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Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Informal Justice , Vols. 1 and 2. Edited by Richard L. Abel . The Practical Skills of the Solicitor . By Laurence Shurman . Law and Social Enquiry : Case Studies of Research . Edited by Robin Luckham . Studies of Law in Social Change and Development, Volume 5. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham . Volumes 4 and 5 (October 1788 – December 1797). Edited by Alexander Taylor Milne , in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham , general editor, J. R. Dinwiddy . Law and the Moral Order . By W. D. Lamont . Rights , Justice and the Bounds of Liberty . By Joel Feinberg . Law and Practice of International Finance . By Philip Wood . Access to Justice and the Welfare State . Edited by Mauro Cappelletti . Neighbourhood Law Firms for the Poor . By Bryant Garth . The State as Defendant : Governmental Accountability and the Redress of Individual Grievances . By Leon Hurwitz . The Antitrust Laws of the U.S.A. 3rd edition. By A. D. Neale and D. G. Goyder .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Jury. By W. R. Cornish. Justice in the Welfare State. (The Hamlyn Lectures, Twentieth Series). By Harry Street. Race, Jobs and the Law in Britain. By Bob Hepple. Prayer in the Public Schools. By William K. Muir The Drafting of Legislation. By S. Namasivayam La Peine de Mort. By Paul Savey-Casard. Cases and Materials on Labour Law. By K. W. Wedderburn. Shipowners. By Nagendra Singh and Raoul Colinvaux. Central Banking Legislation: Volume II Europe. Selected and annotated by Hans Aufricht with the assistance of Jane B. Evenson The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1963: an Introduction. By Jerome Alan Cohen. The Idea of Justice. By Otto A. Bird. Das de facto-Regime im Völkerrecht. By Jochen Abr. Frowein. International Law and the Uses of Outer Space. By J. E. S. Fawcett. Introduction à L'Étude du Droit Polonais. By various authors, Editor, Stefan Rozmaryn. Sweet & Maxwell's Property Statutes. Edited by Sweet & Maxwell's Legal Editorial Staff. Advisory Editor: J. H. C. Morris. The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa. Vol. I, number 1 (March 1968)     

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Children Act 1975. By Hugh K. Bevan and Martin L. Parry. Ethics in the Practice of Law. By Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. of Yale Law School. Law and Morality. A Reader edited by Louis Blom-Cooper, q.c. and Gavin Drewry. [Duckworth, 1976. xvi, 265 pp. £4·95 paperback.] The Australian Criminal Justice System. Second edition. Edited by Duncan Chappell and Paul R. Wilson. Crime and Justice in Australia. Edited by David Biles. Landlord and Tenant Under the Rent Act 1977. By Philip H. Pettit. The Rent Act 1977. The Protection From Eviction Act 1977. By Julian T. Farrand. Compulsory Acquisition and Compensation. By Sir Frederick Corfield, q.c. and R. J. Carnwath, Barrister. Defamation. By Colin Duncan, q.c. and Brian Neill, q.c. with a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Lord Salmon. Litigation: Evidence and Procedure. By M. I. Aronson, N. S. Raeburn and N. S. Weinberg. Crown Court Practice: Trial. By Peter Fallon, q.c. The Law of Contracts. By S. M. Waddams. The Supreme Court Practice 1979. ABC Guide to the Practice of the Supreme Court. By Emlyn Williams. Family Law and Social Policy. By J. Eekelaar. State, Law and Family. By M. A. Glendon. The Law of Easements and Profits. By Paul Jackson. English and Continental Systems of Law. By Z. M. Nedjati, ll.b. The Civil Court in Action. By D. Barnard. Canadian Tort Law. By A. M. Linden. Studies in Canadian Tort Law. Edited by L. N. Klar Introduction to the Law of Torts. By G. L. Fridman The Law of Torts. Fifth Edition. By J. G. Fleming     

