book examines cases with comments, analyses, and discussion questions to help students grasp challenging material and test their knowledge .
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Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, "Our Constitution is color-blind." But in other judicial decisions—as well as in some areas of his life—Harlan's actions directly contradicted the essence of his famous statement. Similarly, Harlan was called the people's judge for favoring income tax and antitrust laws, yet he also upheld doctrines that benefited large corporations.

Examining these and other puzzles in Harlan's judicial career, Linda Przybyszewski draws on a rich array of previously neglected sources—including the verbatim transcripts of his 1897-98 lectures on constitutional law, his wife's 1915 memoirs, and a compilation of opinions, drawn up by Harlan himself, that he wanted republished. Her thoughtful examination demonstrates how Harlan inherited the traditions of paternalism, nationalism, and religious faith; how he reshaped these traditions in light of his experiences as a lawyer, political candidate, and judge; and how he justified the vision of the law he wrote.

An innovative combination of personal and judicial biography, this book makes an insightful contribution to American constitutional and intellectual history..
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Criminal Law Procedure lectures by Steven Palmer, Esq., part of the series of Multistate CD Reviews On 3 CDs..
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Nuts and Bolts of South Carolina Substantive and Procedural Law, Second Edition is the product of Judge Ralph King Anderson Jr.'s 20 years of distinguished service on the South Carolina Circuit and Appellate benches. The First Edition, published in the fall of 1994, became an instant classic. The newly expanded, updated and completely revised Second Edition is sure to become just as popular with busy litigators who don't have time to prepare a comprehensive, authoritative Trial Notebook covering all of the major issues that might surface during the trial. During his 17 years on the circuit court bench, Judge Anderson compiled a veritable traveling library of more than forty notebooks filled with case, rule and statutory authority covering practically every aspect of substantive and procedural law that ever arises in circuit court. Since joining the South Carolina Court of Appeals in 1997, Judge Anderson has maintained this scholarly compendium. If you're like most lawyers, you have neither the time nor the resources to compile and prepare case, rule and statutory authority into a systematic, organized and fully indexed Trial Notebook format. Now, however, Judge Anderson's unique Trial Notebook compendium, coveted by lawyers and judges all over the state, can be yours in a one volume "condensed version." Whether you try civil or criminal cases, this is a resource you should have..
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