Reviews

General Problems of Private International Law. By O. Kahn-Freund. [Leyden: Sijthoff. 1976. 336 pp. Dfl.48·00.] Law in Modern Society. By Roberto Mangabeira Unger. [New York: The Free Press. 1976. ix + 309 pp. $12.95.] Power Law and Society. By Edgar Bodenheimer. [New York: Crane Russak. 1976. vii + 202 pp. No price given.] Fiduciary Obligations. By P. D. Finn. [Sydney: Law Book Co. Ltd. 1977. xxxvii and 299 pp. No price stated.] Computer Law. By Colin Tapper. [Longman Group Limited, London. 1978. 180 pp. + introduction, tables, bibliography and indexes. £6·95.] Alibi. By R. N. Gooderson. [London: Heinemann. 1977. 269 pp. £9·50.] Social Welfare Law. Edited by D. W. Pollard. [Oyez Publishing. 1977. £50 + £1 (postage and packing).] Council Housing. By David Hoath. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. (Modern Legal Studies) pp. xix + 169. Hardback: £4·00; Paperback: £2·50.] Fair Rent and Legal Fiction. By Piers Bierne. [Macmillan. 1977. Hardback: £8·95; Paperback: £3·95. pp. xix + 240.] The Homeless and the Empty Houses. By Ron Bailey. Penguin Books. 1977. pp. 287 95p.] Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences. Ninth Edition. Edited by Patrick Halnan. [Oyez, London, 1977. pp. cvii 931 incl. index. £18·00.] La Contrattazione Collettiva in Italia (1945–1977). Edited by B. Veneziani. [Bari: Cacucci Editore 1978. Lire 6.500. 341 pp.]     

The trouble with ownership

The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and AuthorialLiability in England, 1660–1730 By Jody Greene, 2005,Philadelphia, Penn, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press Price:£32.50, Cloth, ISBN 0-8122-3862-1. pp. 272 (includingindex).   The early, indeed pre-history of copyright continues to attractresearchers, many of them scholars possessed, as Bill Cornishhas put it, ‘of formidable polish’. Jody Greene'sabsorbing book will add her name to the list of such figures,though not all will agree with the conclusions that she drawsfrom her source     

REVIEWS

Critical Legal Studies: The Politics of Law. Edited by David Kairys. [New York: Pantheon Books. 1982. x and 321 pp. Paperback $9·95.] Critical Legal Studies: Law, State and Society. Edited by Bob Fryer, Alan Hunt, Doreen McBarnet and Bert Moorhouse. [London: Croom Helm. 1981. 234 pp. (including name index). Hardback £14·95.] Critical Legal Studies: A Bibliography Critical Legal Studies: The Law Lords. By Alan Paterson. [London: Macmillan. 1982. 287pp. £12.] Critical Legal Studies: The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kebell, A Case Study. By E. W. Ives. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History). 1983. 536 pp. £40.] Critical Legal Studies: People Against the Press. An Enquiry into the Press Council. By Geoffrey Robertson. [London: Quartet. 1983. 182 pp. (including appendices and index). £7£95.]     

Book reviews

Psychology in prisons. By David J. Cooke, Pamela J. Baldwin, and Jacqueline Howison. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 147. Paperback. ISBN 0-415-09714-2 (£10.99)

Memory-enhancing techniques for investigative interviewing: the cognitive interview. By Ronald P. Fisher and R. Edward Geiselman. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas 1992. Pp. 220. ISBN 0-398-05800-8 ($49.75)     

Arguing against inhumane and degrading punishment

Race, Crime, and the Law. Randall Kennedy. New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1997, xiv + 539 pp.     

A step back in time: nineteenth century US patent law revisited

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A Treatise on the Law of Patents for Useful Inventions, FourthEdition By George T. Curtis 1873; Boston: Little Brown Books.Reprinted 2006; Clerk, New Jersey: Lawbook Exchange. Price:US$150, ISBN: 1584775807, pages xxxvii + 749   In the United Kingdom, the great patent treatise of the twentiethcentury     

Multimedia Works and Categorization in UK Copyright Law

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Copyright Law in the Digital Society—The Challenges ofMultimedia By Tanya Aplin, 2005, Hart Publishing Price: £60,Hardback, ISBN: 1-84113-356-6, pp. 320   The protection of multimedia     

Ricketson and Ginsburg: Berne baby, Berne...

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International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights: The Berne Conventionand Beyond 2nd Edition By Sam Ricketson and Jane Ginsburg, 2006,Oxford University Press Price: £225, Hardback, ISBN: 0-19-825946-8pp lxxxvii + 1540, 2 Volumes   The praise     

Moving beyond the law: foreign pressure and the politics of piracy in China

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The Politics of Piracy – Intellectual Property in ContemporaryChina By Andrew C. Mertha, 2005, Cornell University Press Price:US$32.50, Hardback, ISBN: 0801443644. pp. 258   Criticism and proposed solutions surrounding China's ‘intellectualproperty problem’ in many cases have been     

Copyright, continuums and freedom of speech

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Copyright and Free Speech Comparative and International Analyses ByJonathan Griffiths and Uma Suthersanen, Eds, 2005, Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press Price: £80.00, Hardback, ISBN: 0199276048.pp. 426   If one were to summarize this     

Valued varieties

European Community Plant Variety Protection By Gert Würtenberger,Paul van der Kooij Bart Kiewiet and Martin Ekvad, 2006, Oxford:Oxford University Press Price: £95, Hardback, ISBN: 0-19-928616-7.pages 311

