A Kantian (re)turn: Aesthetics,postmodernism and law

A review essay of P. Crowther,The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989); P. Crowther,Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993); P. Crowther,Art and Embodiment: From Aesthetics to Self-Consciousness (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).     

Review essay / “a constitution for a religious and moral people”: Greenawalt and perry on politics and religion

Kent Greenawalt, Religious Convictions and Political Choice New York Oxford University Press, 1988. Michael J. Perry, Morality, Politics and Law New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.     

Review essay / Reform and realism

Larry W. Yackle, Reform and Regret: The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xii+322 pp.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: D. Attard, The Exclusive Economic Zone in International Law. M.D. Evans, Relevant Circumstances and Maritime Delimitation. Brian D. Smith, State Responsibility and the Marine Environment. G. Westerman, The Juridical Bay, Oxford: Oxford University Press. J. Braithwaite and P. Pettit, Not Just Desert: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice.     

Review essay / justice,mercy, and forgiveness

Jeffrie G Murphy & Jean Hampton, Forgiveness and Mercy Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 194 pp. Kathleen Dean Moore, Pardons: Justice, Mercy, and the Public Interest New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, 271 pp.     

Book review

Abstract

Armed Robbery: A Study in London. By Shona Morrison and Ian O'Donnell. Occasional Paper No. 15. Oxford: University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research. 1994. ISBN 0 947811 05 2. Softback 12.50.     

Reviews

Keith Hawkins (ed), The Uses of Discretion , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, xiii + 431 pp, hb £45.00. Andrew Bainham with Stephen Cretney, Children: The Modern Law Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan and Robert Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology Jaime Oraa, Human Rights in States of Emergency in International Law Joan Fitzpatrick, Human Rights in Crisis: The International System for Protecting Human Rights During States of Emergency Stephen M. Schwebel, Justice in International Law J. Eekelaar and M. Maclean (eds), A Reader on Family Law     

Deception by police

John Braithwaite and Philip Pettit, Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1990, vii + 229 pp.     

A Philosophy of Provocation?

Jeremy Horder, Provocation and Responsibility Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, pp xvi and 208 pp, hb £25.00.     

Understanding Law as a Democratic Institution Through US Constitutional Development

Gillman, Howard, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington. 2012 . American Constitutionalism: Volume I: Structures of Government . New York: Oxford University Press. Gillman, Howard, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington. 2012 . American Constitutionalism: Volume II: Rights and Liberties . New York: Oxford University Press. This essay reviews Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume I: Structures of Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), and Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume II: Rights and Liberties (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). It defends developmental approaches in the study of US constitutional law. It explains how law has been studied in political science, illustrating how political development became part of the story. It outlines how American political development approaches work when applied to law, noting how studying law transforms these approaches. It notes the insights produced through the blending of American political development and constitutional law, explaining how these insights provide more leverage for understanding the role of courts as democratic institutions. The essay closes by discussing the promising directions these approaches suggest, defending their value beyond political science.     

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 appointments clause: Judge Bork and the role of ideology in judicial confirmations

The Law of Obligations: The Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition. Reinhard Zimmermann. Cape Town: 1990. Ixiv + 1241pp. (incl. Indexes).

Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830–1914. Martin J. Wiener. Cambridge, 1991. The University Press, ix + 390pp. (incl. Index). £35/$39.50 hb. ISBN 0 521 35045 X.

Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England, Lucia Zedner. Oxford, 1991. Clarenden Press. 364pp. (incl. Index). £40 hb. ISBN 0 19 820264 4.

St Albans Quarter Sessions Rolls 1784–1820. Edited with an Introduction by David Dean. Hitchen, 1991. Hertfordshire Record Publications, xx + 197pp. (incl. Indexes). £15.95 hb. ISBN 0 9510728 6 2.

The Background of the Common Law. Derek Roebuck. 2nd edn. Hong Kong, Oxford and New York, 1990. Oxford University Press, ix + 143pp. (incl. Index). £6.99 pb. ISBN 019 585165 X.

