Academic literature on the topic 'Law book'

This article is a book review of Sue Farran and Don Paterson South Pacific Property Law (Cavendish Publishing, London, 2004) (300 + xli pages) NZ$95. The book is part of a series of books which has been produced by the staff of the Law School of the University of South Pacific. Property law is diverse and continually changing, and there is a paucity of accessible information about the property law in the South Pacific. As the subject matter has broad coverage, and because of the difficulty of access to the law in most Pacific jurisdictions, Angelo notes that the authors will not have specific knowledge of all the laws in the field. However, Angelo ultimately concludes that the book is a treasury of property law material and a full text which will be of value as a point of reference and starting point for research.

To write a review essay about three books on what at first glance appear to be very divergent topics may seem like an impossible task. Samera Esmeir's book, Juridical Humanity, is an exploration of colonial law as it conscripted Egyptians into the grid of humanity; Judith Butler's Parting Ways is a critique of Zionism and state violence from a Jewish perspective; and Hussein Agrama's Questioning Secularism is about the paradoxical nature of secular power as manifest in modern Egypt. Despite this divergence, I found a rich thematic resonance between the three books that was unexpected and illuminating. All three books are deep meditations on the nature of law, its violent and performative character, even as they are also about a lot more. In what follows, I discuss the central themes of each book with a short rumination on their shared themes.

Although the transformative influence of the printed word is acknowledged in the history of the common law (I will focus primarily on law books), there is as yet no comprehensive study which looks at how the production and dissemination of that printed word was shaped by “communities of printers, booksellers, readers and (for want of a better word) censors”. Not only does this deprive us of a fascinating narrative on the history of the law book, but also, as a consequence, prevents us from tracking more accurately than before the impact of the printed word on legal development across the centuries. As only a book length study could provide a complete narrative on this history, the present article will focus on one part of this story, namely the impact of the practices of printers and booksellers (who were the most important members of the book trade and will therefore be collectively referred to as “the book trade”) on law book publishing in the eighteenth century.

On the surface, the two books under review seem to have little in common. The Bonnitcha/Poulsen/Waibel (BPW) book, written by two legal academics and a political scientist, provides a balanced, fact-grounded account of international investment agreements (IIAs) and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This is the “international treaty regime” in that book's title which the authors argue needs to be distinguished from the broader “international regime complex” that their book explicitly does not address, namely the number of other international instruments that at least incidentally also protect foreign investments (including, for example, political risk insurance, tax treaties, certain World Trade Organization agreements, and certain human rights treaties like the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)) (p. 7 and Figure 1.2). As one of the encomiums on its back cover page suggests, the BPW book seeks to answer the fraught competing contentions of defenders and critics of the regime that all too frequently generate “more heat than light.” Their book dispassionately synthesizes the available legal, economic, and political literature relevant to understanding the investment treaty regime's oft-proclaimed “legitimacy crisis.” It seeks to supply lawyers needing political context and political scientists needing legal knowledge with the unfiltered facts required to assess whether such a “crisis” exists and, if so, what the ways forward might be.

In Britain the term ‘obscenity’ has enjoyed a chequered career. Obscene libel first became an offence in 1727 when an erotic book called Venus in the Cloister was found to contravene common law by tending to ‘weaken the bonds of civil society, virtue and morality’ (Robertson 1991, p. 180). Despite this, erotic literature remained freely available throughout the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century Britain got its first Obscene Publications Act. This came in 1857 and gave the police power to take books before local Justices who could order their forfeiture and destruction.

Digital learning is becoming alternative learning route to face to face learning especially during this pandemic situation whereby face to face learning needs to be minimized. Interactive e-book would be one of the solution for students to learn interactively. The subject of Business law was chosen as it one of the dry subject which often students find it difficult to study as it requires understanding of statutes, cases and the application these to the real life scenario. The uniqueness of this interactive e-book is the researcher had design and customized the interactive e-book to suit the different learning styles of students. The e-book contains short notes which help the students read and understand the topic. Thirdly it is embedded with short videos and background music which the content was developed by the researcher, to enable the students to watch practical real life scenario in order to understand the given topic. Fourthly the pop out video is converted to augment reality whereby students need all scan the to watch the video. Next, the e-book also contains comic learning material to capture the students interest to continue reading. Lastly the e-book contains e-quiz at the end of the topic as an assessment to measure students understanding of the topic. In future other subject could also use this design to develop content which suits the intended subjects.

This book review essay critically reflects on The Twilight of Human Rights Law by Eric Posner. I compare his arguments with some of the findings in the books The Endtimes of Human Rights by Stephen Hopgood and The Dark Sides of Virtue by David Kennedy. All three books contain a pragmatic critique on international human rights law. I conclude that Posner succeeds in pointing to certain fundamental challenges that the international human rights movement should address. However, by wholly rejecting the idea of international human rights law, Posner in fact makes an ideological rather than pragmatic move. The problems that the book identifies should not be regarded as a reason to dismiss the regime in its entirety, but rather as an opportunity to improve it so that the supposed gap between local human rights activism and international human rights law may close.

The purpose of this research is: 1) To find out and analyze the protection of the economic rights of the creators of e-books on free book sites in response to the development of informatics law and electronic transactions. 2) To find out and analyze dispute resolution violations of the economic rights of e-book creators on free book sites in response to developments in informatics law and electronic transactions. The research method used in this study is normative juridical research that takes a qualitative approach that looks at and analyzes the legal norms in existing laws and regulations and sociological research is complementary data as primary data. The results of this study are: 1) Protection of the economic rights of e-book creators on free book sites in response to the development of informatics law and electronic transactions, related to the protection of creators' economic rights in accordance with the Copyright Law that an e-book is a copyrighted work produced by the creator, so in this case the creator has a part of the exclusive rights in the form of economic rights from the results of the e-book, the economic rights are protected by Article 8 and Article 9 of the Copyright Law on Economic Rights. While the ITE Law provides the protection of the creator's economic rights in terms of electronic transactions, because of the nature of the distribution of e-books using electronic media, where the legal electronic media is included in the realm of the ITE Law. 2) Settlement of disputes on economic violations of e-book creators on free book sites in response to developments in informatics law and electronic transactions, namely through voluntary mediation carried out by parties outside the court in settling disputes over copyright infringement e-books in the realm of civil law.