REVIEWS: IS IT SIMPLE TO BE A MARXIST IN LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY?1

Book reviewed in this article: Law and Economic Organization : A Comparative Study of Preindustrial Societies Marital Violence : The Community Response . By Margaret Borkowski , Mervyn Murch and Val Walker International Maritime Law Conventions . By Nagendra Singh F. E. Smith —First Earl of Birkenhead . By John Campbell     

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Book reviewed in this article: FOREVER AMBER?; Law and Administration . By C. Harlow and R. Rawlings . Murder into Manslaughter . By Susanne Dell . The Economic Approach to Law . Child Custody : A Study of Families after Divorce . By Deborah Anna Luepnitz . The Protection of Children : State Intervention and Family Life . By Robert Dingwall , John Eekelaar and Topsy Murray .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Moral Thinking . By R. M. Hare . After Virtue . By Alasdair Mac Intyre . Trade Unions , The Labour Party and the Law : A Study of the Trade Union Act 1913. By K. D. Ewing . Rules and Processes : The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context . By John L. Comaroff and Simon Roberts . Receiving Juvenile Justice . By Howard Parker , Maggie Casburn and David Turnbull . Judicial Review of the Death Penalty . By David Pannick . Law for the World Ocean . By Gerard G. Mangone . Anti -Dumping Law in a Liberal Trade Order . By Richard Dale .     

Ethics and the Physician-Patient Relationship

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Getting Rid of Patients: Contradictions in the Socialization of Physicians . By Terry Mizrahi
Physicians and Social Change . By John Colombotos and Corinne Kirchner
Changing Values in Medicine . Edited by Eric J. Cassell and Mark Siegler
Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine: Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum . By Harmon L. Smith and Larry R. Churchill
Physician—Patient Decision-Making: A Study in Medical Ethics . By Douglas N. Walton
With Dignity: The Search for Medicare and Medicaid . By Sheri I. David
The Dismissal of Students with Mental Disorders. Legal Issues, Policy Considerations, and Alternative Responses .
Courtroom Toxicology . By Marshall Houts, Randall C. Baselt, and Robert H. Cravey     

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Book reviewed in this article: Parry and Clark : The Law of Succession , 7th edition by J. B. Clark White Collar Crime . By G. Geis and R. Meier (revised edition) Worker Participation in Europe . By J. R. Carby -Hall Compensation for Unemployment . By John Mesher Unemployment Insurance Benefits . A Study of Administrative Procedure in the Unemployment Insurance Commission prepared for the Law Reform Commission of Canada by Pierre Issalys and Gaylord Watkins Labour Disputes and Unemployment Insurance Benefits in Canada and England . By M. A. Hickling European Studies in Law : Volume 1. Comparative Conflict of Laws : Selected Essays, Volume 1. By R. H. Graveson European Studies in Law : Volume 2: One Law : On Jurisprudence and the Unification of Law : Selected Essays, Volume II. By R. H. Graveson Consumer Credit Legislation . By R. Goode Consumer Credit Control . By F. Bennion Encyclopedia of Consumer Credit Law . By A. G. Guest and M. G. Lloyd     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government . By Archibald Cox . Judicial Politics in West Germany: A Study of the Federal Constitutional Court . By Donald P. Kommers . An Outline of the Law of Contract . By G. H. Treitel . Foundations of the Law of Tort . By Glanville Williams and B. A. Hepple . The English Law of Torts —A Comparative Introduction . By R. W. M. Dias and B. S. Markesinis . The “Conflicts ” Process : Jurisdiction and Choice in Private International Law . By David C. Jackson . Family Law and Litigation in Basotho Society . By Sebastian Poulter . Essays on the Law of International Trade . Hague -Zagreb Colloquium . Taxation for Executors and Trustees . Fourth Edition by A. R. Mellows .     

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Book reviewed in this article: he Judicial Process : An Introductory Analysis of the Courts of the United States, England and France. Third edition Revised and Enlarged. By Henry J. Abraham . The American Judicial Tradition . By G. Edward White . Political Questions in the Courts . By Yaacov S. Zemach . How to do Things with Rules . By William Twining and David Miers . Toward Equal Justice : A Comparative Study of Legal Aid in Modern Societies . By Mauro Capelletti , James Gordley and Earl Johnson Jr . Principles of Company Law . By H. A. J. Ford . The Regulation of Takeovers and Mergers . By Paul Davies . Banks and Banking Law in Ceylon . By Dr. W. S. Weerasooria . Appunti di Diritto del Lavoro . By Edoardo Ghera . Superior Orders in National and International Law . By L. C. Green . The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple 1602–1603. Edited by R. P. Sorlien .     