The Physician‐Legislators of France: Medicine and Politics in the Early Third Republic, 1870–1914. Jack D. Ellis. Cambridge, 1990. The University Press, xii + 305pp. (incl. Index). £35.00/$49.50 hb. ISBN 0 521 38208 4.

Combination and Conspiracy: A Legal History of Trade Unionism 1721–1906. John V. Orth. Oxford, 1991. Clarendon Press, xvi + 207pp. (incl. Index). £30hb. ISBN 0 19 825299 4.

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Union Movement. William E. Forbath. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1991. Harvard University Press, xvi + 211pp. (incl. Index). ISBN 0 674 517814.

The State, Law and Religion: Pagan Rome, Alanwatson. Athens, Georgia, 1992. University of Georgia Press, xv + 136pp. (incl. Index). $30 hb. ISBN 0820313874.

American Constitutional Rights: Cases, Documents, and Commentary. William A. Carroll and Norman B. Smith. Lanham, USA. 1991. University Press of America, Inc. xviii + 785pp.     

The Process is the Rule and the Punishment is the Process

Andrew Ashworth, The Criminal Process: An Evaluative Study , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, 315 pp, hb £45.00, pb £12.95. Andrew Sanders and Richard Young, Criminal Justice , London: Butterworths, 1994, 496 pp, pb £18.95.     

Unsettling settlements

Law, Land and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800. Eileen spring. Chapel Hill and London. 1993. University of North Carolina Press. 199pp.

Marriage, Debt and the Estates System: English Landownership 1650–1950 John Habakkuk. Oxford. 1994. The Clarendon Press. xi + 786 pp.     

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

Abstract

TWELVE WOMEN DETECTIVE STORIES, edited by Laura Marcus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Reviewed by Frankie Y. Bailey.

MURDER MOST RARE: THE FEMALE SERIAL KILLER, by Michael D. Kelleher and C. L. Kelleher. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Reviewed by Frankie Y. Bailey.     

Corporate Governance: A Defence of the Status Quo

J.E. Parkinson, Corporate Power and Responsibility: Issues in the Theory of Company Law , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, xxv + 464 pp, hb £50.00, pb £19.95.     

Competition Law Fragmentation in a Globalizing World

Beaton‐Wells, Caron, and Ariel Ezrachi (eds.). 2011 . Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement . Oxford: Hart Publishing. Pp. xvi + 455. Gerber, David J. 2010 . Global Competition: Law, Markets, and Globalization . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xx + 394. Lianos, Ioannis, and D. Daniel Sokol (eds.). 2012 . The Global Limits of Competition Law . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Pp. xiv + 282. This is a review essay of Caron Beaton‐Wells and Ariel Ezrachi (eds.), Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement ( 2011 ); David J. Gerber, Global Competition: Law, Markets, and Globalization (2010); and Ioannis Lianos and D. Daniel Sokol (eds.), The Global Limits of Competition Law ( 2012 ). It explores the fragmented nature of national competition laws in the context of globalization and several harmonizing trends: the defining role of economics, the strong influence of US antitrust economics and law internationally, and the relative insularity of competition law from other subdisciplines of law. The recent emergence of competition regimes, especially in the BRICS countries, challenges these harmonizing trends, reducing US hegemony. Economics will remain central but cultural and institutional factors that reflect societal values will become more significant. This leads to a contradiction of convergence as to the benefits of competition law internationally and continuing fragmentation along national lines.     

REVIEWS

Stephen Livingstone and Tim Owen, Prison Law: Text and Materials, Oxford Michael Forde, The Law of Company Insolvency, Dublin Nigel Maw, Lord Lane of Horsell and Sir Michael Craig-Cooper, Maw on Corporate Governance, Aldershot Nasser Arshadi and Thomas Eyssell, The Law and Finance of Corporate Insider Trading Philip I. Blumberg, The Multinational Challenge to Corporation Law: The Search for a New Corporate Personality A.B. Wilkinson and K. McK. Norrie, Parent and Child