This volume sets out initially to test the claim that, as combinations of Civil and Common Law influences, the mixed systems of contract law in Scotland and South Africa have anticipated the content of the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) concluded and published in 2003 by the unofficial Commission on European Contract Law. The studies go much further, however. Current official moves towards a European contract law within the European Union lend the critiques of PECL offered in this volume an especial urgency and significance. A European contract law is nearer to reality than ever...
This volume sets out initially to test the claim that, as combinations of Civil and Common Law influences, the mixed systems of contract law in Scotla...
The protection of intellectual property--patents, copyrightand trade marks--is generally regarded as a high policy priority in the UK and the European Union. This book asks why this should be so. Is too much intellectual property actually bad for industry, trade and competition? Does intellectual property really provide an incentive for innovation through the creation of wealth? The contributors, who include the Patent Judges of the English High Court, argue that the present law and its further extension should receive much more critical scrutiny, in particular from an economic perspective....
The protection of intellectual property--patents, copyrightand trade marks--is generally regarded as a high policy priority in the UK and the European...
Exploring the relationship between law and society, this classic edition of Common Law and Feudal Society brings a key legal history text back to life in a popular new series, affordable for the student of Scottish legal history. The close links between the Scots and English law in the Middle Ages have long been recognised, but this classic text assesses the relevance of traditional approaches to Scottish legal history, setting the development of medieval law within the context of a society in which private lordship, exercised through courts and other less formal methods of dispute...
Exploring the relationship between law and society, this classic edition of Common Law and Feudal Society brings a key legal history text back to life...
The fifth edition of Studying Scots Law provides a highly readable account of the educational and training requirements for entry into the Scottish legal profession. It provides essential information on law courses throughout Scotland, and it will provide law students with an invaluable source of reference throughout their studies, as well as providing useful advice on study skills. Contents include: the Scottish legal system - the law in Scotland; entering the profession - courses; the university stage; alternatives to the law degree; the diploma in legal practice; professional training;...
The fifth edition of Studying Scots Law provides a highly readable account of the educational and training requirements for entry into the Scottish le...