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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: Judicial Administration : The American Experience . By Delmar Karlen The Law and Practice of Banking . Volume 1: Banker and Customer . By J. Milnes Holden, ph.d . Cheques in Law and Practice . By M. S. Parthasarathy The Law of Succession . By A. R. Mellows Quantum of Punishment in Criminal , Law in India . By Kirpal Singh Chhabra Phipson on Evidence . Eleventh edition. By John H. Buzzard , Roy D. Amlot and Stephen Mitchell . The South African Law of Evidence . Second edition. By L. H. Hoffman Ombudsman Papers : American Experience and Proposals . By Stanley V. Anderson . Le Contrôle Judicaire de L'Administration au Québec . By René Dussault . L'Enquête Publique en Angleterre . By Jean -Luc Boussard Comparative Administrative Law . By the Honourable Mr . Justice Durga Das Basu The Civil Law Tradition . By John Henry Merryman . The Antitrust Laws of the U.S.A.: A Study of Competition Enforced by Law . Second edition. By A. D. Neale Legal Effects of United Nations Resolutions . By Jorge Castañeda . Studies in International Adjudication . By R. P. Anand     

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Book reviewed in this article: Cases and Materials on Family Law . By Peter Seago and Alastair Bissett -Johnson . The Law of Habeas Corpus . By R. J. Sharpe . Industrial Relations and the Limits of Law . The Industrial Effects of the Industrial Relations Act 1971. By Brian Weeks , Michael Mellish , Linda Dickens and John Lloyd . Dismissal , Redundancy and Job Hunting . Edited by Edith Rudinger . Modern Employment Law . By Michael Whincup . Industrial Relations, ***a Study in Conflict . By Bruce M. Cooper and A. F. Bartlet . Land Law and Registration . By S. Rowton Simpson . Whiteman and Wheatcroft on Income Tax . Second edition. By Peter G. Whiteman and David C. Milne . Introduction to Negotiable Instruments . By O. Mc Loughlin . The Sociology of Law and Order . By Lynn Mc Donald .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Law of Persons and the Family . By P. Q. R. Boberg Government and Industry . The Provision of Financial Assistance to Industry and its Control. By Gabrielle Ganz The Composition of Legislation : Legislative Forms and Precedents . Second edition, revised 1976. By Elmer A. Driedger Legislative Drafting : A New Approach . By Sir William Dale Reallocation of Property on Divorce . By Kevin J. Gray Family Law . By Olive Stone Family Law in the Republic of Ireland . By A. J. Shatter The Courts and Social Policy . By Donald L. Horowitz Freedom and the Court . By Henry J. Abraham Attorney's Guide to Restitution . By Graham Douthwaite Legal Problems of Caribbean Integration . By Hans J. Geisner , Pamela Alleyne and Carroll Gajraj Freedom in the Caribbean : A Study in Constitutional Change . By Sir Fred Phillips The Constitutional Law of Jamaica . By Lloyd G. Barnett Diplomatic Law . By Eileen Denza Constitutional Law of India . By H. M. Seervai , Second edition Judicialism in Commonwealth Africa . By B. O. Nwabueze Labor and the Constitution 1972–1973. Edited by Gareth Evans Charlesworth on Negligence . Sixth edition. By R. A. Percy Unmet Need : The Case of the Neighbourhood Law Centre . By A. Byles and P. Morris Liberty , Law and Justice . By Sir Norman Anderson The Liabilities of Office : Indemnification and Insurance of Corporate Officers and Directors . By Michael A. Schaeftler Constitutional Law of Canada . By Peter W. Hogg Social Anthropology and Law . Edited by Ian Hamnett The Lawyer and Justice . A collection of addresses to the Holdsworth Club of the University of Birmingham. Edited with an introduction by Professor B. W. Harvey     

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Improving the Protection of Human Rights: European Human Rights Convention in Domestic Law: A Comparative Study. By Andrew Z. Drzemczewski. [Oxford: O.U.P. 1983. xiv and 372 pp. inc. Bibliography, Tables and Index. Hardback: £30.] Improving the Protection of Human Rights: Evaluating Witness Evidence. Edited by S. M. A. Lloyd-Bostock and B. R. Clifford. [Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 1983. x and 305 pp. £19-95.] Improving the Protection of Human Rights: The Constitution, The Courts, and Human Rights. By Michael J. Perry. [New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1982. xi and 241 pp. £18-50.     

