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BSOS Review Vol. 15 No.7 (July 2005), pp.617-620
Reviewed by Kirk A. Randazzo, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky. Email: Kirk.Randazzo@uky.edu
Good introduction
American Law In A Global Context is a good introduction to basic principles of American law. It covers most topics studied by law students in their first year of law school, and translates them into short chapters stressing the essential principles. It is interesting to notice that, while the topics treated in the book are very diverse, the authors manage to show links between the different areas of the (complex) American legal system.
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Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. General    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Law    5. Lawyers, Foreign    6. Legal System    7. Politics / Current Events    8. United States    9. Law / Comparative    10. Law | Comparative Law and National Legal Systems    11. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    12. USA   

Subjects:  1. Birmingham    2. Comparative Law    3. Criminal Law    4. Criminal Law - General    5. Criminal Procedure    6. England    7. Great Britain    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Trials (Robbery)    10. Courts & procedure   

Subjects:  1. Commercial - General    2. Comparative    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. EU competition law    6. Law / Commercial    7. Law | European Law   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Constitutional    3. Courts - General    4. International    5. Interpretation and construction    6. Judges    7. Judicial process    8. Law    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Political Ideologies - Democracy    11. Courts & procedure    12. Jurisprudence & General Issues    13. Law / Constitutional    14. Political Philosophy    15. Political Science and International Relations   

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Good synthesis on civil law
The first section on civil law tradition is good.It provides a sense of the complexity of history from Justinian to the great 19c civil codes of France and Germany and their areas of influence in Latin America etc, along with what these countries' systems have in common, and the convergence with Anglo notions in 20c.The essense of civil law seems here to be a certain formalism, emphasizing private law conceived in 3 parts (persons, property, contract) and downplaying the state, dating back to Institutes.Read more

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Comparative Law    3. General    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Comparative    3. European Union countries    4. General    5. International    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. European Union (EU) Law    9. Law / Comparative    10. Law | European Law   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Contracts    3. Contracts (Law)    4. Europe    5. Good faith (Law)    6. International    7. International Law    8. Law    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Contract law    11. Contracts--Europe    12. Law / Comparative   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Consumer    3. Consumer credit    4. Consumer protection    5. International - General    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Product safety    10. Comparative law    11. Consumer issues    12. Consumer law   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Democracy    3. Islam    4. Islam - Law    5. Islam and politics    6. Islamic Studies    7. Islamic countries    8. Political Ideologies - Democracy    9. Religion    10. Religion - World Religions    11. Religion and politics    12. Religious aspects    13. Middle Eastern Studies    14. Political Science and International Relations    15. Political ideologies    16. Religion / Islam / Law   

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Fine but superseded
This is an impressive study, but it should be allowed to go out of print.Barendt has done a second edition (2005), which supersedes this one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil Rights    2. Comparative    3. Freedom of speech    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Media & the Law    7. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    8. Constitutional & administrative law    9. Freedom of information & freedom of speech    10. Law / Media & the Law    11. Law | Constitutional Law   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Damages    3. Europe    4. General    5. Law    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Private Law    8. Torts    9. European Union (EU) Law    10. Law / International    11. Torts / delicts   

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This book made me cream myself
(a) While lawyers are associated in a firm, none of them shall knowingly represent a client when any one of them practicing alone would be prohibited from doing so by Rules 1.7 or 1.9, unless the prohibition is based on a personal interest of the prohibited lawyer and does not present a significant risk of materially limiting the representation of the client by the remaining lawyers in the firm. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Comparative law    3. Government - Comparative    4. Law    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Taxation    8. Taxation law   

Subjects:  1. Antitrust law    2. Commercial    3. Commercial - General    4. European Union countries    5. International    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Comparative law    9. EU law: private, property, family    10. Law / Comparative   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. England    3. Land Use    4. Land tenure    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Real Estate    9. Real property    10. Wales    11. English law: property (real estate)    12. Law / Land Use    13. Law | Property & Land Law   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. History    3. Law    4. Legal History    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Legal status, laws, etc.    7. Middle East - Israel    8. Nationalism    9. Palestine    10. Palestinian Arabs    11. 20th century    12. Law / Legal History    13. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    14. pre-1948 Palestine; Israel; Trans-Jordan; Ottoman Empire; Middle East; Levant; mandate system; Negev Desert; Beersheba; Jerusalem; Bedouin; ultraorthodox; Jews; Arabs; Palestinians; British colonialism; colonial discourse theory; Orientalism; anticolonialism; nationalism; Zionism; Hebrew law; Islamic law; halakhah; sharia; Norman Bentwich; Gad Frumkin; Thomas Haycraft; Michael McDonnell; Harry Trusted; Richard Manning; Randolph Copland; Owen Corrie; William FitzGerald; Hasan Sidqi al-Dajani; Margaret Nixon; Frederic Goadby; von Savigny; Samuel Eisenstadt; Paltiel Dickstein; Mordechai Eliash; Asher Gulak; Avraham Freimann; Fahmi al-Husayni; Abd al-Latif Salah; Aref el-Aref; Abcarius Bey; rabbinical courts; Jewish courts; sharia courts; slavery; child marriage; League of Nations; Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics; Hebrew University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; al-Huquq   

Subjects:  1. Asia    2. Asia - General    3. Civil rights    4. Comparative    5. France    6. General    7. History    8. History: World    9. Human Rights    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. Political Advocacy    12. Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights    13. Politics / Current Events    14. United States    15. History / Asia    16. Interdisciplinary Studies   

Subjects:  1. Civil law    2. Comparative    3. Comparative law    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Law / Comparative    7. Law | Comparative Law and National Legal Systems   

Subjects:  1. Civil law    2. Codification    3. Comparative    4. Europe    5. Law    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Private international law & conflict of laws   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Causation    3. Comparative    4. Europe    5. General    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Private Law    9. Torts    10. EU law: private, property, family    11. Law / International    12. Torts / delicts   

Subjects:  1. Comparative    2. Environmental    3. International    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Liability for environmental da    7. Liability for environmental damages    8. Comparative law    9. Environment law    10. International environmental law    11. Law / Environmental    12. Law / International    13. Law | Environmental Law    14. Law-Comparative    15. Law-Environmental    16. Pollution & threats to the environment