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Not in Feather Beds . By the Viscount Radcliffe, p. c ., g. b. e . Libel and Academic Freedom . By Arnold M. Rose . The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham : Vol. 1, 1752–76, Vol. 2, 1777–80. Edited by Timothy L. S. Sprigge . Directives and Norms . By Alf Ross . The Logic of Choice . By Gidon Gottlieb . The Origins of the Fifth Amendment . The Right Against Self -Incrimination . By Leonard W. Levy . A Basic History of the U.S. Supreme Court . By Bernard Schwartz . On Law and Justice . By Paul A. Freund . The Supreme Court and Administrative Agencies . By Martin Shapiro . The Law of the Individual According to Age and Sex . By Colin A. Coode, m. a . The British Cabinet . By John P. Mackintosh . Australian Federalism in the Courts . By Geoffrey Sawer , Professor of Law, Australian National University. Australian Federal Constitutional Law . By Colin Howard , Hearn Professor of Law in the University of Melbourne. The Law of Theft . By J. G. Smith . The Theft Act 1968. By Edward Griew . The Mentally Abnormal Offender . A Ciba Foundation Symposium. Edited by A. V. S. de Reuck and R. Porter . C.I.F. & F.O.B. Contracts . Volume 5 of British Shipping Laws . By David M. Sassoon . Labour Law : Old Traditions and New Developments . By Otto Kahn -Freund , Professor of Comparative Law, Oxford University. Foreword by H. W. Arthurs, Professor, Osgoode Hall, Law School of York University. Preface by Otto Lang, Dean of Law, University of Saskatchewan. Manual of Public International Law . Edited by Max Sorensen , Professor of International and Constitutional Law in Aarhus University. The First British Workmen 's Compensation Act 1897. By David G. Hanes . Modern Diplomatic Law . By Michael Hardy . Justice and the Legal System in the U.S.S.R. Soviet Studies Series, edited by Robert Conquest . The Legal System of Israel . By Henry E. Baker . The Relevance of International Adjudication . By Milton Katz , Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. The Critical Problems of the Indian Constitution . By The Hon . Mr . Justice P. B. Mukharji . Religion , Law and the State in India . By J. Duncan M. Derrett . Selected Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel . Volume III 1959/60. Edited by Asher Landau and Peter Elman .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Labour Law Today Labour Law : Cases and Materials . By Patrick Elias , Brian Napier and Peter Wallington Industrial Law . By I. T. Smith and Sir John C. Wood Law of Employment . By Norman M. Selwyn Modern Employment Law . 3rd edition. By Michael Whincup . The Employment Acts 1974–1980. By Charles D. Drake and Brian Bercusson Labour Law in Great Britain and Ireland to 1978. (A companion volume to a Bibliography of the Literature on British and Irish Labour Law.) By B. A. Hepple , J. Hepple , Paul O'Higgins and Paula Stirling Historical Foundations of the Common Law . Second edition by S. F. C. Milsom . Justice and Welfare in Divorce. By Mervyn Murch . Law and Legal Science: an Inquiry into the Concepts Legal Rule and Legal System . By J. W. Harris Research in Law and Sociology . Volume 2 (1979). Edited by Steven Spitzer . The Office of the Attorney -General in Ireland . By J. P. Casey . Gifts and Promises . By John P. Dawson . Taking the Fifth . By Mark Berger . A Source -Book on French Law . Second edition. By Sir Otto Kahn -Freund , Claudine Levy and Bernard Rudden . Constitutionalism in Asia : Asian Views of the American Influence . Edited by Lawrence Ward Beer . Landlord and Tenant . Second edition. By Martin Partington . The Impact of Marine Pollution . Edited by Douglas J. Cusine and John P. Grant . Law of Electronic Surveillance in Canada . By David Watt . The Child and the State . By Laurence D. Houlgate .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Lives of the Lord Chancellors , 1885–1940. By R. F. V. Heuston On Justice in Society . By Morris Ginsberg The Disinherited and the Law. By Dagobert D. Runes The Law of Quasi -Contract . By S. J. Stoljar , LL.B., LL.M., PH.D. Conveyancing Contracts , Conditions of Sale and Title . By J. T. Farrand , LL.B., Solicitor The Borderland of Criminal Justice . Essays in Law and Criminology. By Francis A. Allen , University Professor in the Law School at the University of Chicago Crime and the Community . A Survey of Penal Policy in New Zealand Völkerrecht . By Ignaz Seidl -Hohenveldern Federal Conflict of Interest Law . By Bayless Manning     

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Book reviewed in this article: Lawyers and the Public Interest . A study in Restrictive Practices . By Michael Zander In Search of Justice . Society and the Legal System . By Brian Abel -Smith and Robert Stevens Law Reform: the New Pattern , being the Lindsay Memorial Lectures for 1967. By the Hon . Mr . Justice Scarman Frontiers of Civil Liberties . By Norman Dorsen Freedom, the Individual and the Law . By Harry Street Human Rights in National and International Law . Edited by A. H. Robertson Comparative Constitutional Process : Cases and Materials. By Thomas M. Franck Palmer 's Company Law . Twenty-first Edition by Clive M. Schmitthoff, ll.d . Company Law . By Robert R. Pennington The Investor and the Law . By Robert R. Pennington . Harris 's Criminal Law . Twenty-first Edition. By Anthony Hooper . An Outline of the Law of Evidence . By Rupert Cross and Nancy Wilkins . African Women : Their Legal Status in South Africa . By H. J. Simons Family Law in Asia and Africa . Edited by J. N. D. Anderson Manual of German Law . Volume I: General Introduction, Civil Law. Second completély revised edition. By E. J. Cohn , assisted by W. Zdzieblo The Civil Practice of the Superior Courts in South Africa . Second Edition. Edited by Van Winsen and Thomas (in collaboration with A. C. Cilliers ) American Legal Realism . By Wilfrid E. Rumble , Jr Military Alliances and Neutrality in War and Peace . By Subrata Roy Chowdhury     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Justice Of Economics?; The Economics Of Justice. By Richard Posner. Law and the Economy. By Roger Bowles. Legal Right and Social Democracy. By Neil MacCormick. Labour Law and the Community: Perspectives for the 1980s. Edited by Lord Wedderburn of Charlton and W. T. Murphy. Compensation and Government Torts. By Carol Harlow. staatsrecht—völkerrecht—europarecht. festschrift für Hans-Jürgen Schlochauer zum 75. Geburtstag am 28. Marz 1981. Edited by Ingo von Münch.     

