BOOK REVIEWS

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LATINO HOMICIDE: IMMIGRATION, VIOLENCEAND COMMUNITY. Martinez, Jr., Ramiro. New York: Routledge, 2002, 204 pp., 9 chapters, ISBN: 0-415-93403-6. Reviewed by Ed Mu1ńoz

A LAW FOR THE LION: A TALE OF CRIME AND INJUSTICE IN THE BORDERLANDS. de la Garza, Beatriz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003, 142 pp., 5 chapters, ISBN: 0-292-70189-6. Reviewed by Ed Muńoz

UNDERSTANDING LATINO DELINQUENCY. Perez McCluskey, Cynthia. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2002. Reviewed by Ed Muńoz     

Insurance,the negligent solicitor and the disappointed beneficiary

LEGAL REALISM AT YALE 1927–1960. By Laura Kalman. [University of North Carolina Press, 1986. ISBN 0 8078 1677 9; 314 pp. (inc. index). £33.25.]

A LAMENT FOR THE LAW COMMISSION. by R. T. Oerton. [Countrywise Press Ltd. Hardback 117 pp. £13.50.]

PUBLIC ORDER—THE NEW LAW. By R. CARD. [Butterworths 1987. ISBN 0 406 50440 7.224 pp. £12.50 Gimp).]

PUBLIC ORDER—A GUIDE TO THE 1986 PUBLIC ORDER ACT. By J. Marston. [Fourmat 1987. ISBN 1 85190 024 1.189 pp.]

OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER. By A T. H. Smith. [Sweet &; Maxwell/Police Review 1987. ISBN 0 421 36580 3 326 pp. £14.95 (limp).]

PUBLIC ORDER LAW. By P. Thornton. [Financial Training 1987. ISBN 1 85185 040 6. 266 pp. £10.95 (limp).]

STUDIES IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. By Colin R. Munro. [Burterworths. 1987. 220 pp. ISBN 0406 26144 X]

BUSINESS LAW. By N. Savage and R. Bradgate. [Butterworths. 1987. xxx and 541 pp. inc. index.]

SEX, RACE AND THE LAW. By Jeanne Gregory. [Sage Publications. 1987. 216 pp. £7.95 (paperback).]

RAPE ON TRIAL. By Z. Adler. [Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1987. viii and 195 pp.]; RAPE AND THE LEGAL PROCESS. By J. Temkin. [Sweet &; Maxwell. 1987. xx and 221.]

MINORS: THE LAW AND PRACTICE. By Kenneth W. Pain. [Fourmat Publishing. 1987. xvii and 293 pp. (inc. index). £16.95 (paperback).]

COHABITATION: THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS. By Dawn Oliver [CCH Editions Limited. 1987. xvi and 140 pp. (inc. index). £12.50 (paperback).]

CRIMINAL LAW IN A NUTSHELL. By Marianne Giles. [Sweet &; Maxwell. 1987. 121 pp. £3.95.]

GLOAG AND HENDERSON'S INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF SCOTLAND. By A. B. Wilkinson and W. A Wilson. [W. Green and Sons Ltd. 1987. clii and 1020 pp. (inc. index). £45.00.]

SCOTTISH CASES AND MATERIALS IN COMMERCIAL LAW. By Douglas J. Cuisine and Angelo D. M. Forte. [Butterworths. 1987. xxvi and 396 pp. (inc. index). £23.95.]     

Review essay: Confronting sexual exploitation in sport

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Spoilsports: Understanding and preventing sexual exploitation in sport C.H. Brackenridge London, Routledge, 2001. 304pp ISBN 0 419 25770 5 (hbk). £60.00, ISBN 0 419 25780 2 (pbk), £19.99

The Dome of Silence: Sexual harassment and abuse in sport S. Kirby, L. Greaves and O. Hanhivsky Halifax, NS, Fernwood Books/London, Zed Books, 2000, 175pp. ISBN 1 85649 963 4 (hbk) £36.95, 1 85649 962 6 (pbk), £12.95

Sexual Harassment in Sport: Issues, impact, and challenges K. Volkwein-Caplan and G. Sankaran Aachen, Germany, Meyer & Meyer, ISBN 1 84126 059 2, (pbk), £12.95, 126pp     

Book reviews and notes etc.

