Law, 3rd Edition
A Very Short Introduction
$18.25
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2023
Summary
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 judgments and complex legislation.
In this Very Short Introduction, Raymond Wacks introduces the major branches of the law, describing what lawyer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192870506 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192870505 |
| Author: | Raymond Wacks |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 111mm x 174mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Critics Review
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 *
Raymond Wacks
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).
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