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Law Justice and Democracy : The Reith Lectures 1986. By Lord Mc Cluskey . Freedom of Association and Industrial Relations : A Comparative Survey . By Ferdinand von Prondzynski . English Law and Ethnic Minority Customs . By S. M. Poulter . The Noble Lie : A Rejoinder     

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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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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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Justice of the Peace . By Leo Page . Third Edition by R. M. Jackson and P. J. Halnan . The Contribution of English Law to South African Law ; and the Rule of law in South Africa . By The Hon . O. D. Schreiner . The Oxford Law School : 1850–1965. By F. H. Lawson . Romilly . By Patrick Medd . The Judge as Lawmaker . By Frederic Reynold . Administrative Law . By J. F. Garner . The Modern Law of Real Property . Tenth Edition. By PrOfessor G. C. Cheshire . Principles of Property Law . By D. C. Jackson . The Law of Boundaries and Fences . By V. Powell -Smith . A Guide to Law and Practice under the Criminal Justice Act 1967. By David Napley . The Treaty -Making Power in the Commonwealth of Australia . By Günther Doeker . Law in the Study of Business . By Derek Roebuck, m. a ., m. com ., Faculty of Commerce and Administration, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The Common Market and the Common Law , By John Temple Lang . Law and the Social Order . By Morris R. Cohen . The Foundations of Political Theory . Second edition. By H. R. G. Greaves .     

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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 .     

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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 .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Law and Practice Relating to Charities . By Hubert Picarda South African Company Law Through the Cases . Third Edition. By H. R. Hahlo Negotiated Justice : Pressures on Defendants to Plead Guilty . By John Baldwin and Michael Mc Conville Law , Morality and Society (Essays in Honour of H. L. A. Hart). Edited by P. M. S. Hacker and J. Raz Gore -Browne on Companies , 43rd edition     

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Book reviewed in this article: Images of Law . By Zenon Bankowski and Geoff Mungham The Law of Torts . Fifth edition. By John G. Fleming The Law of Defamation in Canada . By Jeremy S. Williams Principles of Labour Law . Second edition. By Roger W. Rideout The Machinery of Succession . By J. Gareth Miller Small Businesses . By Michael Chesterman The Law of Bankers ' Commercial Credits . Fifth edition. By H. C. Gutteridge and Maurice Megrah Banking Law and Practice in Australia . By W. S. Weerasooria and F. W. Coops Handbook of the Law of Antitrust . By Lawrence Anthony Sullivan Aspects of the Hague Rules . By Malcolm Alistair Clarke Magistrates ' Justice . By Pat Carlen Probation and After -Care : Its Development in England and Wales . by Dorothy Bochel Seven Lectures on Human Rights . By J. D. Van der Vyver     

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO—A FAMILY COURT REFLECTION

This article, adapted from the keynote address delivered at the Hofstra University School of Law Family Law Review Annual Banquet on March 24, 2011, focuses on the impact of the Family Law Review, the need to improve the stature of the family court, and shares excepts of letters written by members of the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children regarding their passion for working in the fields of child welfare and in the family court.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Memorising Politics Of Ancient History; Dialectic Of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism And Law. By Gillian Rose. The European Court of Justice: Practice and Procedure. By K. P. E. Lasok. The Dynamics of Aggression in Women's Prisons in England. By A. Mandaraka-Sheppard.     

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Book reviewed in this article: English and American Judges as Lawmakers . By L. L. Jaffe Venturing to do Justice . By R. E. Keeton The English Penal System in Transition . By J. E. Hall Williams . Labour Law . By J. B. Cronin and R. P. Grime . Foundations of Wage Policy . By K. S. V. Menon History of the Law of Charity 1532–1827. By Gareth Jones Welsh Studies in Public Law . Edited by J. A. Andrews The Scottish Debate : Essays on Scottish Nationalism . Edited by Neil Mac Cormick Asian Contract Law . Edited by David E. Allan Contract . By F. R. Davies . The Law of Contract . Third edition. By G. H. Treitel . Sutton and Shannon on Contracts . Seventh edition. Edited by Aubrey L. Diamond , W. R. Cornish , A. S. Grabiner and R. S. Nock .     

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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