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Book reviewed in this article: Loraine Gelsthorpe, Sexism and the Female Offender Stephen B. Goldberg, Eric D. Green and Frank E.A. Sander, Dispute Resolution Chris Reed (ed), Computer Law Colin Bourn and John Whitmore, Discrimination and Equal Pay Robert Alexy, A Theory of Legal Argumentation: The Theory of Rational Discourse as Theory of Legal Justification Victor-Yves Ghebali, The International Labour Organisation. A Case Study on the Evolution of UN Specialised Agencies     

REVIEWS: IS THE REFORM OF LEGAL EDUCATION HOPELESS? OR,SEEING THE HOLE INSTEAD OF THE DOUGHNUT

Book reviewed in this article: Law School : Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s. By R. Stevens Law and Modern Society . By P. S. Atiyah Current Legal Theory . International Journal for Documentation on Legal Theory Political Trials in Britain . By Peter Hain     

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Book reviewed in this article: HAMLYN REVISITED; The British Legal System Today . By Lord Hailsham of St . Marylebone . Instrumentalism and American Legal Theory . By Robert Samuel Summers .     

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Lives of the Lord Chancellors 1940-1970, By R. F. V. Heuston . Definition and Rule in Legal Theory : A Reassessment of H. L. A. Hart and the Positivist Tradition . By Robert N. Moles.     

“Critical Empiricism” in American Legal Studies: Paradox,Program, or Pandora's Box?

This essay was originally presented at the Conference on American and German Traditions of Sociological Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thought organized by the Center for European Legal Policy, Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany, July 10-12, 1986. Subsequent versions were discussed at the Department of Sociology, Northwestern University (February 1987) and the Workshop on Legal Theory at the University of Virginia Law School (March 1987). Comments by participants at these events, members of the Amherst Seminar, Boaventura Santos, Kristin Bumiller, and G. Edward White are gratefully acknowledged. An earlier version of the paper appears in Joerges & Trubek, eds., Critical Legal Thought in Germany and America: A German-American Debate (Baden-Baden: NOMOS, 1989).     

Authority, Meaning and Inclusive Legal Positivism

Book reviewed in this article:
Jules Coleman, The Practice of Principle: In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory     

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Bailment . By N. E. Palmer . Remedies for Breach of Contract . By Hugh Beale . Legal Norms and Legal Science . A Critical Study of Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law . By Ronald Moore . Moral and Legal Reasoning . By S. J. Stoljar . The Politics of the U.S. Supreme Court . By Richard Hodder -Williams . Kindesmisshandlung ? By Dieter Giesen . Of Presbyters and Kings : Church and State in the Law of Scotland . By Francis Lyall . The Maritime Zones of Islands in International Law . By Clive R. Symmons . Oil Rigs : Law and Insurance (Some Aspects of the Law and Insurance Relating to Offshore Mobile Drilling Units ). By Michael Summerskill . Cases and Materials on International Law . Second edition. Studies in Civil Procedure . Edited by Eric Gertner . Perspectives on Legal Aid —An International Survey . Edited by Frederick H. Zemans . Solicitors and the Wider Community . By David Podmore .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Semiotics and Legal Theory. By B. S. Jackson The New Select Committees, A Study of the 1979 Reforms. Edited by Gavin Drewry for the Study of Parliament Group. Family Law: Cases, Comments and Questions. 2nd Edition. By Harry D. Krause Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation. By Sissela Bok.     

Reviews

Joseph Raz, Ethics in the Public Domain Robert C. Palmer, English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348–1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law Brian Bix, Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy Ramsey Clark, The Fire This Time: US War Crimes in the Gulf Anthony I. Ogus, Regulation: Legal Form and Economic Theory Christopher Wadlow, The Law of Passing Off Robin Hollington, Minority Shareholders' Rights     

Book Reviews

Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order Oliver E. Williamson The Mechanisms of Governance Margaret Thornton Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession Philip A. Thomas (ed.) Socio-Legal Studies Michael King A Better World for Children? Explorations in Morality and Authority Judith Allsop and Linda Mulcahy Regulating Medical Work: Formal and Informal Controls Philip Pettit Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government Richard L. Abel Politics by Other Means. Law in the Struggle against Apartheid, 1980–1994     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Tobias M. C. Asser, Legal Aspects of Regulatory Treatment of Banks in Distress
Philip Alston: Peoples' Rights
Craig Scott (ed.), Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation
Stephen Shute and A. P. Simester (eds.), Criminal Law Theory: Doctrines of the General Part
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Sex Equality
Donald Zillman, Alastair Lucas and George (Rock) Pring (eds.), Human Rights in Natural Resource Development: Public Participation in the Sustainable Development of Mining and Energy Resources     

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Book reviewed in this article: John Cartwright, Unequal Bargaining: A Study of Vitiating Factors in the Formation of Contracts Andrei Marmor, Interpretation and Legal Theory Hugh Collins, Justice in Dismissal: The Law of Termination of Employment Robert Post (ed), Law and the Order of Culture     

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Exclusive Dealing in the EEC: Regulation 67/67 Replaced . By Valentine Korah . Sentencing Reform : Guidance or Guidelines ? By Ken Pease & Martin Wasik . Legal Theory and Common Law . Edited by William Twining .     

