Probate Practitioner's Handbook, 5th edn * By Professor Lesley King

This handbook, edited by Professor Lesley King, Principal lecturerat the college of Law, has been written by a select team     

A Practitioner's Guide to Trusts, 5th Edn * John Thurston LLB, Solicitor, TEP, Ed.

Text books on the law of trusts can be of two sorts. First,there is the long and erudite explanation on the theory of trustsdealing with equity and its history     

Parker's Modern Wills Precedents, 5th edn * By Michael Waterworth MA (Cantab)

Trusts set up by will, will trusts, are governed by similarconsiderations to those affecting inter vivos trusts. Frequentlyin trust textbooks the authors do not tell us that will trustshave some significant difference from inter vivos trusts. Thelatter may be set up quite informally by a mere declarationof intention and the transfer of the trust property to the trustees.But will trusts can only come about if the law relating to makinga valid will has been complied with. This tends to get overlookedunder the shadow of possible inheritance tax     

Trusts in prime jurisdictions * By Alon Kaplan and Barbara R Hauser, Eds

It is six years since the first edition of this book was reviewedin Trusts & Trustees (See Trusts & Trustees Volume 7,Issue 5, April 2001, pp. 30–33. The new edition reflectsmany of the changes in international trust jurisdictions. Geoffrey Shindler sets the scene in his preface. His commentthat we have barely seem to have drawn breath since that firstedition is reflected in the numerous new and revised chaptersof the book. In every jurisdiction where trusts are practised,he says, the overriding concern is the extent that our thoughtshave been dominated by regulation and anti-money launderingmeasures. The trust has been used as the scapegoat for the government'sinability to deal with crime—internal and external. Heuses succinct phrases in referring to the occasional assumptionby governments that: ‘trusts must, by definition, be involvedin money laundering in     

论诉讼信托和讨债信托的效力——探讨《信托法》第11条第4项

我国《信托法》第11条第4项规定,专以诉讼或者讨债为目的设立的信托无效。然而,该条文是对日本《信托法》移植的结果,我国并没有禁止诉讼信托和讨债信托的理由。同时,该条文容易被规避且难以被认定,在司法实践中缺乏适用的空间。再者,该条文不仅与我国现行的诸多法律条文和制度产生冲突,而且与我国减少社会不良资产和增强我国公民法律意识、维权意识的目的相违背,故应当删除。事实上,诉讼信托和讨债信托不仅符合信托设立的要求,而且能使债权人、债务人受益,并起到减少讼累等有利效果,因此,应当承认诉讼信托和讨债信托在我国的合法地位。     

行政法律义务与刑法规定义务的分野与衔接

浙江高院于2009年8月1日颁布《关于审理交通肇事刑事案件的若干意见》第二条第一款认为＂交通肇事后报警并保护事故现场,是道路交通安全法规定的被告人交通肇事后必须履行的义务。人民法院依法不应将交通肇事后报警并在肇事现场等候处理的行为重复评价为自动投案，从而认定被告人自首。”     

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments, 4th Edn * Adrian Briggs and Peter Rees, Eds

This fourth edition, three years after the previous edition,overall is approximately 100 pages longer. The cause of thisgrowth is not hard to find; the blame is fairly laid at thedoor of the EU where its Conventions have been revised and re-revisedtime and time again and now the Regulation of the EU's Councilwhich has resulted in a variety of new absurdities having tobe placed on top of the national jurisdictional rules internalto the United Kingdom (and, presumably, to those of each otherMember States of the EU). This was the state of affairs at thetime of the third edition, leading the authors to state in theirintroductory chapter that litigators live, in the language ofthe Chinese curse, in interesting times. It is now three years later and in the fourth edition we haveanother layer     

The International Trust, 2nd Ed, By John Glasson and Geraint Thomas, Eds

This new edition, a book edited by John Glasson and GeraintThomas, continues the aim of the first edition to provide, ina convenient single volume form, guidance to international trustpractitioners and litigators on a wide range of specialist topics. The material is largely derived from contributions to the loose-leafencyclopaedia, also published by Jordans—InternationalTrust Laws. These are the general     

A Review of A. John Simmons,Justification and Legitimacy: Essays on Rights and Obligations

Law and Philosophy -     

The Unification of Choice of Law Rules on Torts and Other Non-Contractual Obligations in Europe

Netherlands International Law Review -     

和谐社会观与依法治国

和谐社会观与依法治国在以人为本、维护人性尊严等方面存在着内在的联系。按照和谐社会观的要求进行系统的法治建设,是目前我国依法治国中面临的一个重要任务。     

Law,Morality, and the Existence of Human Rights*

In the debate between positivism and non‐positivism the argument from relativism plays a pivotal role. The argument from relativism, as put forward, for instance, by Hans Kelsen, says, first, that a necessary connection between law and morality presupposes the existence of absolute, objective, or necessary moral elements, and, second, that no such absolute, objective, or necessary moral elements exist. My reply to this is that absolute, objective, or necessary moral elements do exist, for human rights exist, and human rights exist because they are justifiable.     

19、20世纪的德国民法学

19、20世纪的德国民法学对包括我国在内的世界各国近现代民法立法和民法理论产生了重大影响。即使在今天,我国的民法研究在诸多方面仍然是围绕它而展开的。德国19、20世纪的民法学,大致可以分为四个时期:一是19世纪前半期的"法典论争"和"历史法学"时期;二是19世纪后半期的"概念法学和德国民法典"时期;三是20世纪前半期的"自由法运动"和"法社会学"时期;四是20世纪后半叶的"现代私法学"时期。研究德国19、20世纪的民法学,对于反思和总结我国今天的民法研究,把握未来民法学发展的方向,具有重要意义。     

The Logic of Time in Law and Legal Expert Systems*

Abstract. Research on an expert system regarding unemployment insurance law has pointed to the difficulties of explicitly representing temporal relations. The question has been addressed in the artificial intelligence literature with respect to planning systems and linguistic analysis. The approaches adopted do not appear to be directly transposable to legal discourse. The problem seems so far to have escaped notice amongst researchers attempting to develop legal expert systems. The paper explores in a preliminary way how lawyers use temporal concepts. It is submitted that “legal time” only partly overlaps with real time. A sketch of a formalization of temporal relations in law, following J. F. Allen's approach, is presented.