Library Catalogue
Lives of the law :
Bingham, T. H. 1933-2010.
Lives of the law : selected essays and speeches 2000-2010 / Tom Bingham. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - xiv, 387 p. ; 25 cm.
Table of Contents:
Foreword, Jeffrey Jowell.
I. The Constitution and the Rule of Law.
Looking Backward.
1:Magna Carta.
2:The Alabama Claims and the International Rule of Law.
3:Dicey Revisited.
4:The Evolving Constitution.
5:The Old Order Changeth.
Looking Forward.
6:A Written Constitution?
7:The Future of the House of Lords.
II. The Business of Judging.
8:The Judges: Active or Passive?
9:Government and Judges: Friends or Enemies?
10:The Highest Court in the Land.
III. Human Rights and Human Wrongs.
11:The Human Rights Act: The View from the Bench.
12:Personal Freedom and the Dilemma of Democracies.
13:Habeas Corpus.
14:'The Law Favours Liberty': Slavery and the English Common Law.
15:I Beg Your Pardon.
IV. The Common Law.
16:From Servant to Employee: A Study of the Common Law in Action.
17:A Duty of Care: The Uses of Tort.
18:The Law as the Handmaiden of Commerce.
19:A New Thing under the Sun?: The Interpretation of Contracts and the ICS Decision.
20:The Internationalization of the Common Law.
V. Lives of the Law.
21:Dr Johnson and the Law.
22:Mr Bentham is Present.
9780199697304 (cloth : alk. paper) 0199697302 (cloth : alk. paper)
2011293908
Law--England.
Constitutional law--Great Britain.
Human rights--Great Britain.
KD358 / .B553 2011
Lives of the law : selected essays and speeches 2000-2010 / Tom Bingham. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - xiv, 387 p. ; 25 cm.
Table of Contents:
Foreword, Jeffrey Jowell.
I. The Constitution and the Rule of Law.
Looking Backward.
1:Magna Carta.
2:The Alabama Claims and the International Rule of Law.
3:Dicey Revisited.
4:The Evolving Constitution.
5:The Old Order Changeth.
Looking Forward.
6:A Written Constitution?
7:The Future of the House of Lords.
II. The Business of Judging.
8:The Judges: Active or Passive?
9:Government and Judges: Friends or Enemies?
10:The Highest Court in the Land.
III. Human Rights and Human Wrongs.
11:The Human Rights Act: The View from the Bench.
12:Personal Freedom and the Dilemma of Democracies.
13:Habeas Corpus.
14:'The Law Favours Liberty': Slavery and the English Common Law.
15:I Beg Your Pardon.
IV. The Common Law.
16:From Servant to Employee: A Study of the Common Law in Action.
17:A Duty of Care: The Uses of Tort.
18:The Law as the Handmaiden of Commerce.
19:A New Thing under the Sun?: The Interpretation of Contracts and the ICS Decision.
20:The Internationalization of the Common Law.
V. Lives of the Law.
21:Dr Johnson and the Law.
22:Mr Bentham is Present.
9780199697304 (cloth : alk. paper) 0199697302 (cloth : alk. paper)
2011293908
Law--England.
Constitutional law--Great Britain.
Human rights--Great Britain.
KD358 / .B553 2011