Common Law

Unlike statutory law, which relies on the explicit formulation of rules, common law is thought to emerge from a complex doctrine of precedential co...

In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mechanism for regulating the excesses of ...

This book presents a clear, carefully-analysed picture of the operation of equity today, across the common law world. Rather than revisit the abstr...

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Comm...

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that covers linguistics and jurisprudence, shows the interconnectedness of law and language, singles...

The law of mitigation determines how a claimant's own response to a breach affects the damages they can recover. It responds to the basic accusatio...

This book is an illuminating exploration of contemporary law, unveiling pivotal shifts, pressing challenges, and dynamic frameworks. The anthology ...

Help your students begin to understand tort law like professionals with this accessible text. Written by two leading scholars, Tort Law, 7th editio...

Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law is the first 100% open-access collection of peer-reviewed essays devoted entirely to critical apprais...

Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law is the first 100% open-access collection of peer-reviewed essays devoted entirely to critical apprais...

This is the story of how disputes of all kinds were managed in England between AD 1154 and the first signs of the Common Law, and 1558 when a new p...

Exploring the relationship between law and society, this classic edition of Common Law and Feudal Society brings a key legal history text back to l...

Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between commodity and communi...

'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition. Confusion over the phrase's hi...

This volume contributes to the codification debate by bringing together research articles which compare and contrast the experience of countries wh...

Globally, the methodologies of legal education have not changed in any fundamental way, some methods dating back hundreds of years. Law schools hav...

Always the serious student's choice for a Trusts Law textbook, the new seventh edition of Moffat's Trusts Law once again provides a clear examinati...