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Modern Trade Union Law. By Cyril Grunfeld. The Mental Element in Crime. By Glanville L. Williams. Cases on Criminal Law. By J. W. C. Turner and A. LI. Morbid Jealousy and Murder. A Psychiatric Study of Morbidly Jealous Murderers at Broadmoor. By Ronald Rae Mowat. The Accused: A Comparative Study. Edited and with an Introduction by J. A. Coutts, M.A., LL.B. The International Law of Fisheries. By Douglas M. Johnston. The New Nations in International Law and Diplomacy. Edited by William V. O'Brien. The Effect of Independence on Treaties. Edited by D. P. O'Connell. The Law of Hire-Purchase. By A. G. Guest. With Practice, Precedents and Pleadings by J. C. Tylor. Marine Cargo Claims. By W. Tetley, B.A., LL.L., of the Bars of Montreal and the Province of Quebec. Laytime. By Michael Brynmǒr Summerskill, M.A., B.C.L., A.C.I.I. Hudson's Building and Engineering Contracts. By I. N. Duncan Wallace, M.A. Land Drainage. By A. S. Wisdom. Outlines of Central Government. Including the judicial system in England. By John J. Clarke. Politics and Law. By Gerhard Leibholz, Justice Associate of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Professor at the University of Göttingen, Titular Professor at the College of Europe at Bruges. Potter and Monroe's Tax Planning (with precedents). By D. A. Shirley and Stephen J. L. Oliver. La Proliferazione delle Riviste Giuridiche in Italia dopo il 1945. Dati e opinioni a cura di Angelo Grisoli. The International Academy of International Law Report presented to the VII International Congress of Comparative Law. Parental Custody and Matrimonial Maintenance. A Symposium. B.I.I.C.L. The Law and Practice of Administration of Estates. Fourth edition. By D. Meyerowitz. Business Law: By Neil Merritt and Howard Clayton.     

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Historical Foundations of the Common Law . By S. F. C. Milsom, f.b.a. The Justice of the Peace . By Esther Moir . The Technique of Persuasion . By David Napley . Technique in Litigation . By Eric Morris . Salmond on the Law of Torts . 15th Edition by R. F. V. Heuston . Mistake and Misrepresentation : A Study in Contractual Principles. By S. J. Stoljar . Aspects of Comparative Commercial Law . Edited by Jacob S. Ziegel and William F. Foster . Instalment Credit . Edited by Professor A. L. Diamond, ll.m. Sentencing in a Rational Society . By Nigel Walker . African Penal Systems . Edited by Alan Milner . Criminal Law of East and Central Africa . Law in Africa No. 23. By J. J. R. Collingwood . Canadian Federalism : Myth or Reality . Edited by J. Peter Meekison . Public Administration in Canada : Selected Readings . Edited by A. M. Willms and W. D. K. Kernaghan . The British Tradition in Canadian Law . By the Hon . Mr . Justice Bora Laskin . Hamlyn Lecture 21st Series. Law Making in the International Civil Aviation Organization . By Thomas Buergenthal .     

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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.]     

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An Introduction to English Legal History . By J. H. Baker . The Human Body and the Law . A Medico -Legal Study . By David W. Meyers . More Essays in Legal Philosophy . Edited by Robert S. Summers . Local Prisons : The Crisis in the English Penal System . By Richard F. Sparks . Essays on Criminal Law in New Zealand . Edited by R. S. Clark . Lindley on Partnership . Thirteenth edition. By Ernest H. Scamell . Law of Partnership . By Charles D. Drake . Underhill's Principles of the Law of Partnership . Ninth edition by George Hesketh The Law of Partnerships and Voluntary Associations in South Africa . Second edition. By Brian Bamford . Documentary Letters of Credit . By E. P. Ellinger . The Extent of the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice . By Kenneth James Keith . International Law , National Tribunals and the Rights of Aliens . By Frank Griffith Dawson and Ivan L. Head .     

