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Law: A Very Short Introduction (3nd edition) [#180]
Law: A Very Short Introduction (3nd edition) [#180]

Law: A Very Short Introduction (3nd edition) [#180]

Author: 
Raymond Wacks
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  • Provides a general account of legal systems around the world from the earliest beginnings to the present - and the future
  • Examines the future of the law in the face of a number of contemporary challenges including the threat of terrorism, surveillance, and the impact of the Internet
  • Looks beyond domestic law to examine how international law is used to settle disputes between states, punish malevolent dictators, and create a better world

New to this edition

  • In this new edition, the author considers a number of social and political events that have had an impact on the law, including the COVID-19 pandemic, surveillance, and the killing of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement
           
Law is at the heart of every society, protecting rights, imposing duties, and establishing a framework for the conduct of almost all social, political, and economic activity. Despite this, the law often seems a highly technical, perplexing mystery, with its antiquated and often impenetrable jargon, obsolete procedures, and endless stream of complex statutes and legislation.
    
In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks introduces the major branches of the law, describing what lawyers do, and how courts operate, and considers the philosophy of law and its pursuit of justice, freedom, and equality. Wacks locates the discipline in our contemporary world, considering the pressures of globalization and digitalization and the nature of the law in our culture of threatened security and surveillance. In this new edition, the author considers a number of social and political events that have had an impact on the law, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the growth of social media and surveillance, and the increasing threats to the rule of law.
Index: 

1: Law's roots
2: Law's branches
3: Law and morality
4: Courts
5: Lawyers
6: The future of law
Further reading
Index

About the author: 

Raymond Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong
   

Raymond Wacks is Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of sixteen books which have been translated into a dozen languages. They include Personal Information: Privacy and the Law (1989, OUP); Privacy and Media Freedom (2013, OUP); Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (2015, OUP); and Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction, (2014, OUP). His recent publications include Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered (2020), COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age (2021), and National Security in the New World Order: Government and the Technology of Information (with Andrea Monti).

"This is a beautifully and magisterially written VSI, a full law school in a book!" - Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine

Product details

ISBN : 9780192870506

Author: 
Raymond Wacks
Pages
208 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
May 2023
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Law: A Very Short Introduction (3nd edition) [#180]

Law: A Very Short Introduction (3nd edition) [#180]

Law: A Very Short Introduction (3nd edition) [#180]