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How Leading General Counsel are Shaping Tomorrow&'s CompaniesIn the past two decades, the General Counsel in many companies has risen in importance, and the GC is now often involved in business strategy from the inception. Consequently, the position has become more desirable, lucrative, and competitive. Those who achieve it are required to be...

A Guide to Four Major Common Law JurisdictionsA comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States. Higgins provides a practical set of principles to advise practitioners in the large number of areas where there is...

First published in 1933, this is one of the seminal works on international law, written by a legendary scholar in the field. It continues to influence international lawyers today. This republication, featuring a new introduction by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, once again makes this book available to scholars and students in this area....

The Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013 are a significant landmark in the history of the employment tribunals. They are the first to be largely drafted by the tribunal&'s senior judiciary under the leadership of Sir Nicholas (now Lord Justice) Underhill in his then capacity as President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Blackstone&'s Guide...

Problems of Justice and Responsibility in Liberal ThoughtThis book, a collection of eleven essays by one of the most interesting moral philosophers currently writing, is written from a perspective that is at once sympathetic towards and critical of liberal political philosophy. The essays explore the capacity of liberal thought, and of the moral...

A Very Short IntroductionWhat is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? In this Very Short Introduction Jonathan Herring provides an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It also looks at the future to consider what families will look like in the years ahead, and what new dilemmas the...