HOW TO STUDY LAW. By A. Bradney, V. Fisher, J. Masson, A. Neal and D. Newall. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1986. 237 pp. (inc. index) £5.95 (paperback); £9.50 (cloth).]

READING THE LAW: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL METHOD AND TECHNIQUES. By Peter Goodrich. [Basil Blackwell. 1986. xi and 229 pp. £27.50 (hardback); £9.50 (paperback).]

DIRECTION, OR PREPARATIVE TO THE STUDY OF THE LAW. By William Fulbeck. [Wildwood House. 1987. xviii, 12 and 255 pp. £6.95.]

CONCORD: FREE TEXT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. Version 3.0. By Bytesmiths Ltd. [Bytesmiths Ltd., Stoney Close, Cambridge Road, Ugley, Bishop's Stortford, Herts. 1986. £395 or £495 with full site licence]

HERACLES’ BOW: ESSAYS ON THE RHETORIC AND POETICS OF THE LAW. By James Boyd White. [University of Wisconsin Press. 1985. xviii and 251 pp. (inc. index). £22.50.]

PUBLIC LAW AND POLITICS: Edited by C. Harlow. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1986. 255 pp. £28.00 (hardback).]

THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS—PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES FOR THE CROWN PROSECUTOR. By G. Mansfield and J. Peay. [Tavistock. 1987. viii and 246 pp. £25.00 (cloth).]

POLICING INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. By Roger Geary. [Methuen. 1986. 171 pp. £5.95 (paperback).]

SEX SHOPS AND THE LAW. By Colin Manchester. [Gower. 1986. xx and 264 pp. (inc. appendices and index). £18.50.]

CIVIL LIABILITY STATUTES. By F. D. Rose. [Financial Training Ltd. 1987. x and 150 pp. £8.50 (paperback).]

TORT. Fourth edition. By C. D. Baker. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1986. xxxii & 398 pp. £8.95 (paperback).]

AN OUTLINE OF THE LAW OF AGENCY. Second edition. By B. S. Markesinis and R. J. C. Munday. [Butterworths. 1986. xxi and 255 pp. £13.50 (hardback); £8.50 (paperback).]

CASES IN THE LAW OF BANKING 1983–1985. Second edition. By P. E. Smart. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1986. 95 pp. £6.95 (paperback).]

MAUDSLEY AND BURN'S LAND LAW CASES AND MATERIALS. Fifth edition‐. By E. H. Burn. [Butterworths. 1986. xcii and 865 pp. plus index. £21.95 (soft cover); £32.00 (hard cover).]

CASES AND STATUTES ON LAND LAW. Second edition. By E. L. G. Tyler. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1986. xxvii and 335 pp. £10.95 (paperback).]

DISCUSSIONS IN BIOETHICS. VHS Videos. [Educational Media International, 25 Boileau Road, London W5 3AL. £75.00 (sale); £20.00 (rental).]     

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)     

Reviews: Editorial commentary

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Home Truths about Child Sexual Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice: A reader Catherine Itzin (4) Routledge, London, 2000. ISBN0415 15261 5 (hbk) f55.0O/f18.990415 152623 (pbk) £18.99

Child Sexual Assault: Feminist perspectives Pat Cox, Sheila Kenhaw andJoy Trotter (eds) Palgrave, London. 2000. 248pp. ISBN 0 333 77153 2. (hbk) £45.00

Athletes and Acquaintance Rape Jeffrey R Benedict Sage (Violence Against Women Series). London, 1998. 120pp ISBN 0 7619 0966 4 (hbk) f47.00 / 0 7619 0967 2 (pbk) £19.00

Whistleblowing in the Social Services: Public accountability and professional practice Geoffrey Hunt (ed.), Foreword by Allan Levy, QC Edward Arnold, London, 1998. 278pp. ISBN 0 340 65245 4 (pbk) £18.99     

Narrative and normativity: Comments on The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial

The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia. Donald J. Kagay (Trans. and ed.). Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. xii + 140pp. (inc. Index). £28.40 hb/£12.95 pb. ISBN 0 8122 3256 9/0 8122 1535 4.

Medieval Canon Law. James A. Brundage. London and New York. 1995. Longman, xii + 260 pp. (inc. Index). £12.99 pb. ISBN 0 582 09356 2.

Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. J. Kermode and G. Walker (eds.). London. 1994. UCL Press, viii + 216pp. (incl. Index). £35 hb/£11.95 pb. IBSN 1 85728 140 3/1 85728 141 1.

Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825–1875. R.W. Kostal. Oxford. 1994. Clarendon Press, xii + 417 pp. (incl. Index) £45 hb. ISBN 0 19 825671 X.

Victorian Insolvency; Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding‐Up in Nineteenth‐Century England. V. Markham Lester. Oxford. 1995. Clarendon Press, xiii + 354 pp. (incl. Index). £40 hb. ISBN 0 19 820518 X.     

BOOK REVIEW

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A RAINBOW OF GANGS: STREET CULTURE IN THE MEGA-CITY. James Diego Vigil. University of Texas Press, 2002, 213 pp., 11 chapters, ISBN: 0-292-78748-0. Reviewed by Shaun L. Gabbidon.     

Recent developments

THE COMPANY EXECUTIVE AND THE LAW, by David Springfield, published by Heinemann. (1970) at £1. 15s. (£3. 3s., hardback). 296 pp.

CONTRACT, by F. R. Davies, published by Sweet and Maxwell (Concise College Texts series) (1970) at £1. 1s. (paperback), 233 pp.

LABOUR ORGANISATIONS: A MACRO AND MICRO SOCIOLOGICAL COMPARISON, by Mark Van de Vall, published by Cambridge University Press (1970) at £2. 15s. 257 pp.

THE LAW OF TORT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, by Mary Bell Cairns, published by Shaw &; Sons (2nd. ed., 1970) at £4. 4s. 272 pp.

INDUSTRIAL LAW NOTEBOOK, by Norman M. Selwyn, published by Butterworths (1970) at 12s. 81 pp.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE LAW OF MEETINGS by R.S. Sim, published by Butterworths at 10s. 80 pp.

DECISION ON EUROPE, by Derek H. Hene, published by Jordan &; Sons (1970) at £2. 15s. 224 pp.     

Book reviews and notes

TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES: CASES AND MATERIALS. By R. H. Maudsley and E. H. Burn. [Butterworths. 1972. 660 pp. (inc. index). £6.60 (cased); £4.60 (limp).]

LABOUR AND THE LAW. By O. Kahn‐Freund. [Stevens. 1972. xii + 270 pp. £1.80.]

PRINCIPLES OF LABOUR LAW. By R. W. Rideout. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. xxxii+422 pp. £5.25 (hardback); £3.50 (paperback).]

BRITISH GOVERNMENT TODAY. By B. Jones. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. xv and 236 pp. £2.00 (hardback); £1.00 (paperback).]

THE LAW OF THEFT. By J. C. Smith. Second edition. [Butterworths. 1972. xxvii and 241 pp. (inc. index). £5.50 (hardback); £3.00 (limp).]

THE LAW OF TORTS. By John G. Fleming. Fourth edition. [Law Book Co. 1971. xlviii and 670 pp. (inc. index). £7.25 (bound); £4.75 (paperback).]

STREET ON TORTS. Fifth edition. [Butterworths. 1972. lxxxvii and 524 pp. (inc. index). £3.20 (paperback).]

TORT. By C. D. Baker. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. xxii and 295 pp. (inc. index). £2.50 (hardback); £1.60 (paperback).]

SELECTED STATUTES FOR BAR EXAMINATIONS: I. [Butterworths. 1972. vii and 360 pp. £2.00.]

LEGAL PROBLEMS OF AN ENLARGED EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. Edited by M. E. Bathurst and others. [Stevens & Sons. 1972. xix and 369 pp. (inc. index). £6.75.

VAT—A CONCISE GUIDE. By H. H. Mainprice. [VAT Planning & Publications Ltd., Crusader House, 14 Pall Mall, London. 1972. vii and 67 pp. 45p.]

CLARKE HALL AND MORRISON'S LAW RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS. By L. Goodman. Eighth edition. [Butterworths. 1972. xlix and 1366 pp. (inc. index). £12.00 (£9.00 for members of B.A.S.W. and N.A.P.O.).]

INTRODUCTION TO ADMINISTRATIVE LAW. By David Foulkes. Third edition. [Butterworths. 1972. xx and 290 pp. (inc. index). £4.20 (hardback) ; £2.80 (paperback).]

