Unit One Nature,Function and Functioning of Law 1
Unit Two Major Legal Systems and Traditions 7
Unit Three Mature of Contracts 17
Unit Four Classes of Contracts 27
Unit Five Labour Law 39
Unit Six Precedent and Stare Decisis 48
Unit Seven Case Analysis 57
Unit Eight Divisions of Law (Ⅰ)Public Law 64
Unit Nine Divisrons of Law (Ⅱ)Private Law 74
Unit Ten Judicial Organizalion 90
Unit Eleven Judicial Process 100
Unit Twelve Classificaton of Offences 105
Unit Tbirteen Classifiction of Judicial Evidnce 118
Unit Fourteen Too Many Lawyers? 123
Unit Fifteen "Plea Bargaining Should Be Abohshed" 131
Unit Sixteen Torts 139
Unit Seventeen Chins Mational Technical Import /Export Corportion v. Industrial Resources Co. Inc. 151
Unit Eighteen Personal Property and Their Protection 161
Unit Nineteen Kind of Paper and Parlles 178
Unit Twenty Mernorandum of Association 189
Unit Twenty-one Administrative Law 202
Unit Twenty-two Constitutional Principles 208
Unit Twenty-three Contemporary Civil Law 216
Unit Twenty-four The Sources of Intcrmational Law 224
Unit Twenty-five Weighted Voting 243
Unit Twenty-six Conlhct of Laws 250
Unit Twenty-seven The Transnational Law of Trade and Commerce(Ⅰ) 259
Unit Twenty-eight The Transnational Law of Trade and Commerce(Ⅱ) 267
Unit Twenty-nine Dispute Settlement by Arbitration 281
Unit Thirty Protecting the Environment 292
附录二 练习参考答案 319
主要参考书目 324
附录一 法律词汇英汉对照 表 325