This book provides an up-to-date overview and commentary abouta truly EU community IP system: The European Community VarietyProtection Right system (CPVR, based on Council Regulation 2100/94). Plant variety protection (PVP) was formerly considered a rather‘exotic’ field of IP law, used only by     

Terrell on Patents--a patent attorney's perspective

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Terrell on the Law of Patents By Simon Thorley, QC, RichardMiller,     

The emerging international framework of business marks in the digital economy

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Domain Name Law and     

Scholarship and intelligent discussion

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Intellectual Property Rights and the EC     

The internal market and the grand exception

The Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Community Law The Lawof the Internal Market By A.G. Toth, 2005, Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress Price: £155.00, Hardback, ISBN: 0-19-825600-0   This second volume of the Oxford Encyclopaedia appears somefifteen years after the first volume, which dealt with InstitutionalLaw. A third volume is projected which will cover CompetitionLaw. Given the excellence of the first two volumes, one hopesthat we will not have to wait as long for the final instalment.An update of the     

REVIEWS

The Discipline of the Law . By Lord Denning . [London: Butterworths. 1979. xxii and 330 pp. £4·50.] Selected Writings . By Otto Kahn -Freund . [London: Stevens and Sons under the auspices of the Modern Law Review. 1978. xv and 381 incl. bibliography (no index). Price £10·00.] Textbook of Criminal Law . By Glanville Williams . [Stevens. 1978. Pp. xl and 973. Hardback: £16·00; Paperback: £10·00.] Denial of Justice ; Criminal Process in the United States . By Lloyd L. Weinreb . [The Free Press, Macmillan, New York. 1977, pp. xi and 177 Hardback $12.95.] Legal Services Plans —Approaches to Regulation . By W. Pfennigstorf and S. L. Kimball (editors). [1977. Chicago. American Bar Foundation. xxiv and 662 (including appendices). No price stated.] Consumer Credit . Edited by R. M. Goode . [London: The United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law. 1978. xx + 488 pp. £30·41.] The Private International Law of Matrimonial Causes in the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland . By P. M. North . [Amsterdam, New York and Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Co. 1977. xxiii and 465 pp. (with appendices, tables and index). Dfl. 110 00/U.S. $47.95/£27·00.] The Matrimonial Property Act 1976. By R. L. Fisher . [(Butterworths: Wellington N.Z. 1977. pp. xvii + 187 including index, N.Z. $15.00.)] Canadian Family Law : Cases and Materials . Edited by Simon Fodden . [Toronto: Butterworths. 1977. xiv + 889 pp. incl. index, $42.25.] The Law of Weights and Measures . Second Edition. By J. O'Keefe . [Butterworths. 1977. £55·00.] The Patents Act 1977. Queen Mary College Patent Conference Papers . Edited by Mary Vitoria . [Published for the Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary College, University of London by Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. xv and 95 pp. £7·25.] American Conveyancing Patterns . By D. Barlow Burkb Jr . [Lexington Books. 1978. D. C. Heath & Company, Lexington, Mass. p. xiii and 224. Hardback $18.95.] Harmonisation of Private International Law by the EEC. Edited by K. Lipstein . [Published by Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London), 1978. pp. vii, 195. £8·50 paperback.] Sociological Inquiry and Legal Phenomena . By Clive Grace and Philip Wilkinson . [Collier Macmillan. 1978. pp. x + 292 (References and Recommended Reading). £8·50.]     

Navigating the rocky waters of trade mark law

Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names, 14th Edition ByDavid Kitchin QC, David Llewelyn, James Mellor, Richard Meade,Tom Moody-Stuart, David Keeling; with Consultant Editor: TheRt. Hon Sir Robin Jacob; Sweet & Maxwell, 2005 Price: £255,Hardback, ISBN: 0421860804, pp. 1,350   Until recently, trade mark practitioners in the United Kingdomhad to make do with the 13th edition of Kerly, the 1st editionof The Modern Law of Trade Marks, or the CIPA/ITMA Handbookwhen navigating the rocky waters of trade mark law and practice.The first two of these texts     

A very short guide to an awful lot

Harmonised Trade Mark Law in Europe By Ulrich Hildebrandt 2005,Cologne: Carl Heymanns Verlag Price: 48, Hardback, ISBN: 3-452-25922-6. pp.150   Dr Ulrich Hildebrandt, a lawyer in private practice in Berlinand a lecturer at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf,has had an interesting and useful idea. In this book he hasproduced a compilation of the case law of the European Courtof Justice interpreting the Council Directive 89/104 to approximatethe laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (includingdecisions     

BOOK REVIEWS

ABSTRACT

THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: CLOSING THE CIRCLE OF INDEPENDENCE. Duke E. Pollard. The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, Limited 2004, 365 pp., 7 Chapters. ISBN 976-8167-41-4. Reviewed by Camillo M. Gonsalves.

CARIBBEAN DRUGS: FROM CRIMINALIZATION TO HARM REDUCTION. Axel Klein, Marcus Day, and Anthony Harriott (eds.). London, UK: Zed Books Limited, Ian Randle Publishers and DrugScope, 2004, 245 pp., ISBN 1-84277-499-9. Reviewed by Wilson R. Palacios.     

Which law applies? A reply to Professor Torremans

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In a recent article,¹ Professor Torremans argues that the countryof origin (sometimes called the lex originis) should be thelaw applied to authorship and ownership of copyright.² There is no doubt that several countries do apply the countryof origin to initial ownership and authorship of copyright works.Citing both the Austrian and Belgian Codes on Private InternationalLaw as examples,³ Professor Torremans also mentions the decisionof the US Second Circuit of Appeals in . . . [Full Text of this Article]