This survey introduces the general reader to a number of fundamental issues about the law, the legal profession, and the adjudicative process, and answers many of the questions ordinary people ask about our idiosyncratic legal system.

Law and Modern Society (O P U S)

Atiyah, P.S.

Legal Theory & Systems

Oxford University Press

158p paperback, slightly worn with minor faults, minor soiling to edge, still very useful

Law and Modern Society

The law in a modern society is a bulky and complex instrument, with a tendency to become less fixed, less rule-oriented, and more discretionary. An institution made by men for the government of men, the law today can all too readily confuse and dismay us. How and why is so much new law made? By what right does a judge order that a man be sent to jail? Why is so much law so bad, and why should we, the people, accept the laws made by those who claim the right to govern us? In this lucid, stimulating and completely updated survey which presupposes no specialist knowledge of the subject, P. S. Atiyah introduces the reader to a number of fundamental issues about the law, the legal profession, and the adjudicative process. This new edition gives greater emphasis to the effect of membership of the European Community on English law, and gives an expanded account of the European convention on Human Rights with its subsequent effects on English law. Atiyah also looks at the recent controversy over the independence of the judiciary, problems arising from the cost of legal services and legal aid, and the many appalling miscarriages of justice which have disfigured the legal system in the past decade.

Law and Modern Society (OPUS)

The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract

The impact of freedom of contract in the 19th century extended far beyond the legal arena as an economic slogan and an ethical attitude. Atiyah traces the development and subsequent decline of the freedom of contract, depicting its effects on the law's development and the foundation of contractual obligations, as well as its broader implications for 19th century English life.

Promises, Morals, and Law

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Originally published in 1988 and now available in a revised paperback edition, this collection of essays by one of the leading contract theorists of the common law world concerns the theory and foundations of contractual liability. This paperback edition includes a new essay, "Freedom of Contract and the New Right," which charts the latest shift in the development of contract law back in the direction of Freedom of Contract. This collection will especially appeal to students and scholars of contract law and theory and the law of obligation.

Essays on Contract (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Business & Money

International

Clarendon Press

Oxford University Press [Published Date: 1982]. Soft cover, 218 pp. 1991 Reprint. [ From Publisher's Summary] This book attempts an analysis of the nature of promissory obligations. The subject is one which has attracted a great deal of attention among both moral and linguistic philosophers, but the book contends that much of the philosophical literature is flawed by its unreality and unfamiliarity with the serious problems that arise from the practice of promising. The book conducts a thorough survey of the various philosophical theories, injecting in the discussion many examples and illustrations drawn from law. The first part of the book examines theories of promising associated with Natural Lawyers, utilitarians, and a number of linguistic philosophers. All of these the book rejects as unsound. The last part of the book offers a theory of promissory obligation, which closely parallels theories of contractual obligation.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

History

Europe

Essays on Contract

P.S. Atiyah is one of the leading contract theorists of the common law world. These collected essays, published over the last twenty years and here revised or rewritten, are all concerned with the theory and foundation of contractual liability. Atiyah has also taken the opportunity to rebut earlier criticisms of this views.

This book has a completely original theme, or set of themes. It offers first a new way of analyzing styles of legal reasoning--between more "formal" and more "substantive" styles--that is a major contribution to jurisprudence in its own right. The authors then go on to demonstrate in detail the differences in legal reasoning--and in the legal systems as a whole--between England and America, and suggest that the English is a much more "formal" system and the American a more "substantive." Finally, the book explores a wide range of cultural, institutional, and historical factors relating to the two legal systems.

Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study in Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, and Legal Institutions

Literature & Fiction

Summers, Robert S.

Dramas & Plays

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Law and Modern Society (O P U S)

Law and Modern Society

Law and Modern Society (OPUS)

The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract

Promises, Morals, and Law

Essays on Contract (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Promises, Morals, and Law

The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract

Essays on Contract

Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study in Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, and Legal Institutions