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Final Appeal —A Study of the House of Lords in its Judicial Capacity . By Louis Blom -Cooper and Gavin Drewry . Company Law and Capitalism . By Tom Hadden . Gore -Browne on Companies , 42nd edition. By A. J. Boyle The Protection of the Minority Shareholders in a Limited Company . By Hendrik Prins .     

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Legal Services in Birmingham . By Lee Bridges , Brenda Sufrin , Jim Whetton and Richard White . Legal Expense Insurance . By Werner Pfennigstorf . [Chicago: American Bar Foundation. 1975. ix and 117 pp. $3.00.] The Land and the Development , or The Turmoil and the Torment . By Sir Desmond Heap ; being the 27th series of the Hamlyn lectures. Compensation for Compulsory Purchase : A Comparative Study. Edited by J. F. Garner . Compensation for Compulsory Purchase Landlord and Tenant . By M. Partington Kemp and Kemp : The Quantum of Damages in Personal Injury and Fatal Accident Claims . By David A. Mc I. Kemp, q.c. , assisted by Derrick Turriff , John M. C. Moxom and Richard W. Seymour . Compensation and Rehabilitation . By Harold Luntz . Bullen an D Leake and Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings . Twelfth edition. By I. H. Jacob . Odgers ' Principles of Pleading and Practice . Twenty-first edition. By D. B. Casson and I. H. Dennis . The European Convention on Human Rights . By Francis G. Jacobs . The European Convention on Human Rights . By Fredr . Casteberg . European Community Law in the United Kingdom . By Lawrence Collins . Compendium of Case Law Relating to the European Communities 1973. By H. J. Eversen , H. Sperl , and J. A. Usher . Megarry's Manual of the Law of Real Property . Fifth ed. By P. V. Baker . A Practical Guide to Capital Transfer Tax . By Hilda Wilson .     

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Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: Trust and Power. By Niklas Luhmann, translated by H. Davis, J. Raffan and K. Rooney, edited by T. Burns and G. Poggi, with an introduction by G. Poggi. [Chichester: John Wiley. 1979. xix and 208pp., £16·55, hardback.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: The Differentiation of Society. By Niklas Luhmann, translated and introduced by S. Holmes and C. Larmore. [New York: Columbia University Press. 1982. xxxvii and 482pp., $35.00.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: The Reform of Civil Procedural Law and Other Essays in Civil Procedure. By Sir Jack I. H. Jacob, Q.C. [London: Sweet and Maxwell. 1982. 359 pp. £18·50.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: Law and Order: Arguments for Socialism. By Ian Taylor. [London: Macmillan. 1981. 234 pp. Hardcover: £15·00. Softcover: £4·95.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: The Ordering of Justice: A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process. By Richard V. Ericson and Patricia M. Baranek. [Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1982. xvi and 268 pp. (incl. index). No price stated.]     

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Precedent in English Law and Other Essays . By James Louis Montrose . Edited by H. G. Hanbury . Precedent in English Law . By Rupert Cross . Second Edition. Double Jeopardy . By Martin L. Friedland . The Making of a Criminal . By Patricia Elton Mayo . Constitutional Law in Northern Ireland : A Study in Regional Government . By Harry Calvert . The Vietnam War and International Law . (Sponsored by the American Society of International Law.) Edited by Richard A. Falk . Law and Vietnam . By Roger H. Hull and John C. Novogrod . Foreword by Myres S. Mc Dougal . The Middle East Crisis : Test of International Law . Edited by John W. Halderman . Law and Contemporary Problems Series, No. 11. Restatement of African Law . Kenya . Volume I: The Law of Marriage and Divorce . Volume II: The Law of Succession . By Eugene Cotran . General Editor, Professor A. N. Allott . The Law and Practice of Nigerian Wills , Probate and Succession . By Brian W. Harvey . Uganda , The Development of its Laws and Constitution . By H. F. Morris and James S. Read . Le Droit de la Famille en Afrique Noire et à Madagascar . Edited by Kéba M'Baye . Preface by Marc Ancel . Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law . Edited by Max Gluckman . Neutralization and World Politics . By Cyril E. Black and Others .