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LAW. By Philip S. James. Eighth edition. [Butterworths. 1972. xxxv and 482 pp. (inc. index). £3.00 (hardback); £1.20 (paperback).]

INTRODUCTION TO JURISPRUDENCE. By Lord Lloyd of Hampstead. Third edition. [Stevens. 1972. xxxix and 873 pp. (inc. index). £5.00 (paperback).]

THE MAKING OF BUSINESS CONTRACTS. By A. Harding Boulton. Second edition. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. xiv and 220 pp. (inc. index). £3.50 (hardbound) ; £1.95 (paperback).]

INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL LAW. By Rupert Cross and Philip Asterley Jones. Seventh edition. [Butterworths. 1972. xlix and 430 pp. £4.20 (cased) ; £2.60 (limp).]

ESSAYS ON CRIMINAL LAW IN NEW ZEALAND. Edited by R. S. Clark. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1971. 224 pp. £3.50 (hardback); £2.50 (paperback).]

EXECUTORSHIP LAW AND ACCOUNTS. By J. N. R. Taylor. [Macdonald & Evans. 1972. xv and 159 pp. (inc. index). 55p.]

PHIPSON'S MANUAL OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE. By D. W. Elliot. Tenth edition. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. xxxvi and 338 pp. (inc. index). £3.50 (hardbound); £2.75 (paperback).]

STROUD'S JUDICIAL DICTIONARY. VOLUME 2, D.‐H. By John S. James. Fourth edition. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. xvi and 601 pp. £10.50.]

A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW. By Sir William Holdsworth. Volume XVII: General Index. By John Burke. [Methuen /Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. 551 pp. £8.00.]

CLERK AND LINDSELL ON TORTS: THIRD CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. £1.75.]

WHILLAN'S TAX TABLES AND TAX RECKONER 1972–73. By George Whillans. Twenty‐fifth edition. [Butterworths. 1972. 23 pp. 70p.]

CASEBOOK ON COMPANY LAW. By R. S. Sim. Third Edition. [Butterworths. 1971. 382 pp. £1.60.]

THE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION OF MAGISTRATES. By Brian Harris. [Justice of the Peace Ltd. 1969. xlviii and 365 pp. (inc. index). 1970 Supplement, x and 38 pp. £6.]

BUTTERWORTHS’ MATRIMONIAL LAW STATUTES. [Butterworths. 1971. 547 and (index) 20 pp. £4.20 (casebound); £2.20 (limp).]

DIVORCE AND FAMILY LAW WITH TEST QUESTIONS IN A NUTSHELL. By L. McGuiness and G. O'Connor. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1971. xiii and 103 pp. 75p.]

THE COMPANY DIRECTOR. By Alfred Read. Fourth Edition. [Jordan & Sons Ltd. 1971. xxxi and 232 pp. £2.10.]

JURISPRUDENCE IN A NUTSHELL. By Charles Conway. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1971. vii and 69 pp. 60p.]

CONVEYANCING WITH TEST QUESTIONS IN A NUTSHELL. By Peter Kleiner. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1971. xiii and 134 pp. 80p.]

LAW AS FACT. By Karl Olivecrona. Second Edition. [Stevens & Sons. 1971. vii and 320 pp. £3.75.]

HANBURY'S MODERN EQUITY: SUPPLEMENT TO THE NINTH EDITION. By R. H. Maudsley. [Stevens & Sons. 1971. 14 pp. 25p.]

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO APPEALS IN CRIMINAL COURTS. By Peter Morrish and Ian McLean. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1971. xxxv and 153 pp. (inc. index and appendices) £2.25.]

BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING STANDARD FORMS: FIRST SUPPLEMENT. By I. N. Duncan Wallace. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1970. 39 pp. 50p.]

EVIDENCE. By Richard Clayton. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1970. xii and 72 pp. 60p.]     

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

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MATERNAL JUSTICE: MIRIAM VAN WATERS AND THE FEMALE REFORM TRADITION, by Estelle B. Freedman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Reviewed by Dorothy Moses Schulz.

TORONTO'S GIRL PROBLEM: THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF THE CITY, 1880-1930, by Carolyn Strange. Toronto, Can.: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Reviewed by Dorothy Moses Schulz.

THE “GIRL PROBLEM”: FEMALE SEXUAL DELINQUENCY IN NEW YORK, 1900-1930, by Ruth M. Alexander. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Reviewed by Dorothy Moses Schulz.     

