Is Eating People Wrong?

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores the consequences and fallouts of eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom! the United States and Australia that depict the common law as a dynamic process. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Klappentext
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.


Zusammenfassung
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores the consequences and fallouts of eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that depict the common law as a dynamic process.

Inhalt
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.

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