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Strier, Franklin Reconstructing Justice: An Agenda for Trial Reform
Hunter, Rosemary; Ingleby, Richard and Johnstone, Richard (eds) Thinking About Law: Perspectives on the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law
Cotterrell, Roger Law's Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective
Hoskyns, Catherine Integrating Gender     

THE RULE OF LAW IN CORPORATE SOCIETY: NEUMANN,KIRCHHEIMER AND THE LESSONS OF WEIMAR

The Rule of Law : Political Theory and the Legal System in Modern Society . By Franz L. Neumann . Social Democracy and the Rule of Law . By Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann . Edited by Keith Tribe. Translated by Leena Tanner and Keith Tribe.     

Reviews

Thomas: Legal Frontiers Wellman: An Approach to Rights: Studies in the Philosophy of Law and Morals Allsop and Mulcahy: Regulating Medical Work: Formal and Informal Controls Mercuro and Medema: Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism Franck: Fairness in International Law and Institutions Nussbaum: Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life Posner: Law and Legal Theory in the UK and USA Montgomery: Health Care Law     

美国律师职业危机：制度变迁与理论解说

20世纪60年代以来,美国律师业一直在经历着一场深刻的变革。律师业的这场变革衍生出包括律师职业危机论在内的众多理论解说。美国律师职业危机实际上是因为垄断学派本身的理论解释与律师业急剧变迁的制度变革之间分离所带来的律师职业理论的危机,而不是律师业本身的危机。通过对这场危机的系统考察,可以进一步深化对职业制度和职业实践的理解,从而有助于理清我国律师业改革的方向。     

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A Theory of Justice . By John Rawls Legal Problems and the Citizen . By Brian Abel -Smith , Michael Zander and Rosalind Brooke . Social Needs and Legal Action . By Pauline Morris , Richard White and Philip Lewis Justice in South Africa . By Albie Sachs . Sweet & Maxwell's European Community Treaties . Edited by Sweet & Maxwell's Legal Editorial Staff . A Source-book on French Law . System —Method —Outlines of Contract . By Otto Kahn -Freund , Claudine Lévy , Bernard Rudden . Droit Civil . By B. Starck . Human Rights and Europe : A Study of the Machinery of Human Rights Protection of the Council of Europe. By Ralph Beddard . Labour Law in Australia . By E. I. Sykes and H. J. Glasbeek The Australian Criminal Justice System . By Duncan Chappell and Paul Wilson . The Nigerian Penal System . By Alan Milner . The Legal System of Lesotho . By Vernon V. Palmer and Sebastian M. Poulter . Internationale Zuständigkeit . Entwurf eines Systems von Zuständigkeitsinteressen um zwischenstaatlichen Privatverfahrensrecht aufgrund rechtshistorischer, rechtsvergleichender und rechtspolitischer Betrachtungen. By Jochen Schröder League of Nations Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law , 1925–1928. Edited by Shabtai Rosenne . The Effectiveness of International Decisions . Edited by Stephen M. Schwebel . The Vietnam War and International Law . (Sponsored by the American Society of International Law.) Volume 3. Edited by Richard A. Falk . Population and Law . Edited by Luke T. Lee and Arthur Larson . International Migration Law . By Richard Plender . Legal Aspects of Family Planning in Indonesia . The Status of Refugees in International Law . By Atle Grahl -Madsen .     

What Is Legal Philosophy?

Abstract.  This paper argues that legal philosophy is a social practice undertaken by participants whose views have primacy over non-participants. This social practice is dynamic, constructive and based on understanding and explanation, in order to meet normative expectations. Legal Philosophy should include Legal Ontology, Legal Epistemology and a Theory of Justice. It is usually claimed that legal philosophy is a branch of a genus called philosophy, but there is no one single definition of it. In this paper it is argued that as a starting point there is a need to choose between three basic traditions in philosophy.     

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Constitutional Law . By S. A. de Smith . Constitutional Theory . By G. Marshall . Magna Carta . By Anne Palliser Sale and Hire Purchase . By J. K. Macleod . Williams and Mortimer on Executors , Administrators and Probate . Being the: 15th edition of Williams on Executors and the 3rd edition of Mortimer on Probate. By J. H. G. Sunnucks . Suspended Sentence . By Marc Ancel . The Future of the International Legal Order . Vol. 2: Wealth and Resources . Edited by Richard A. Falk and Cyril E. Black . Economic World Order ? By Georg Schwarzenberger .