Mortgaging the future

STUDENT WORKBOOK AS LAW: SOURCES OF LAW AND LAW MAKING By Chris Turner and Leon Riley [Philip Allan, 2006, 52 pp., £3.50 (paperback)]

A LEVEL LAW REVIEW [Philip Allan, Vol. 1, Nos. 1–3, 2005–6, £19.95 for 3 issues]

THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM By Jacqueline Martin [Key Facts series, Hodder Arnold, 2005, 2nd edn., 132 pp., £5.99 (paperback)]

TORT By Chris Turner [Key Facts series, Hodder Arnold, 2005, 2nd edn., 140 pp., £5.99 (paperback)]

CONTRACT LAW By Chris Turner [Key Facts series, Hodder Arnold, 2005, 2nd edn., 131 pp., £5.99 (paperback)]

CONTRACT LAW By Robert Duxbury [Nutshells, Sweet &; Maxwell, 2006, 7th edn., 162 pp., £7.00 (paperback)]

AS LAW By Catherine Elliott and Frances Quinn [Pearson, 2006, 3rd edn., xxviii + 642 pp., £21.99 (paperback)]

CHILDREN: THE MODERN LAW By Andrew Bainham [Jordan Publishing Ltd, 2005, 3rd edn., 811 pp., £30.00 (paperback)]

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW By Merris Amos [Hart Publishing, 2006, 1st edn., 503 pp., £22.00 (paperback)]

CRIME AND JUSTICE: 1750–1950 By Barry Godfrey and Paul Lawrence [Willan Publishing, 2005, xi + 208 pp., £40.00 (hardback) £17.99 (paperback)]

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN ENGLAND AND WALES By M. Davies, H Croall and J. Tyrer [Pearson Education Ltd, 2005, 3rd edn., 477 pp., £25.99 (paperback)]

A FAIR HEARING? ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS By Stephen Shute, Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal (eds.) [Willan Publishing, 2005, 160 pp., £35.00 (hardback)]

PRISON READINGS: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO PRISONS AND IMPRISONMENT By Yvonne Jewkes and Helen Johnston [Willan Publishing, 2006, xi + 305 pp., £50 (hardback); £24 (paperback)]

CAPTURED BY THE MEDIA: PRISON DISCOURSE IN POPULAR CULTURE EDITED By Paul Mason [Willan Publishing, 2006, 240 pp., £40.00 (hardback) £18.99 (paperback)]

TRANSFORMING INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE, RETRIBUTIVE AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN THE TRIAL PROCESS By Mark Findlay and Ralph Henham [Willan Publishing, 2005, 391 pp., £40.00 (hardback)]

WARRANTIES IN MARINE INSURANCE By Baris Soyer [Cavendish Publishing Limited, 2nd edn., 2005, 312 pp., £90.00 (hardback)]

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CIVIL LITIGATION By Robert Hill, Helen Wood and Suzanne Fine [Jordans, 2005, 2nd edn., 591 pp., £45 (paperback)]

TRUSTS AND EQUITY By Gary Watt [Oxford University Press, 2006, 2nd edn., 559 pp., £27.99 (paperback)]

TRUSTS TEXTBOOK By Gary Watt [Oxford University Press, 2006, 2nd edn., 459 pp., £26.99 (paperback)]

PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE INSOLVENCY LAW By Roy Goode [Sweet &; Maxwell, 2005, 3rd edn., 673 pp., £40.00 (paperback)]

LAND LAW By Diane Chappelle [Pearson Longman, 2006, 7th edn., 505 pp., £30.99 (paperback)]

MODERN LAND LAW By Martin Dixon [Cavendish Publishing, 2005, 5th edn., 456 pp., £27.95 (paperback)]

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW By S. Bell &; D. McGillivray [Oxford University Press, 2006, 6th edn., 978 pp., £27.99 (paperback)]

SPORTS LAW By Simon Gardiner et al. [Cavendish Publishing, 2006, 3rd edn., 724 pp., £39.00 (paperback)]     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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.     

BOOK REVIEW

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RACE, CLASS, GENDER AND JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES. Reasons, Charles E., Darlene J. Conley, and Julius Debro (Eds.). Allyn and Bacon Publishers, 297pp., ISBN: 0-205-27884-5. Reviewed by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall.     

