coll. Thémis, 450 p.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Cet ouvrage présente la particularité, par rapport aux autres titres similaires présents sur le marché, d’être un ouvrage transversal d’introduction, aussi bien au droit privé qu’au droit public. Il présente une dimension internationale importante, en expliquant précisément la place et le rôle des sources internationales du droit. Il décrit de façon précise les bases du système juridique, notamment les sources du droit ou encore l’organisation juridictionnelle, mais il propose aussi une réflexion sur ce qu’est le droit et sa philosophie. Il montre aussi les transformations récentes du droit, qui conduisent à repenser la notion même de normativité. Ce manuel contient enfin des conseils méthodologiques précis à l’attention des étudiants, et ce à propos des principaux types d’exercices qui sont proposés en droit.

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Introduction

Première partie : La notion de droit

Chapitre 1 : Le droit et les autres systèmes normatifs
Chapitre 2 : Le fait et le droit
Chapitre 3 : La règle de droit
Chapitre 4 : Le raisonnement en droit
Chapitre 5 : Le droit comparé
Chapitre 6 : L’interdisciplinarité en droit

Deuxième partie : Les sources du droit

Titre 1 : Les sources instituées
Chapitre 1 : La Constitution
Chapitre 2 : Les sources internationales
Chapitre 3 : La loi
Chapitre 4 : Les règlements
Titre 2 : Les sources pratiques
Chapitre 1 : La jurisprudence
Chapitre 2 : Les usages
Chapitre 3 : Les conventions
Chapitre 4 : Les actes unilatéraux privés
Titre 3 : La doctrine

Troisième partie : Les fondements du droit

Titre 1 : Les origines historiques du droit
Titre 2 : Les fondements dogmatiques du droit
Chapitre 1 : L’axiologie juridique
Chapitre 2 : La philosophie du droit
Chapitre 3 : L’anthropologie dogmatique
Chapitre 4 : La fonction anthropologique du droit
Titre 3 : Les grandes catégories du droit
Chapitre 1 : Les personnes
Chapitre 2 : Les choses
Chapitre 3 : Les droits
Chapitre 4 : Les actions

Quatrième partie : Les pouvoirs publics

Chapitre 1 : L’organisation institutionnelle
Chapitre 2 : Les finalités de l’action publique

Cinquième partie : La justice

Titre 1 : La justice judiciaire
Chapitre 1 : L’organisation juridictionnelle judiciaire
Chapitre 2 : Le fonctionnement de la justice judiciaire
Titre 1 : La justice administrative
Chapitre 1 : La raison d’être des juridictions administratives
Chapitre 2 : L’organisation de la justice administrative
Chapitre 3 : Le déroulement d’un procès administratif
Titre 3 : La justice politique
Titre 4 : Les juridictions internationales

Sixième partie : L’apprentissage du droit

Chapitre 1 : Le cas pratique
Chapitre 2 : Le commentaire d’arrêt
Chapitre 3 : Le commentaire de texte
Chapitre 4 : La dissertation

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Coll. Studies in the History of Tax Law, 552 pages

Présentation de l'éditeur

These are the papers from the 8th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference held in July 2016. In the usual manner, these papers have been selected from an oversupply of proposals for their interest and relevance, and scrutinised and edited to the highest standard for inclusion in this prestigious series. 

The papers fall within five basic themes: Two papers focus on tax theory; one on John Locke and another on the impact of English tax literature in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. Five deal with the history of UK specific interpretational issues in varying contexts – an ancient exemption, insurance companies, special contribution, the profits tax GAAR and capital gains tax. Two more papers consider aspects of HMRC operations. Another three focus on facets of international taxation, including treaties between the UK and European countries, treaties between the UK and developing countries and the UN model tax treaties of 1928. The book also incorporates a range of interesting topics from other countries, including the introduction of income tax in Ireland and in Chile, post-war income taxation in Australia, early interpretation of 'income' in New Zealand and a discussion of some early indirect taxes in India and China.

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1. John Locke: Property, Tax and the Private Sphere
John Snape and Jane Frecknall-Hughes

2. The Birth of Tax as a Legal Discipline
Hans Gribnau and Henk Vording

3. The Curious Case of Mr Trull
Sir John Baker

4. The Architecture of Tax Administration: Function or Form?
Chantal Stebbings

5. Let Them Pay For Their Starvation: The Imposition of Income Tax on Ireland in 1853
Peter Clarke

6. Not Like Grocers
Richard Thomas

7. The Life and Times of ESCs: A Defence?
Stephen Daly

8. The Special Contribution of 1948
John HN Pearce

9. The Profits Tax GAAR: An Aid in the 'Hopeless' Defence Against the Dark Arts
Peter Harris

10. Statutory Interpretation in Early Capital Gains Tax Cases
Philip Ridd

11. The UK's Early Tax Treaties with European Countries
John F Avery Jones

12. The 'Great Powers' and the Development of the 1928 Model Tax Treaties
Sunita Jogarajan

13. The UK's Tax Treaties with Developing Countries during the 1970s
Martin Hearson

14. From Wartime Expedient to Enduring Element of Fiscal Federalism: Centralised Income Taxation in Australia since World War II
Richard Krever and Peter Mellor

