DISPUTES AND DIFFERENCES COMPARISONS IN LAWPDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

1.LAW 3

Studying Law 5

The Practical Effects of Some Recent Theoretical Developments in the Law of Contract 10

The Crisis of Contract 15

The Ratification of United Nations Covenants on Human Rights 27

Disarmament Now 35

Modern Society and Primitive Law 40

Clashes of Legal Cultures: Some Problems of Imposed Legal Systems 56

Poisoned by Pollution: an Account of Some Japanese Experiences 66

The Diplock Report on Mercenaries 79

Customary Law and Statute Law in the Pacific 84

The Reception of the Common Law and Equity in Papua New Guinea: the Problem of the Cut-off Date 93

Custom, Common Law and Constructive Judicial Lawmaking 102

Hypernationalism and Micronations: the Common Law,its Growth and Spread from Island to Islands 126

Is there a Common Law of the Commonwealth? 135

Financial Instruments 144

2.LANGUAGE 155

Law and Language: the Ethics of Ignorance 157

China and the Year Books, or a Large Number of Digressions on a Long Period in a Short Time 171

Language, Law and Truth 178

Law in a Foreign Language: the Hong Kong Experience 196

Reducing Mutual Misunderstanding: Problems and Possibilities of Translation 205

The Corporeity of a Cobweb: French in England Before AD 1204 215

Left Heel French: French in England Between 1204 and 1362 233

3.HISTORY 247

The Past is Another Country: Legal History as Comparative Law 249

Insights into Equity 262

Customary Law before the Conquest 273

Courts, Judges and Arbitrators in the Common Law 293

The Myth of Judicial Jealousy 300

Gerald Malynes, Arbitrator 312

Financing Foreign Trade: the Historical Background 318

The Influence of Traditional Morality on the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in China 326

Captain Charles Elliot RN, Arbitrator: Dispute Resolution in China Waters 1834-1836 348

‘Something so Unenglish’: Mediation and Arbitration in Hong Kong 1841-1865 378

The Myth of Modern Mediation 394

It’s Fun and it Matters: the Uses of Arbitration History 407

Insights from History: Relevant Now? 414

4.AFTERWORDS 429

Theory in Legal Theory 431

The Relation of Theory to Practice 434

Postscript 438

Chronological List of Publications 441

Bibliography 446

Index 465