Industrial safety: The political challenge∗

The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine. JAMES GORDLEY. Oxford. 1991. The Clarendon Press. 263 pp. £35 hb; £16.99 pb.

A History of the Anglo‐American Common Law of Contract. KEVIN M. TEEVEN. New York. 1990. Greenwood Press, xii + 382 pp.

Legal Fiction: Law in the Novels of Nineteenth Century Women Novelists. KATHLEEN LONCAR. London. 1995. Minerva Press. 266pp. (inc Index). £7.99 pb. ISBN 1 85863 668 X.

Adversaria: Literature and Law. E.J. HINZ, T. ANDERSON AND A. McGILLIVRAY (eds.) [Special Issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol.27 no.4 ‐ December 1994] Winnipeg. 1994. University of Manitoba, ix + 230 pp. $20 pb. ISSN 0027–1276.

The Independence of the Judiciary. The View from the Lord Chancellor's Office. ROBERT STEVENS. Oxford. 1993. Clarendon Press, xii + 221 pp (incl. index). £27.50 hb. ISBN 0 19 825815 1

Marriage, Property and Law in Late Imperial Russia. WILLIAM G. WAGNER. Oxford. 1994. Clarendon Press. xiv+413pp (incl. Index) £45 hb. ISBN 0–19–820447–7.     

The hidden origins of enorm lesion

Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy and Reform in Greek Penology. Trevor J. Saunders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1991. xvii + 414pp. (incl. Indexes). £50 hb. ISBN 0 19 814893 3.

Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian. Susan Treggiari. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1991. xv + 578pp. (incl. Indexes). £65 hb. ISBN 0 19 814890 9.

Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome. Edited by Beryl Rawson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xiv + 252pp. (incl. Index). £35 hb. ISBN 0 19 814918 2.

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. J.A. Brundage. University of Chicago Press, 1987. xxiv + 674pp. (incl. Index). £21.50 pb. ISBN 0 226 07784 5.

Church Courts, Sex and Marriage, in England, 1570–1640. M. Ingram. Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 412pp. (incl. Index). £45 hb. ISBN 0 521 386551.

The Medieval Canon Law. Teaching, Literature and Transmission. (The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography: 1987–1988). Dorothy M. Owen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 82pp. £25 hb. ISBN 0 521 39313 9.

Notaries Public in England since the Reformation. C.W. Brooks, R.H. Helmholz and P.G. Stein. Norwich: The Erskine Press for the Society of Public Notaries of London, 1991. ix + 148pp. (incl. Index). £60.00 hb. £29.95 pb. ISBN 1 85297 0340.

The Common Law and English Jurisprudence 1760–1850. Michael Lobban. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xvi + 315pp. (incl. Index). £35.00 hb. ISBN 019 825293 5.

Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725. Robert B. Shoemaker. Cambridge: The University Press, 1991. xxviii + 352pp. (incl. Index). £40/$64.50 hb. ISBN 0 521 40082 1.

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Linebaugh. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1991. xxvii + 484pp. (incl. Index). £25 hb. ISBN 0 713 99045 7.

American Jurisprudence 1870–1970: A History. James Herget. Houston, Texas: Rice University Press, 1990. x + 367pp. (incl. Index.) $35.00hb. ISBN 0 89256 305 0.

Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jarhunderten. G. Kleinheyer and J. Schröder. Heidelberg: C.F. Muller, 1989. 415pp. (incl. Index.) DM 34.80 pb.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 1. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxi + 648 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 498.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 2, 1 Teil. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxxi + 772 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 598.     

Of caterpillars and butterflies: The introduction of metamorphosis at the UWA law school

CENTRAL ISSUES IN JURISPRUDENCE: JUSTICE, LAW AND RIGHTS By Nigel E. Simmonds [Sweet and Maxwell, 2002, 2nd ed., 338 pp., £16.95 (paperback)]

JUSTICE, HUMANITY AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER By Ian Ward [Ashgate, 2003, 192 pp., £50 (hardback)]

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION By Sionaidh Douglas Scott [Longman, 2002, xlx + 533 pp., £29.99 (paperback)]

THE ENGLISH LEGAL PROCESS By Terence Ingman [Oxford University Press, 2002, 9th ed., 624 pp., £19.99 (paperback)]