15. The Historical Meaning of 'Income' in New Zealand Taxation Statutes, Cases and Administration, 1891–1925
Shelley Griffiths

16. When Minerals are not Enough: The Origins of Income Taxation in Chile and their Importance to the Current Situation
Maximiliano Boada

17. Cesses in the Indian Tax Regime: A Historical Analysis
Ashrita Kotha

18. The State Salt Monopoly in China: Ancient Origins and Modern Implications
Yan Xu

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The term ‘judicial activism’ is seemingly ubiquitous in Australia and the United States today. Prominent public figures, from politicians to cardinals, commentators to business executives, have used this terminology to condemn superior courts and certain judicial outcomes. In Australia, High Court decisions on matters such as native title, property law and the interpretation of Australian history (for instance, Mabo); constitutional rights; the law of negligence; and migration law have been attacked in some quarters as being ‘undemocratic’ and ‘activist’, and as exemplifying the growing elitism of higher court judges. In the United States, decisions relating to reproductive rights; gun laws; school prayer; racial segregation and the interpretation of American history (for instance, Brown v Board of Education) have also been criticised on this basis. Yet as the judicial activism critique is increasingly adopted by the popular media, many lawyers and judges are hesitant to engage with the terminology, seeing it as nothing more than an empty pejorative.

What is judicial activism? What are the origins of the terminology? Who has been accused of practising activism? This book provides a history of the term ‘judicial activism’, from its inception as a historian’s catchphrase in the United States in the 1940s, to its nursery years in the universities, and finally, to its more recent manifestation in both Australia and the United States as part of election campaigns and the politics of anti-elitism. Covering diverse topics such as constitutional scholarship, the ‘history wars’ in Australia, and United States Presidential campaigns, The Campaign Against the Courts also charts the migration of the debate over judicial activism from the United States to Australia over the past 25 years.

For those interested in law, politics and history, The Campaign Against the Courts provides a narrative account of one of the most controversial topics in law-making today.

256 pages

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Introduction

Part I: The United States

1. The Origins of the Judicial Activism Terminology
2. From Description to Slogan: The Activist/Self-Restraint Divide in US Public Debate

Part II: Australia

3. ‘Strict and Complete Legalism’ in the High Court of Australia
4. The History Wars and the High Court
5. Judicial Activism as Elitism: Wik, the Implied Rights Cases and Beyond

Epilogue: Judicial Activism in Australia Today

Coll. Global Perspectives on Legal History, 176 pages

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Antiquity is often utilized as a reference to provide a historical dimension for contemporary phenomena. This also holds true for the prevailing scientific discourse on alternative or adequate remedies of dispute resolution. In this context, historical perspectives seem to be in vogue as narratives to legitimize one or another role model, whereas studies on practical examples from ancient legal orders tend not to be given serious consideration in the current debate.

Just as in the case of contemporary legal research, ancient legal history also distinguishes litigation at court from other mechanisms of conflict resolution. Nevertheless, where do the boundaries of judicial and extra-judicial mechanisms of dispute resolution lie within the framework of ancient societies? Are they alternatives in a narrower sense? Is there evidence for concerning the reason there was no (or at least no exclusive) judicial decision? This volume offers a selection of studies of pertinent illustrative material pertaining to these questions. While the relevant sources stemming from the prehistorical period, the Ancient Near East, Hellenistic Egypt and Classical Roman law may vary greatly, this just serves to widen our perspective on ancient times.

Heidi Peter-Röcher focuses on strategies of conflict resolution in prehistoric times corresponding to different forms of violence. Hans Neumann, Susanne Paulus, Lena Fijałkowska and Alessandro Hirata delve into case studies situated in the Ancient Near East from Sumerian to Neo-Babylonian times. Three other contributions examine Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Marc Depauw considers non-Greek, i.e., demotic, material from a Hellenistic kingdom, Anna Seelentag embraces the phenomenon of public clamour in the Roman Republic, and Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler provides a fresh look at the classical arbitration from the perspective of ancient legal history.

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1.Guido Pfeifer, Nadine Grotkamp
Einführung

9. Heidi Peter-Röcher
Konfliktlösungsstrategien in prähistorischer Zeit

27. Hans Neumann
Zum außergerichtlichen Vergleich in Mesopotamien in der Zeit der Wende vom 3. zum 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.

43. Susanne Paulus
Außergerichtliche (?) Maßnahmen in mittelbabylonischer Zeit

73. Lena Fijałkowska
Außergerichtliche Konfliktlösung im spätbronzezeitlichen Syrien im Lichte der Dokumente aus Emar und Ekalte

83. Alessandro Hirata
Neubabylonische Zeit: Prozessrecht und (seltene) Beispiele der außergerichtlichen Konfliktlösung

93. Mark Depauw
Conflict Solving Strategies in Late Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt:
the Demotic Evidence

105. Anna Margarete Seelentag
Das convicium als Beispiel außergerichtlicher Konfliktlösung in Rom

141. Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler
Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit und außergerichtliche Konfliktbereinigung im klassischen römischen Recht

169. Contributors