Allan C. Hutchinson

Is Eating People Wrong?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the consequences of eight exemplary cases around which the common law developed to reveal the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781107000377
• ISBN-10: 1107000378
• Artikelnr.: 31305991

Autorenporträt

Allan C. Hutchinson is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, Toronto and a widely recognized leading law scholar. In 2004, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2006 he was named as a Distinguished Research Professor of York University. Hutchinson has authored and/or edited sixteen books, most recently The Province of Jurisprudence Democratized and Evolution and the Common Law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. In praise of great cases
the big, the bad and the goodly; 2. Is eating people wrong?
the law and lore of the sea; 3. Bearing witness
in support of the rule of law; 4. In the hunt
power, property, and possession; 5. Shades of brown
a constitutional catharsis; 6. A snail in a bottle
nature, neighbours, and negligence; 7. An aboriginal title
the lie and law of the land; 8. Grinding at the mill
putting limits on agreements; 9. Of crimes and cautions
the rights and rites of investigation; 10. Coming up for air
the common law at 2010.