SMITH, BAILEY &; GUNN ON THE MODERN ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM By S. H. Bailey, J. P. L. Ching, M. J. Gunn and D. C. Ormerod [Sweet and Maxwell, 2002, 9th ed., 1,387 pp., £30.00 (paperback)]

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CIVIL LITIGATION By Robert Hill, Helen Wood and Suzanne Fine [Jordans, 2003, 571 pp., £45 (paperback)]

PARTNERSHIP LAW By G. Morse [Blackstone Press, 2001, 5th ed., 280 pp., £14.95 (paperback)]

EMPLOYMENT LAW By Malcolm Sargeant [Longman, 2003, 2nd ed., 499 pp., £26.99 (paperback)]

THE LAW OF CONTRACT By J. C. Smith [Sweet and Maxwell, 2002, 4th ed., 268 pp., £15.95 (paperback)]

CONTRACT LAW By Catherine Elliott and Frances Quinn [Pearson Education, 2003, 4th ed., 353 pp., £17.99 (paperback)]

AQA LAW IN FOCUS: AS LEVEL By Simon Jackson [Causeway Press, 2003, First impression, 233 pp., £12.95 (paperback)]

TORT LAW By Chris Turner [Hodder and Stoughton, 2003, 1st ed., 232 pp., £13.99 (paperback)]

LOOKING AT CRIMINAL LAW By Chris Turner [Hodder and Stoughton, 2003, 1st ed., 114 pp., £9.99 (paperback)]

CRIMINAL LAW By Alan Reed and Peter Seago [Sweet and Maxwell, 2002, 2nd ed., lvii + 597 pp., £22.95 (paperback)]

CRIMINAL LAW: DOCTRINE AND THEORY By William Wilson [Longman, 2003, 2nd ed., lii + 640 pp., £29.99 (paperback)]

BURGLARY By R. I. Mawby [Willan Publishing, 2001, x + 213 pp., £40.00 (hardback), £16.99 (paperback)]

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY By David Bainbridge [Longman, 2002, 5th ed., 710 pp., £34.99 (paperback)]

PARRY AND CLARK: THE LAW OF SUCCESSION By Roger Kerridge Assisted by A. H. R. Brierley [Sweet and Maxwell, 2002, 11th ed., 671 pp., £29.95 (paperback)]

CONSTRUCTION LAW By John Uff [Sweet and Maxwell, 2002, 8th ed., 536 pp., £23.95 (paperback)]

WATER POLLUTION AND WATER QUALITY LAW By William Howarth and Donald McGillivray [Shaw and Son Publishers, 2001, 1212 pp., £85.00 (hardback)]

PROPERTY LAW By Roger J. Smith [Longman, 2003, 4th ed. lxviii + 617 pp., £29.99 (paperback)]

PROPERTY LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS By Roger J. Smith [Longman, 2003, 2nd ed. lv + 836 pp., £33.99 (paperback)]

HOUSING LAW CASEBOOK By Nic Madge [Legal Action Group, 2003, 3rd ed., 1,139 pp., £39.00 (paperback)]

LEGAL MATERIALS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS By Hugh Brayne and Graeme Broadbent [Oxford University Press, 2002, 522 pp., £24.99 (paperback)]     

Book reviews

D. Leebart (ed.), The Future of Software, The MIT Press, 1995. Hardcover, £19.95, 300 pp, ISBN 0‐262‐12184‐0

David Bainbridge, Software Copyright Law, 2nd edn, Butterworths, 1994. Softcover £35.00, 272 + xvi pp. ISBN 0‐406‐04841‐X

Andrew Christie, Integrated Circuits and Their Contents: International Protection, Sweet & Maxwell, 1995. Hardcover, £85.00. ISBN 0‐421‐48380‐6

S. White, S. Bate and T. Johnson, Satellite Communications in Europe: Law & Regulation, 2nd edn, FT Tax and Law, 1996. Hardcover, £135.00 xlvi + 456 pp. ISBN 0‐752‐002119‐8

A. Valente, Legal Knowledge Engineering: a Modelling Approach. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 30, IOS Press, 1995. Softcover, £52.00, 227 pp. ISBN 90‐5199‐23‐0

Professor Christopher Arnold, Outsourcing Contracts, Pearson Professional, 1995. 114 pp.